ZORA Publikationsliste

Publikationen

• Daum, M., Reinelt, T., Wagner, L., & Wermelinger, S. (2026). Entwicklungspsychologische Grundlagen In R. Markowetz, T. Hennemann, D. C. Hövel, & G. Casale (Eds.), Handbuch Förderschwerpunkt emotional-soziale Entwicklung (pp. 75–83). Beltz Juventa.
• Loeffler, M. T., Daikeler, J., Wagner, L., Natalucci, G., & Daum, M. M. (2025). Early Expressive and Receptive Language Development in Preterm vs Full-Term Children: A Meta-Analysis Pediatrics, 156, e2024070477. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2024-070477
• Reinelt, T., Wagner, L., Suppiger, D., Daum, M. M., & Natalucci, G. (2025). How was your child’s temperament today and last week? Considering within-person variability in the measurement of infant temperament European Journal of Personality, 39, 575–590. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241289155
• Wagner, L., & Gander, F. (2025). Character strength traits, states, and emotional well‐being: A daily diary study Journal of Personality, 93, 341–360. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12933
• Gander, F., & Wagner, L. (2024). Which positive personality traits do people want to change? European Journal of Personality, 38, 657–676. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070231211957
• Gander, F., Wagner, L., & Niemiec, R. M. (2024). Do character strengths-based interventions change character strengths? Two randomized controlled intervention studies Collabra: Psychology, 10, 108604. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.108604
• Loenneker, H. D., Buchanan, E. M., Martinovici, A., Primbs, M. A., Elsherif, M. M., Baker, B. J., Dudda, L. A., Đurđević, D. F., Mišić, K., Peetz, H. K., Röer, J. P., Schulze, L., Wagner, L., Wolska, J. K., Kührt, C., & Pronizius, E. (2024). We don’t know what you did last summer. On the importance of transparent reporting of reaction time data pre-processing. Cortex, 172, 14–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.11.012
• Ruggeri, K., Stock, F., Haslam, S. A., Capraro, V., Boggio, P., Ellemers, N., Cichocka, A., Douglas, K. M., Rand, D. G., van der Linden, S., Cikara, M., Finkel, E. J., Druckman, J. N., Wohl, M. J. A., Petty, R. E., Tucker, J. A., Shariff, A., Gelfand, M., Packer, D., … et al. (2024). A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19 Nature, 625, 134–147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06840-9
• Gander, F., Wagner, L., Vylobkova, V., Kretzschmar, A., & Ruch, W. (2023). Paragons of character - Character strengths and well-being of moral, creative, and religious exemplars Journal of Personality, 92, 1514–1527. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12907
• Wagner, L., & Ruch, W. (2023). Trait cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood outperform personality traits of the five-factor model in explaining variance in humor behaviors and well-being among adolescents Current Psychology, 42, 16344–16355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-00629-z
• Ruch, W., Wagner, L., & Hofmann, J. (2023). A lexical approach to laughter classification: Natural language distinguishes six (classes of) formal characteristics Current Psychology, 42, 16234–16246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00369-9
• Wagner, L., & Ruch, W. (2023). Displaying character strengths in behavior is related to well-being and achievement at school: Evidence from between- and within-person analyses Journal of Positive Psychology, 18, 460–480. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2022.2109196
• Grossmann, I., Rotella, A., Hutcherson, C. A., Sharpinskyi, K., Varnum, M. E. W., Achter, S., Dhami, M. K., Guo, X. E., Kara-Yakoubian, M., Mandel, D. R., Raes, L., Tay, L., Vie, A., Wagner, L., Adamkovic, M., Arami, A., Arriaga, P., Bandara, K., Baník, G., … et al. (2023). Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 484–501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1
• Vylobkova, V., Heintz, S., Gander, F., Wagner, L., & Ruch, W. (2023). Convergence and psychometric properties of character strengths measures: The VIA-IS and the VIA-IS-R Journal of Personality Assessment, 105, 14–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2022.2044342
• Wagner, L., & Ruch, W. (2023). Assessing Character Strengths In W. Ruch, A. B. Bakker, L. Tay, & F. Gander (Eds.), Handbook of Positive Psychology Assessment (No. 5; pp. 101–121). Hogrefe & Huber.
