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  1. It’s not how much power leaders want - but how they use it

    Article • Motivation Science, July 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann, Kerstin Neumann

  2. The legacy of Julius Kuhl: Building bridges and crossing boundaries between topics, theories, and times.

    Article • Motivation Science, March 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  3. Development and validation of the Self-Awareness of Ego-Threatening Biases Questionnaire (SAETBQ)

    Article • PLOS One, July 2025, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  4. Up for the challenge: Power motive congruence drives nurses to craft their jobs and experience well-being

    Article • PLOS One, October 2024, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  5. Intimidating or Friendly? How Players Represent Themselves With Character Appearances That Reflect Their Social Motivations

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  6. Cheat Codes as External Support for Players Navigating Fear of Failure and Self-Regulation Challenges In Digital Games

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  7. Not Tekken Seriously? How Observers Respond to Masculine and Feminine Voices in Videogame Streamers

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  8. Seek What You Need

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  9. Prepare for Trouble and Make It Double: The Power Motive Predicts Pokémon Choices Based on Apparent Strength

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  10. Power Play: How the Need to Empower or Overpower Other Players Predicts Preferences in League of Legends

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  11. The Firepower of Work Craving: When Self-Control Is Burning under the Rubble of Self-Regulation

    Article • PLOS One, January 2017, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  12. Schoolbook Texts: Behavioral Achievement Priming in Math and Language

    Article • PLOS One, March 2016, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  13. Do I feel ill because I crave for work or do I crave for work because I feel ill? A longitudinal analysis of work craving, self-regulation, and health

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, March 2016, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  14. Flow and enjoyment beyond skill-demand balance: The role of game pacing curves and personality

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  15. The Effects of Social Exclusion on Play Experience and Hostile Cognitions in Digital Games

    Article • January 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  16. Enjoying influence on others: Congruently high implicit and explicit power motives are related to teachers’ well-being

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  17. When death is not a problem: Regulating implicit negative affect under mortality salience

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, September 2015, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  18. Guiding others for their own good: Action orientation is associated with prosocial enactment of the implicit power motive

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  19. Testing the convergent and discriminant validity of three implicit motive measures: PSE, OMT, and MMG

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  20. Effects of Implicit Failure Priming on Cognitive and Motor Performance in Elementary School Children

    Article • Swiss Journal of Psychology, January 2015, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  21. Live to Work or Love to Work: Work Craving and Work Engagement

    Article • PLOS One, October 2014, PLOS

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  22. The relation of flow-experience and physiological arousal under stress — Can u shape it?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, July 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  23. Selbstregulation von Emotionen als Schutzfaktor gegen gesundheitliche Auswirkungen von Mobbing

    Article • Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie, January 2014, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  24. Does achievement motivation mediate the semantic achievement priming effect?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  25. Work Craving: A Conceptualization and Measurement

    Article • Basic and Applied Social Psychology, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  26. The stories children’s books tell us: Motive-related imagery in children’s books and their relation to academic performance and crime rates

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, August 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  27. Failure cue priming and impaired cognitive performance-analyses of avoidance motivation as a mediator and fear of failure as a moderator

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, June 2013, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  28. You Are Not Alone

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2013, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  29. Do Demanding Conditions Help or Hurt Self-Regulation?

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, April 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  30. Seeing and mastering difficulty: The role of affective change in achievement flow

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  31. Seeking flow in the achievement domain: The achievement flow motive behind flow experience

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  32. You can’t always remember what you want: The role of cortisol in self-ascription of assigned goals

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, December 2009, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  33. Affect sensitivity and affect regulation in dealing with positive and negative affect

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, February 2007, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  34. Motivation und Gesundheit

    Article • Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie, April 2006, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  35. Left-Hemispheric Activation and Self-Infiltration: Testing a Neuropsychological Model of Internalization

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, September 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  36. Positive Affect and Flexibility: Overcoming the Precedence of Global over Local Processing of Visual Information

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  37. How to Resist Temptation: The Effects of External Control Versus Autonomy Support on Self-Regulatory Dynamics

    Article • Journal of Personality, April 2005, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  38. Self-Regulation After Mortality Salience

    Article • European Psychologist, January 2005, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  39. Striving for Unwanted Goals: Stress-Dependent Discrepancies Between Explicit and Implicit Achievement Motives Reduce Subjective Well-Being and Increase Psychosomatic Symptoms.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  40. Self-Infiltration: Confusing Assigned Tasks as Self-Selected in Memory

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2003, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  41. Article • Motivation and Emotion, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann

  42. Intuition, affect, and personality: Unconscious coherence judgments and self-regulation of negative affect.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Nicola Baumann