Wächtergasse 1
1010 Wien
Room: 506
T: +43-1-4277-47322
veronika.job@univie.ac.at
Research Areas
- 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, 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 Jun;88:102024. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102024
Clay G, Mlynski C, Korb FM, Goschke T, Job V. Rewarding cognitive effort increases the intrinsic value of mental labor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022 Feb 1;119(5):e2111785119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2111785119
Primoceri P, Ramer N, Ulrich J, Job Sutnar V. The role of task similarity for ego depletion: A registered report. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 2021 Jul;95:104133. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104133
Francis Z, Mata J, Flückiger L, Job V. Morning resolutions, evening disillusions: Theories of willpower affect how health behaviours change across the day. European Journal of Personality. 2021 May 1;35(3):398-415. doi: 10.1177/0890207020962304
Francis Z, Job V. Intended responses to romantic partners’ annoying behaviours vary with willpower beliefs. British Journal of Psychology. 2021 May;112(2):549-564. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12475
Gieseler K, Loschelder DD, Job V, Friese M. A preregistered test of competing theories to explain ego depletion effects using psychophysiological indicators of mental effort. Motivation Science. 2021 Mar;7(1):32-45. doi: 10.1037/mot0000183
Compagnoni M, Sieber V, Job Sutnar V. My Brain Needs a Break: Kindergarteners’ Willpower Theories Are Related to Behavioral Self-Regulation. Frontiers in Psychology. 2020 Dec 16;11:601724. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.601724
Maio SD, Keller J, Job V, Felsenberg D, Ertel W, Schwarzer R et al. Health demands moderate the link between willpower beliefs and physical activity in patients with knee osteoarthritis. International journal of behavioral medicine. 2020 Aug;27(4):406–414. doi: 10.1007/s12529-020-09865-w
K. G, Loschelder DD, Job Sutnar V, Friese M. A pre-registered test of competing theories to explain ego depletion effects using psychophysiological indicators of mental effort. 2020. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/ufk52
Francis Z, Sieber V, Job Sutnar V. You seem tired, but so am I: Willpower theories and intention to provide support in romantic relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 2020 Mar;37(3):738-757.
Bernecker K, Job Sutnar V. Too exhausted to go to bed: Implicit theories about willpower and stress predict bedtime procrastination. British Journal of Psychology. 2020 Feb;111(1):126-147. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12382
Schreiber M, Job Sutnar V, Dohle S. Is your health malleable or fixed? The influence of implicit theories on health-related attitudes and behaviour. Psychology & Health. 2020;35(12):1421-1439. Epub 2020 May 13. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2020.1761975
Allemand M, Job Sutnar V, Mroczek DK. Self-control development in adolescence predicts love and work in adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2019 Sep;117(3):621–634. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000229
Sieber V, Flückiger L, Mata J, Bernecker K, Job Sutnar V. Autonomous Goal Striving Promotes a Nonlimited Theory About Willpower. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2019 Aug;45(8):1295-1307. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0146167218820921
Bernecker K, Job V, Hofmann W. Experience, Resistance, and Enactment of Desires: Differential Relationships With Trait Measures Predicting Self-Control. Journal of Research in Personality. 2018 Oct;76:92-101. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2018.07.007
Job V, Sieber V, Rothermund K, Nikitin J. Age differences in implicit theories about willpower: Why older people endorse a nonlimited theory. Psychology and aging. 2018 Sep;33(6):940-952. doi: 10.1037/pag0000285
Napolitano CM, Job Sutnar V. Assessing the Implicit Theory of Willpower for Strenuous Mental Activities Scale: Multigroup, across-gender, and cross-cultural measurement invariance and convergent and divergent validity. Psychological Assessment. 2018 Aug;30(8):1049–1064. doi: 10.1037/pas0000557
Francis Z, Job V. Lay theories of willpower. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 2018 Apr;12(4):e12381. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12381
Friese M, Frankenbach J, Job Sutnar V, Loschelder D. Does Self-Control Training Improve Self-Control? A Meta-Analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 2017 Nov;12(6):1077-1099. doi: 10.1177/1745691617697076
Savani K, Job Sutnar V. Reverse ego-depletion: Acts of self-control can improve subsequent performance in Indian cultural contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2017 Oct;113(4):589–607. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000099