ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Gander, Fabian; Wagner, Lisa; Vylobkova, Valentina; Kretzschmar, André; Ruch, Willibald (2023). Paragons of character - Character strengths and well-being of moral, creative, and religious exemplars. Journal of Personality:1-14.
• Gander, Fabian; Wagner, Lisa (2023). Which positive personality traits do people want to change?. European Journal of Personality:Epub ahead of print.
• Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (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(19):16344-16355.
• Ruch, Willibald; Wagner, Lisa; Hofmann, Jennifer (2023). A lexical approach to laughter classification: Natural language distinguishes six (classes of) formal characteristics. Current Psychology, 42(19):16234-16246.
• Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (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(3):460-480.
• Grossmann, Igor; Rotella, Amanda; Hutcherson, Cendri A; Sharpinskyi, Konstantyn; Varnum, Michael E W; Achter, Sebastian; Dhami, Mandeep K; Guo, Xinqi Evie; Kara-Yakoubian, Mane; Mandel, David R; Raes, Louis; Tay, Louis; Vie, Aymeric; Wagner, Lisa; Adamkovic, Matus; Arami, Arash; Arriaga, Patrícia; Bandara, Kasun; Baník, Gabriel; Bartoš, František; Baskin, Ernest; Bergmeir, Christoph; Białek, Michał; Børsting, Caroline K; Browne, Dillon T; Caruso, Eugene M; Chen, Rong; Chie, Bin-Tzong; Chopik, William J; et al (2023). Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(4):484-501.
• Valentina, Vylobkova; Sonja, Heintz; Fabian, Gander; Lisa, Wagner; Willibald, Ruch (2023). Convergence and psychometric properties of character strengths measures: The VIA-IS and the VIA-IS-R. Journal of Personality Assessment, 105(1):14-21.
• Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2023). Assessing Character Strengths. In: Ruch, Willibald; Bakker, Arnold B; Tay, Louis; Gander, Fabian. Handbook of Positive Psychology Assessment. Newburyport, MA: Hogrefe, 101-121.
• Gander, Fabian; Wagner, Lisa; Amann, Lukas; Ruch, Willibald (2022). What are character strengths good for? A daily diary study on character strengths enactment. Journal of Positive Psychology, 17(5):718-728.
• Reinelt, Tilman; Wermelinger, Stephanie; Beck, Sabrina; Brehm, Julia; Helbling, Natascha; Manfredi, Mirella; Moersdorf, Lea; Wagner, Lisa; Daum, Moritz 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(5):e2322.
• Ruggeri, Kai; Panin, Amma; Vdovic, Milica; Većkalov, Bojana; Abdul-Salaam, Nazeer; Achterberg, Jascha; Akil, Carla; Amatya, Jolly; Amatya, Kanchan; Andersen, Thomas Lind; Aquino, Sibele D; Arunasalam, Arjoon; Ashcroft-Jones, Sarah; Askelund, Adrian Dahl; Ayacaxli, Nélida; Sheshdeh, Aseman Bagheri; Bailey, Alexander; Barea Arroyo, Paula; Mejía, Genaro Basulto; Benvenuti, Martina; Berge, Mari Louise; Bermaganbet, Aliya; Bibilouri, Katherine; Bjørndal, Ludvig Daae; Black, Sabrina; Lyshol, Johanna K Blomster; Brik, Tymofii; Buabang, Eike Kofi; Burghart, Matthias; Bursalıoğlu, Aslı; Wagner, Lisa; Toscano, Filippo (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(10):1386-1397.
• Gander, Fabian; Wagner, Lisa (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(4):466-482.
• Kretzschmar, André; Wagner, Lisa; Gander, Fabian; Hofmann, Jennifer; Proyer, René T; Ruch, Willibald (2022). Character strengths and fluid intelligence. Journal of Personality:1-13.
• Wagner, Lisa; Pindeus, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2021). Character strengths in the life domains of work, education, leisure, and relationships and their associations with flourishing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:597534.
• Ruch, Willibald; Gander, Fabian; Wagner, Lisa; Giuliani, Fiorina (2021). The structure of character: On the relationships between character strengths and virtues. Journal of Positive Psychology, 16(1):116-128.
• Ruggeri, Kai; Većkalov, Bojana; Bojanić, Lana; et al; Wagner, Lisa (2021). The general fault in our fault lines. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(10):1369-1380.
• Wagner, Lisa. Studying What Is Best in Adolescents: The Role of Character Strengths in Positive Experiences, Relationships, and Achievement at School. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
• Baumann, Doris; Ruch, Willibald; Margelisch, Katja; Gander, Fabian; Wagner, Lisa (2020). Character Strengths and Life Satisfaction in Later Life: an Analysis of Different Living Conditions. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 15(2):329-347.
• Wagner, Lisa; Gander, Fabian; Proyer, René T; Ruch, Willibald (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(2):307-328.
• Wagner, Lisa; Holenstein, Mathias; Wepf, Hannah; Ruch, Willibald (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.
• Wagner, Lisa (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(6):864-903.
• Wagner, Lisa (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.
• Ruch, Willibald; Heintz, Sonja; Platt, Tracey; Wagner, Lisa; Proyer, René T (2018). Broadening humor: comic styles differentially tap into temperament, character, and ability. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:6.
• Ruch, Willibald; Wagner, Lisa; Heintz, Sonja (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(1):31-44.
• Ruch, Willibald; Bruntsch, Richard; Wagner, Lisa (2017). The role of character traits in economic games. Personality and Individual Differences, 108:186-190.
• Roberts, Megan E; Wagner, Lisa; Zorjan, Saša; Nèmeth, Enikö; van Toor, Désie; Czaplinski, Michał (2017). Testing the Situationism Scale in Europe: Scale validation, self-regulation and regional differences. International Journal of Psychology, 52(4):264-272.
• Platt, Tracey; Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2016). The association between class clown dimensions, school experiences and accomplishment. Learning & Individual Differences, 51:327-332.
• Wagner, Lisa; Baumann, Nicola; Hank, Petra (2016). Enjoying influence on others: Congruently high implicit and explicit power motives are related to teachers’ well-being. Motivation & Emotion, 40(1):69-81.
• Weber, Marco; Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2016). Positive feelings at school: on the relationships between students’ character strengths, school-related affect, and school functioning. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17(1):341-355.
• Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2015). Attribute des Lachens: Ein lexikalischer Ansaz. Zeitschrift für Semiotik:109-127.
• Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2015). Good character at school: Positive classroom behavior mediates the link between character strengths and school achievement. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:24.
• Proyer, Rene T; Wagner, Lisa (2015). Playfulness in adults revisited: The signal theory in German speakers. American Journal of Play, 7(2):201-227.
• Wagner, Lisa; Conrad, Daniela; Gajić, Najdana; Kácha, Ondřej; Martinović, Katarina; Skvortsova, Aleksandrina; van Doeselaar, Lotte; Voitenko, Darja (2014). Examining adolescents’ well-being: How do the orientations to happiness relate to their leisure time activities?. Journal of European Psychology Students (JEPS), 5(2):8-12.
• Ruch, Willibald; Wagner, Lisa (2013). Die Positive Psychologie bei Kindern und Jugendlichen: Charakterstärken und das gute Leben. Psychologie & Erziehung, 39(1):8-20.