Becker, Daniela; Bernecker, Katharina (2024). Happy Hour: The association between trait hedonic capacity and motivation to drink alcohol. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 19, S. 100537. 10.1016/j.abrep.2024.100537

Bernecker, Katharina; Becker, Daniela; Weitkamp, Katharina; Wehrli, Fabienne (2024). Trait hedonic capacity correlates with sexual pleasure and motives for sexualized drug use in young adults. Current Psychology, 43 (27), S. 23278-23294. 10.1007/s12144-024-06017-1

Becker, Daniela; Bernecker, Katharina (2023). Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: Indulging in harmless pleasures can support self-regulation and foster cooperation (Im Druck). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46. 10.1017/S0140525X23000456

Scharinger, Christian; Prislan, Laura; Bernecker, Katharina; Ninaus, Manuel (2023). Gamification of an n-back working memory task – Is it worth the effort? An EEG and eye-tracking study. Biological Psychology, 179, S. 108545. 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108545

Bernecker, Katharina; Becker, Daniela; Guobyte, Aiste (2023). If the party is good, you can stay longer—effects of trait hedonic capacity on hedonic quantity and performance. Motivation and Emotion, 47 (5), S. 711-725. 10.1007/s11031-023-10021-6

Bernecker, Katharina (2023). Mindset-Theorie. In: Social Psychology in Action (S. 195-209). Springer 10.1007/978-3-031-17529-9_12

Kukowski, Charlotte A.; Bernecker, Katharina; Nielsen, Kristian S.; Hofmann, Wilhelm; Brandstätter, Veronika (2023). Regulate me! Self-control dissatisfaction in meat reduction success relates to stronger support for behavior-regulating policy. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 85, S. 101922. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101922

Becker, Daniela; Bernecker, Katharina (2023). The Role of Hedonic Goal Pursuit in Self-Control and Self-Regulation: Is Pleasure the Problem or Part of the Solution? Affective Science, 4 (3), S. 470-474. 10.1007/s42761-023-00193-2

Kukowski, Charlotte A.; Bernecker, Katharina (2023). Which factors shape public climate policy support? A social-motivational perspective. In: Reese, Gerhard; Römpke, Anne-Kristin; Bernd, Asja; Dolderer, Christoph; Mues, Andreas W. (Hg.) The Puzzle of Transformation. Impulses from Environmental Psychological Research. BfN-Schriften: Vol. 658 (S. 51-60). Bonn: Bundesamt für Naturschutz

Kukowski, Charlotte A.; Bernecker, Katharina; von der Heyde, Leoni; Boos, Margarete; Brandstätter, Veronika; Zogmaister, Cristina (2022). Climate policy support as a tool to control others’ (but not own) environmental behavior? PLOS ONE, 17 (6), e0269030. 10.1371/journal.pone.0269030

Brandstätter, Veronika; Bernecker, Katharina (2022). Persistence and Disengagement in Personal Goal Pursuit. Annual Review of Psychology, 73 (1), S. 271-299. 10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-110710

Sassenberg, Kai; Roesel, Inka; Sudeck, Gorden; Bernecker, Katharina; Durst, Jennifer; Krauss, Inga (2022). The Relation of Attitude Toward Technology and Mastery Experience After an App-Guided Physical Exercise Intervention: Randomized Crossover Trial. JMIR Formative Research, 6 (2), e28913. 10.2196/28913

Bernecker, Katharina; Becker, Daniela (2021). Beyond self-control: Mechanisms of hedonic goal pursuit and its relevance for well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47 (4), S. 627-642. 10.1177/0146167220941998

Greipl, Simon; Bernecker, Katharina; Ninaus, Manuel (2021). Facial and Bodily Expressions of Emotional Engagement: How Dynamic Measures Reflect the Use of Game Elements and Subjective Experience of Emotions and Effort. Proceedings of the ACM Human-Computer Interaction, 5. 10.1145/3474667

Bernecker, Katharina; Ninaus, Manuel (2021). No Pain, no Gain? Investigating motivational mechanisms of game elements in cognitive tasks. Computers in Human Behaviour, 114.

Kukowski, Charlotte; Bernecker, Katharina; Brandstätter, Veronika (2021). Self-Control and Beliefs Surrounding Others’ Cooperation Predict Own Health-Protective Behaviors and Support for COVID-19 Government Regulations: Evidence From Two European Countries. Social Psychological Bulletin, 16 (1), e4391.

Bernecker, Katharina; Kramer, Jule (2020). Implicit theories about willpower are associated with exercise levels during the academic examination period. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 9 (2), S. 216-231. 10.1037/spy0000182

Bernecker, Katharina; Job, Veronika (2020). Too exhausted to go to bed: Implicit theories about willpower and stress predict bedtime procrastination. British Journal of Psychology, 111 (1), S. 126-147. 10.1111/bjop.12382

Becker, Daniela; Bernecker, Katharina (2020). Wenn das Glas Wein am Abend der einzige Weg zur Entspannung ist. SuchtMagazin, 46 (6), S. 19-23. 10.5169/seals-914155

Ghassemi, Mirjam; Bernecker, Katharina; Brandstätter, Veronika (2020). “Take care, honey!”: People are more anxious about their significant others' risk behavior than about their own. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 86, S. 103879. 10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103879

Bernecker, Katharina; Ghassemi, Mirjam; Brandstätter, Veronika (2019). Approach and avoidance relationship goals and couples’ nonverbal communication during conflict. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49 (3), S. 622-636. 10.1002/ejsp.2379

Sieber, Vanda; Flückiger, Lavinia; Mata, Jutta; Bernecker, Katharina; Job, Veronika (2019). Autonomous goal striving promotes a nonlimited theory about willpower. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45 (8), S. 1295-1307. 10.1177/014616721882092

