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Overview

Dieter Frey is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research encompasses a diverse range of topics primarily situated within social psychology, organizational behavior, human resource management, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these areas, key subfields frequently addressed by Frey are:

  • Social Psychology
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Gender Studies

Their research covers several specific topics, including:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Emotional Intelligence and Performance
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Business and Psychology
  • International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology
  • Computer und Recht
  • Scientific Reports

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Frey are:

  • Non-task expert physicians benefit from correct explainable AI advice when reviewing X-rays (2023), published in Scientific Reports
  • Sounds like a fit! Wording in recruitment advertisements and recruiter gender affect women's pursuit of career development programs via anticipated belongingness (2020), published in Human Resource Management
  • The Value of Speaking for "Us": the Relationship Between CEOs' Use of I- and We-Referencing Language and Subsequent Organizational Performance (2020), published in Journal of Business and Psychology
  • "One of these things is not like the others": The associations between dark triad personality traits, work attitudes, and work-related motivation (2023), published in Personality and Individual Differences
  • Coach me if you can! Dark triad clients, their effect on coaches, and how coaches deal with them (2020), published in Coaching An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice

Collaborations have been made frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Angela Kuonath
  • Eva Lermer
  • Martin P. Fladerer
  • Irmgard Mausz
  • Matthias F. C. Hudecek

Best Publications

  • Transformational leadership, job satisfaction, and team performance: A multilevel mediation model of trust

    Susanne Braun;Susanne Braun;Claudia Peus;Silke Weisweiler;Dieter Frey

  • Recent Research on Selective Exposure to Information

    Dieter Frey

  • The bystander-effect: A meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies.

    Peter Fischer;Joachim I. Krueger;Tobias Greitemeyer;Claudia Vogrincic

  • Confirmation bias in sequential information search after preliminary decisions: an expansion of dissonance theoretical research on selective exposure to information.

    Eva Jonas;Stefan Schulz-Hardt;Dieter Frey;Norman Thelen

  • Authentic Leadership: An Empirical Test of Its Antecedents, Consequences, and Mediating Mechanisms

    Claudia Peus;Jenny Sarah Wesche;Bernhard Streicher;Susanne Braun

  • Group decision making in hidden profile situations: dissent as a facilitator for decision quality.

    Stefan Schulz-Hardt;Felix C. Brodbeck;Andreas Mojzisch;Rudolf Kerschreiter

  • Biased information search in group decision making.

    Stefan Schulz-Hardt;Dieter Frey;Carsten Lüthgens;Serge Moscovici

  • Productive conflict in group decision making: genuine and contrived dissent as strategies to counteract biased information seeking☆

    Stefan Schulz-Hardt;Marc Jochims;Dieter Frey

  • The Unresponsive Bystander: Are Bystanders More Responsive in Dangerous Emergencies?

    Peter Fischer;Tobias Greitemeyer;Fabian Pollozek;Dieter Frey

  • The dissemination of critical, unshared information in decision‐making groups: the effects of pre‐discussion dissent

    Felix C. Brodbeck;Rudolf Kerschreiter;Andreas Mojzisch;Dieter Frey

  • Selective exposure to information: the impact of information limits

    Peter Fischer;Eva Jonas;Dieter Frey;Stefan Schulz-Hardt

  • Turning to God in the Face of Ostracism: Effects of Social Exclusion on Religiousness

    Nilüfer Aydin;Peter Fischer;Dieter Frey

  • Self-regulation and selective exposure: the impact of depleted self-regulation resources on confirmatory information processing.

    Peter Fischer;Tobias Greitemeyer;Dieter Frey

  • Masculine (Instrumental) and Feminine (Expressive) Traits A Comparison between Students in the United States and West Germany

    Thomas E. Runge;Dieter Frey;Peter M. Gollwitzer;Robert L. Helmreich

  • Giving Advice or Making Decisions in Someone Else’s Place: The Influence of Impression, Defense, and Accuracy Motivation on the Search for New Information

    Eva Jonas;Stefan Schulz-Hardt;Dieter Frey

  • Information search and presentation in advisor–client interactions

    Eva Jonas;Dieter Frey

  • Connecting terror management and dissonance theory: Evidence that mortality salience increases the preference for supporting information after decisions

    Eva Jonas;Jeff Greenberg;Dieter Frey

  • Information Sampling and Group Decision Making: The Effects of an Advocacy Decision Procedure and Task Experience.

    Tobias Greitemeyer;Stefan Schulz-Hardt;Felix C. Brodbeck;Dieter Frey

  • Culture, Self and the Emergence of Reactance: Is there a "Universal" Freedom?

    Eva Jonas;Verena Graupmann;Daniela Niesta Kayser;Mark Zanna

  • Leader Narcissism Predicts Malicious Envy and Supervisor-Targeted Counterproductive Work Behavior: Evidence from Field and Experimental Research

    Susanne Braun;Susanne Braun;Niluefer Aydin;Dieter Frey;Claudia Peus

  • The effects of feedback about self and others on the recall and judgments of feedback-relevant information ☆

    Robert S Wyer;Dieter Frey

  • Die Theorie der kognizierten Kontrolle

    Dieter Frey;Eva Jonas

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva Jonas
Eva Jonas University of Salzburg
Tobias Greitemeyer
Tobias Greitemeyer University of Innsbruck
Joachim I. Krueger
Joachim I. Krueger Brown University
Simone Kauffeld
Simone Kauffeld Technische Universität Braunschweig
Hongfei Du
Hongfei Du Beijing Normal University
Mark P. Zanna
Mark P. Zanna University of Waterloo
Jon K. Maner
Jon K. Maner Florida State University
Joseph P. Forgas
Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona
Markus Bühner
Markus Bühner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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