Publikationen

Furr, R. M., Prentice, M., Hawkins Parham, A., Hartley, A.G., & Fleeson, W. (2024). Is doing good good enough? A motivation, action, sacrifice, and temptation (MAST) view of moral praiseworthiness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi: 10.1177/01461672241273243

Lieder, F., Chen, P.Z., Prentice, M., *Amo, V., Tosic, M. (2024). Gamification of behavior change: A mathematical principle and a field experiment. Journal of Medical Internet Research: Serious Games. doi: 10.2196/43078

Wirzberger, M.ª, Lado, A.ª, Prentice, M., Oreshnikov, I., Passy, J.-C., Stock, A. & Lieder, F. (2024). Optimal feedback improves behavioral focus during self-regulated computer-based work. Scientific Reports, 14, 3124. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-53388-3

Fleeson, W.R., Furr, R.M., Jayawickreme, E., *Luke, D., Prentice, M., Reynolds, C.J., & Parham, A.H. (2023). Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional. Journal of Personality. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12867

*Amo, V., Prentice, M., & Lieder, F. (2023). A gamified mobile app that helps people develop the metacognitive skills to cope with stressful situations and difficult emotions: Formative assessment of the Insight App. Journal of Medical Internet Research: Formative Research, 7, e44429. doi: 10.2196/44429

Furr, R. M., Prentice, M., Hawkins, A., & Jayawickreme. (2023). Development and validation of the Moral Character Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104228

Lieder, F., & Prentice, M. (2023). Life improvement science. In F. Maggino (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 2nd Edition, Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_104681

Lieder, F., Prentice, M., Corwin-Renner, E. (2023). An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well-doing. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16, e12704. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12704

*Luke, D., Prentice, M., & Fleeson, W. (2021). Chapter 46—Dynamic processes underlying individual differences in moral behavior. In J. F. Rauthmann (Ed.), The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes (pp. 1183–1207). Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-813995-0.00046-7

Jayawickreme, E., Prentice, M., & Fleeson, W. (2020). Morality as a basic psychological need: Preliminary evidence. Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice: Are Virtues Local or Universal?, 101-116. doi: 10.4324/9780429343131

Prentice, M., Jayawickreme, E., & Fleeson, W. (2020). An experience sampling study of the momentary dynamics of moral, autonomous, competent, and related need satisfactions, moral enactments, and psychological thriving. Motivation & Emotion, 44, 244–256. doi: 10.1007/s11031-020-09829-3

Sheldon, K., & Prentice, M. (2019). Self-determination theory as a foundation for personality researchers. Journal of Personality, 87, 5-14. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12360

*Lüders, A., Prentice, M., & Jonas, E. (2019). Refugees in the media: Exploring a vicious cycle of thwarted needs, confirmatory information seeking, and group-based defenses in receiving cultures. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 1471-1479. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2580

Prentice, M., Fleeson, W., & Jayawickreme, E. (2019). Integrating whole trait theory and selfdetermination theory. Journal of Personality, 87, 56-59. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12417

Sheldon, K., Corcoran, M., & Prentice, M. (2019). Pursuing eudaimonic functioning versus pursuing wellbeing: The first goal succeeds in its aim, whereas the second does not. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20, 919-933. doi: 10.1007/s10902-018-9980-4

Sheldon, K., Prentice, M., & Osin, E. (2019). Rightly crossing the Rubicon: Evaluating goal selfconcordance prior to selection helps people choose more satisfying goals. Journal of Research in Personality, 79, 119-129. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2019.03.001

Pierrakos, O., Prentice, M., Silvergate, C., Lamb, M., *Demaske, A., *Smout, R. (2019). Reimagining engineering ethics: From ethics education to character education. In 2019 49th IEEE Annual Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference Proceedings: Bringing Education to the Future, Covington, KY, USA, 1-9. doi: 10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028690

Prentice, M., Jayawickreme, E., Hawkins, A., Hartley, A., Furr, R. M., & Fleeson, W. (2019). Morality as a basic psychological need. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 10, 449-460. doi: 10.1177/1948550618772011

Sanderson, R.ª, Prentice, M.ª, Wolf, L., Kasser, T., Weinstein, N., & Crompton, T. (2019). Strangers in a strange land: The impact of perceptions of other's values on civic engagement and cultural estrangement. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 559. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00559

Prentice, M., Kasser, T., & Sheldon, K. M. (2018). Openness to experience predicts intrinsic value shifts after deliberating one's own death. Death Studies, 42, 205-215. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1334016

Hayes, J., Prentice, M., & McGregor, I. (2017). Giving in and giving up: Accommodation and fatalistic withdrawal as alternatives to primary control restoration. In M. Bukowski, I. Fritsche, A. Guinote, & M. Kofta (Eds.), Current issues in social psychology. Coping with lack of control in a social world (p. 116–132). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9781315661452-14

Agroskin, D., Jonas, E., Klackl, J., & Prentice, M. (2016). Inhibition underlies the effect of high need for closure on cultural closed-mindedness under mortality salience. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1583. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01583

Schüler, J., Sheldon, K. M., Prentice, M., & Halusic, M. (2016). Do some people need autonomy more than others? Implicit dispositions towards autonomy moderate the effects of felt autonomy on well-being. Journal of Personality, 84, 5-20. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12133

McGregor, I., Hayes, J., & Prentice, M. (2015). Motivation for aggressive religious radicalization: Goal regulation theory and a personality × threat × affordance hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1325. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01325

Prentice, M., & Sheldon, K. M. (2015). Priming effects on cooperative behavior in social dilemmas: Considering the prime and the person. Journal of Social Psychology, 155, 163-181. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2014.977763

Sheldon, K., Prentice, M., & Halusic, M. (2015). The experiential incompatibility of mindfulness and flow absorption. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 6, 276-283. doi: 10.1177/1948550614555028

Nash, K., Prentice, M., Hirsh, J. B., McGregor, I., & Inzlicht, M. (2014). Muted neural response to distress among securely attached people. Social, Cognitive, & Affective Neuroscience, 9, 1239-1245. doi: 10.1093/scan/nst099

Prentice, M., & McGregor, I. (2014). Anxiety and the approach of idealistic meaning. In A. Batthany & P. Russo-Netzer (Eds.) Meaning in existential and positive psychology (pp. 205-220). New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0308-5_12

Prentice, M., Halusic, M., & Sheldon, K. M. (2014). Integrating theories of psychological needs-asrequirements and psychological needs-as-motives: A two process model. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(2), 73-85. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12088

McGregor, I., Prentice, M., & Nash, K. (2013). Anxious uncertainty and reactive approach motivation (RAM) for religious, idealistic, and lifestyle extremes. Journal of Social Issues, 69, 537-563. doi: 10.1111/josi.12028

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Lieder, F., Prentice, M., Corwin-Renner, E. (2021). Toward a science of effective well-doing. Tübingen, DE: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Common Cause Foundation. (2016). Perceptions matter: The common cause UK values survey. London, UK: Common Cause Foundation.

Filardo, E-A., Prentice, M., Febbraro, A. R., Blais, A-R., Fraser, B., & Spiece, R. (2016). Social and behavioural correlates to effective problem solving in meta-teams (U), (DRDC Toronto TR 2010-184) Defence Research & Development Canada - Toronto. - Unclassified research product