Bernecker, Katharina; Job, Veronika (2019). Mindset theory. In: Sassenberg, Kai; Vliek, Michael L. W. (Hg.) Social Psychology in Action (S. 179-191). Springer 10.1007/978-3-030-13788-5_12

Leuchtmann, Lorena; Milek, Anne; Bernecker, Katharina; Nussbeck, Fridtjof W.; Backes, Sabine; Martin, Mike; Zemp, Martina; Brandstätter, Veronika; Bodenmann, Guy (2019). Temporal dynamics of couples’ communication behaviors in conflict discussions: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36 (9), S. 2937-2960. 10.1177/0265407518806582

Bernecker, Katharina; Wenzler, Michael; Sassenberg, Kai (2019). Tweeted anger predicts county-level results of the 2016 United States presidential election. International Review of Social Psychology, 32 (1), S. 6. 10.5334/irsp.256

Bernecker, Katharina; Job, Veronika; Hofmann, Wilhelm (2018). Experience, resistance, and enactment of desires: Differential relationships with trait measures predicting self-control. Journal of Research in Personality, 76, S. 92-101. 10.1016/j.jrp.2018.07.007

Leuchtmann, Lorena; Milek, Anne; Bernecker, Katharina; Nussbeck, Fridtjof W.; Backes, Sabine; Martin, Mike; Zemp, Martina; Brandstätter, Veronika; Bodenmann, Guy (2018). Temporal dynamics of couples’ communication behaviors in conflict discussions: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36 (9), S. 2937-2960. 10.1177/0265407518806582

Bernecker, Katharina; Job, Veronika (2017). Implicit theories about willpower and their implications for health and well-being. In: de Ridder, Denise; Adriaanse, Marieke; Fujita, Kentaro (Hg.) Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being. Routledge 10.4324/9781315648576

Bernecker, Katharina; Job, Veronika (2017). Implicit theories about willpower in resisting temptations and emotion control. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 225 (2), S. 157-166. 10.1027/2151-2604/a000292

Bernecker, Katharina; Herrmann, Marcel; Brandstätter, Veronika; Job, Veronika (2017). Implicit theories about willpower predict subjective well‐being. Journal of personality, 85 (2), S. 136-150. 10.1111/jopy.12225

Ghassemi, Mirjam; Bernecker, Katharina; Herrmann, Marcel; Brandstätter, Veronika (2017). The process of disengagement from personal goals: Reciprocal influences between the experience of action crisis and appraisals of goal desirability and attainability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43 (4), S. 524-537. 10.1177/0146167216689052

Bernecker, Katharina (2016). Implicit theories about willpower and their consequences for achievement, health, and well-being. (Dissertationsschrift, Universität Zürich, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)

Neysari, Mona; Bodenmann, Guy; Mehl, Matthias R.; Bernecker, Katharina; Nussbeck, Fridtjof W.; Backes, Sabine; Zemp, Martina; Martin, Mike; Horn, Andrea B. (2016). Monitoring Pronouns in Conflicts: Temporal dynamics of verbal communication in couples across the lifespan. GeroPsych, 29 (4), S. 201-213. 10.1024/1662-9647/a000158

Kuster, Monika; Bernecker, Katharina; Backes, Sabine; Brandstätter, Veronika; Nussbeck, Fridtjof W.; Bradbury, Thomas N.; Martin, Mike; Sutter-Stickel, Dorothee; Bodenmann, Guy (2015). Avoidance orientation and the escalation of negative communication in intimate relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109 (2), S. 262-275. 10.1037/pspi0000025

Kuster, M.; Bernecker, K.; Backes, S.; Brandstätter, V.; Nussbeck, F.W.; Bradbury, T.N.; Martin, M.; Sutter-Stickel, D.; Bodenmann, G. (2015). Avoidance orientation and the escalation of negative communication in intimate relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Bernecker, Katharina; Job, Veronika (2015). Beliefs about willpower are related to therapy adherence and psychological adjustment in patients with type 2 diabetes. Basic an Applied Social Psychology, 37 (3), S. 188-195. 10.1080/01973533.2015.1049348

Bernecker, Katharina; Job, Veronika (2015). Beliefs about willpower moderate the effect of previous day demands on next day’s expectations and effective goal striving. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, S. 1496. 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01496

Job, Veronika; Friese, Malte; Bernecker, Katharina (2015). Effects of practicing self-control on academic performance. Motivation Science, 1 (4), S. 219-232.

Job, Veronika; Walton, Gregory M.; Bernecker, Katharina; Dweck, Carol S. (2015). Implicit theories about willpower predict self-regulation and grades in everyday life. Journal of personality and social psychology, 108 (4), S. 637-647. 10.1037/pspp0000014

Job, Veronika; Bernecker, Katharina; Miketta, Stefanie; Friese, Malte (2015). Implicit theories about willpower predict the activation of a rest goal following self-control exertion. Journal of personality and social psychology, 109 (4), S. 694-706. 10.1037/pspp0000042

Job, Veronika; Walton, Gregory M.; Bernecker, Katharina; Dweck, Carol S. (2013). Beliefs about willpower determine the impact of glucose on self-control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110 (37), S. 14837-14842. 10.1073/pnas.1313475110

Job, Veronika; Bernecker, Katharina; Dweck, Carol S. (2012). Are implicit motives the need to feel certain affect? Motive–affect congruence predicts relationship satisfaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38 (12), S. 1552-1565. 10.1177/0146167212454920

Bernecker, Katharina; Job, Veronika (2011). Assessing implicit motives with an online version of the picture story exercise. Motivation and Emotion, 35 (3), S. 251-266. 10.1007/s11031-010-9175-8