Wächtergasse 1
1010 Wien
Room: 509
T: +43-1-4277-47322
veronika.job@univie.ac.at
Key topics
- Determinants, processes, and outcomes of goal-striving, self-regulation, and self-control
- Management of effort and self-control: Effects of preceding tasks and learning history
- Lay theories/mindsets: How they affect self-regulation, interpersonal relationships, well-being
- Implicit and explicit motives and attitudes (assessment, incongruence)
Publications
Jankowski JM, Sik K, Job Sutnar V. The relationship between lay beliefs about the world and pandemic-related beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. PLoS ONE. 2025 Dec;20(12):e0338367. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0338367
Roth L, Job Sutnar V, Titz C, Meindl D, Mlynski C. And Yet They Tire: Cognitive Fatigue Facilitates Task Disengagement and Worsens Performance. Motivation Science. 2025 Nov 17. Epub 2025 Nov 17. doi: 10.1037/mot0000415
Job Sutnar V, Mlynski C, Bauer C. How rethinking difficulties can shape important life outcomes. Trends in Cognitive Science. 2025 Nov;29(11):1048-1060. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.018
Mlynski C, Goschke T, Korb FM, Job V. The motivational consequences of boredom. Cognition and Emotion. 2025 Oct 10;1-10. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2568554
Kraus J, Mlynski C, Hartmann F, Clay G, Goschke T, Silani G et al. The pleasure of effort: Cognitive challenges trigger hedonic physiological responses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2025 Apr;1546(1):100-111. doi: 10.1111/nyas.15323
Roth LHO, Job V, Titz C, Meindl D, Mlynski C. And yet They Tire: Cognitive Fatigue Facilitates Task Disengagement and Worsens Performance. OSF Preprints. 2025 Mar 17. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/s5jmb_v1
Mlynski C, Clay G, Sik K, Jankowski J, Job V. Because it is fun! Individual differences in effort enjoyment belief relate to behavioral and physiological indicators of effort-seeking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2025 Mar 3;pspa0000443. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000443
Mlynski C, Roth L, Loschelder D, Gieseler K, Job V, Friese M. Self-Control Following Prior Exertion: An Empirical Test of the Motivational Shift and Compensatory Effort Hypotheses. Collabra: Psychology. 2025 Jan 30;11(1):128616. doi: 10.1525/collabra.128616
Bauer C, Walton GM, Job Sutnar V, Stephens N. The Strengths of People in Low-SES Positions: An Identity-Reframing Intervention Improves Low-SES Students' Achievement Over One Semester. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2025 Jan;16(1):45-55. doi: 10.1177/19485506241284806
Job V, Mlynski C, Nikitin J. Challenging the law of least effort. Current Opinion in Psychology. 2024 Dec;60:101881. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101881
Jankowski JM, Mlynski C, Job V. Just a drop in the ocean? How lay beliefs about the world influence efficacy, perceptions, and intentions regarding pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2024 Dec;100:102445. Epub 2024 Oct 1. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102445
Jankowski JM, Mlynski C, Prinz T, Job V. Saving the environment? That is beyond my (will)power! Motivation Science. 2024 Nov 18;mot0000379. doi: 10.1037/mot0000379
Francis Z, Weidmann R, Bühler J, Burriss R, Wünsche J, Grob A et al. My willpower belief and yours: Investigating dyadic associations between willpower beliefs, social support, and relationship satisfaction in couples. European Journal of Personality. 2024 Sept;38(5):778-792. Epub 2023 Dec. doi: 10.1177/08902070231220416
Bauer C, Job Sutnar V. Double disadvantage: Female first-generation-students think of themselves as least talented, contributing to disproportionate disadvantage. Learning and Instruction. 2024 Apr;90:101865. doi: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101865
Sik K, Cummins J, Job Sutnar V. An implicit measure of growth mindset uniquely predicts post-failure learning behavior. Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group). 2024 Feb 14;14(1):3761. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-52916-5
Mlynski C, Mueller S, Napolitano C, Job Sutnar V. A backup plan for life? Alternative Life paths facilitate disengagement in an action crisis. Motivation and Emotion. 2024 Feb;48(1):66-74. doi: 10.1007/s11031-023-10052-z
Goschke T, Job Sutnar V. The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 2023 Nov;18(6):1339-1367. doi: 10.1177/17456916221146158
Bauer C, Job Sutnar V, Hannover B. Who gets to see themselves as talented? Biased self-concepts contribute to first-generation students’ disadvantage in talent-focused environments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 2023 Sept;108:104501. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104501
Bernecker K, Job Sutnar V. Mindset-Theorie. In Sassenberg K, Vliek M, editors, Sozialpsychologie: Von der Theorie zur Anwendung: Mindset-Theorie. Cham: Springer. 2023. p. 195-209 doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-17529-9_12
Jankowski JM, Job Sutnar V. The role of lay beliefs about willpower and daily demands in day-to-day pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2023 Apr;88:102024. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102024