• Gander, F., Wagner, L., Amann, L., & Ruch, W. (2022). What are character strengths good for? A daily diary study on character strengths enactment Journal of Positive Psychology, 17, 718–728. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2021.1926532
• Reinelt, T., Wermelinger, S., Beck, S., Brehm, J., Helbling, N., Manfredi, M., Moersdorf, L., Wagner, L., & Daum, M. M. (2022). Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021) Infant and Child Development, 31, e2322. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2322
• Ruggeri, K., Panin, A., Vdovic, M., Većkalov, B., Abdul-Salaam, N., Achterberg, J., Akil, C., Amatya, J., Amatya, K., Andersen, T. L., Aquino, S. D., Arunasalam, A., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Askelund, A. D., Ayacaxli, N., Sheshdeh, A. B., Bailey, A., Barea Arroyo, P., Mejía, G. B., … Toscano, F. (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 1386–1397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01392-w
• Gander, F., & Wagner, L. (2022). Character Growth Following Collective Life Events: A Study on Perceived and Measured Changes in Character Strengths During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic European Journal of Personality, 36, 466–482. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070211040975
• Kretzschmar, A., Wagner, L., Gander, F., Hofmann, J., Proyer, R. T., & Ruch, W. (2022). Character strengths and fluid intelligence Journal of Personality, 90, 1057–1069. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12715
• Wagner, L., Pindeus, L., & Ruch, W. (2021). Character strengths in the life domains of work, education, leisure, and relationships and their associations with flourishing Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 597534. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.597534
• Ruch, W., Gander, F., Wagner, L., & Giuliani, F. (2021). The structure of character: On the relationships between character strengths and virtues Journal of Positive Psychology, 16, 116–128. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1689418
• Wagner, L. (2021). Studying What Is Best in Adolescents: The Role of Character Strengths in Positive Experiences, Relationships, and Achievement at School (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-198742
• Ruggeri, K., Većkalov, B., Bojanić, L., Wagner, L., & et al. (2021). The general fault in our fault lines Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1369–1380. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01092-x
• Baumann, D., Ruch, W., Margelisch, K., Gander, F., & Wagner, L. (2020). Character Strengths and Life Satisfaction in Later Life: an Analysis of Different Living Conditions Applied Research in Quality of Life, 15, 329–347. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-018-9689-x
• Wagner, L., Gander, F., Proyer, R. T., & Ruch, W. (2020). Character Strengths and PERMA: Investigating the Relationships of Character Strengths with a Multidimensional Framework of Well-Being Applied Research in Quality of Life, 15, 307–328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-018-9695-z
• Wagner, L., Holenstein, M., Wepf, H., & Ruch, W. (2020). Character Strengths Are Related to Students’ Achievement, Flow Experiences, and Enjoyment in Teacher-Centered Learning, Individual, and Group Work Beyond Cognitive Ability. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1324. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01324
• Wagner, L. (2019). Good Character Is What We Look for in a Friend: Character Strengths Are Positively Related to Peer Acceptance and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescents Journal of Early Adolescence, 39, 864–903. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431618791286
• Wagner, L. (2019). The Social Life of Class Clowns: Class Clown Behavior Is Associated With More Friends, but Also More Aggressive Behavior in the Classroom Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 604. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00604
• Ruch, W., Wagner, L., & Heintz, S. (2018). Humor, the PEN model of personality, and subjective well-being: Support for differential relationships of eight comic styles Rivista Italiana Di Studi Sull’Umorismo, 1, 31–44. https://www.risu.biz/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Ruch_et_al.-RISU-11-2018-31-44.pdf
• Ruch, W., Heintz, S., Platt, T., Wagner, L., & Proyer, R. T. (2018). Broadening humor: comic styles differentially tap into temperament, character, and ability Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00006
• Ruch, W., Bruntsch, R., & Wagner, L. (2017). The role of character traits in economic games Personality and Individual Differences, 108, 186–190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.12.007
• Roberts, M. E., Wagner, L., Zorjan, S., Nèmeth, E., van Toor, D., & Czaplinski, M. (2017). Testing the Situationism Scale in Europe: Scale validation, self-regulation and regional differences International Journal of Psychology, 52, 264–272. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12211
• Wagner, L., Baumann, N., & Hank, P. (2016). Enjoying influence on others: Congruently high implicit and explicit power motives are related to teachers’ well-being Motivation & Emotion, 40, 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-015-9516-8
• Platt, T., Wagner, L., & Ruch, W. (2016). The association between class clown dimensions, school experiences and accomplishment Learning & Individual Differences, 51, 327–332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2016.08.036
• Weber, M., Wagner, L., & Ruch, W. (2016). Positive feelings at school: on the relationships between students’ character strengths, school-related affect, and school functioning Journal of Happiness Studies, 17, 341–355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-014-9597-1
• Wagner, L., & Ruch, W. (2015). Good character at school: Positive classroom behavior mediates the link between character strengths and school achievement Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 24. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00610
• Proyer, R. T., & Wagner, L. (2015). Playfulness in adults revisited: The signal theory in German speakers American Journal of Play, 7, 201–227. http://www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/7-2-article-playfulness-in-adults-revisited.pdf
• Wagner, L., & Ruch, W. (2015). Attribute des Lachens: Ein lexikalischer Ansaz Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 109–127.
• Wagner, L., Conrad, D., Gajić, N., Kácha, O., Martinović, K., Skvortsova, A., van Doeselaar, L., & Voitenko, D. (2014). Examining adolescents’ well-being: How do the orientations to happiness relate to their leisure time activities? Journal of European Psychology Students (JEPS), 5, 8–12. https://doi.org/10.5334/jeps.bv
• Ruch, W., & Wagner, L. (2013). Die Positive Psychologie bei Kindern und Jugendlichen: Charakterstärken und das gute Leben Psychologie & Erziehung, 39, 8–20.