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Emanuel Jauk

Emanuel Jauk

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2025

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D-Index
34
Citations
7833
World Ranking
864
National Ranking
27

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
8464
World Ranking
8462
National Ranking
389

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  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Emanuel Jauk is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, focusing predominantly on clinical psychology. Their research spans several interconnected subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, and applied psychology.

Their publication record includes work in well-known venues such as Journal of Personality, Personality Neuroscience, Journal of Personality Assessment, NeuroImage, PsycTESTS Dataset, Frontiers in Psychology, Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, and Psychological Assessment.

Key recent papers by Emanuel Jauk include:

  • The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: An individual data meta-analysis, 2021, Journal of Personality
  • Can neuroscience help to understand narcissism? A systematic review of an emerging field, 2021, Personality Neuroscience
  • Self-Reported Levels of Personality Functioning from the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD) System and Emotional Intelligence Likely Assess the Same Latent Construct, 2020, Journal of Personality Assessment

Jauk has closely collaborated with several researchers, frequently co-authoring papers with:

  • Philipp Kanske
  • Malin K. Hildebrandt
  • Mitja D. Back
  • Carolyn C. Morf
  • Carina Remmers

Their research topics primarily revolve around personality traits and psychology, personality disorders and psychopathology, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, mental health research, psychotherapy techniques and applications, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and bipolar disorder and treatment.

Among these, the largest volume of publications addresses personality traits and psychology as well as personality disorders and psychopathology.

Jauk's work includes studies on social cognition and brain activation during perspective-taking, as evidenced by collaborative publications in neuroscience and neuroimaging journals. This signals an interdisciplinary approach combining psychological assessment methods with neuroscientific techniques.

Best Publications

  • Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity.

    Mathias Benedek;Emanuel Jauk;Markus Sommer;Martin Arendasy

  • The relationship between intelligence and creativity: New support for the threshold hypothesis by means of empirical breakpoint detection

    Emanuel Jauk;Mathias Benedek;Beate Dunst;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • Creativity and the default network: A functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest.

    Roger E. Beaty;Mathias Benedek;Robin W. Wilkins;Emanuel Jauk

  • The roles of associative and executive processes in creative cognition

    Roger E. Beaty;Paul J. Silvia;Emily C. Nusbaum;Emanuel Jauk

  • The road to creative achievement: A latent variable model of ability and personality predictors

    E. Jauk;M. Benedek;A.C. Neubauer

  • To create or to recall? Neural mechanisms underlying the generation of creative new ideas.

    Mathias Benedek;Emanuel Jauk;Andreas Fink;Karl Koschutnig

  • Alpha power increases in right parietal cortex reflects focused internal attention

    Mathias Benedek;Rainer J. Schickel;Emanuel Jauk;Andreas Fink

  • Creating metaphors: the neural basis of figurative language production.

    Mathias Benedek;Roger E. Beaty;Emanuel Jauk;Karl Koschutnig

  • Are creative ideas novel and useful

    Jennifer Diedrich;Mathias Benedek;Emanuel Jauk;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • Is creativity without intelligence possible? A Necessary Condition Analysis

    Maciej Karwowski;Jan Dul;Jacek Gralewski;Emanuel Jauk

  • Assessment of Divergent Thinking by means of the Subjective Top-Scoring Method: Effects of the Number of Top-Ideas and Time-on-Task on Reliability and Validity.

    Mathias Benedek;Caterina Mühlmann;Emanuel Jauk;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • Assessment of real-life creativity: The Inventory of Creative Activities and Achievements (ICAA).

    Jennifer Diedrich;Emanuel Jauk;Paul J. Silvia;Jeffrey M. Gredlein

  • Neural efficiency as a function of task demands.

    Beate Dunst;Mathias Benedek;Emanuel Jauk;Sabine Bergner

  • Tackling creativity at its roots: Evidence for different patterns of EEG alpha activity related to convergent and divergent modes of task processing

    Emanuel Jauk;Mathias Benedek;Aljoscha C. Neubauer

  • Personality and complex brain networks: The role of openness to experience in default network efficiency.

    Roger E. Beaty;Scott Barry Kaufman;Mathias Benedek;Rex E. Jung

  • Brain mechanisms associated with internally directed attention and self-generated thought.

    Mathias Benedek;Emanuel Jauk;Roger E. Beaty;Andreas Fink

  • Dissociating Empathy From Perspective-Taking: Evidence From Intra- and Inter-Individual Differences Research.

    Julia Stietz;Emanuel Jauk;Sören Krach;Philipp Kanske;Philipp Kanske

  • The Relationship between Grandiose and Vulnerable (Hypersensitive) Narcissism.

    Emanuel Jauk;Elena Weigle;Konrad Lehmann;Mathias Benedek

  • Assessment of creativity evaluation skills: A psychometric investigation in prospective teachers

    Mathias Benedek;Nora Nordtvedt;Emanuel Jauk;Corinna Koschmieder

  • Motives for Creativity: Exploring the What and Why of Everyday Creativity.

    Mathias Benedek;Raphaela Bruckdorfer;Emanuel Jauk

  • The relationship between intelligence and creativity: New support for the threshold hypothesis by means of empirical breakpoint detection

    A.C. Neubauer;E. Jauk;M. Benedek;B. Dunst

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathias Benedek
Mathias Benedek University of Graz
Aljoscha C. Neubauer
Aljoscha C. Neubauer University of Graz
Philipp Kanske
Philipp Kanske TU Dresden
Andreas Fink
Andreas Fink University of Graz
Roger E. Beaty
Roger E. Beaty Pennsylvania State University
Paul J. Silvia
Paul J. Silvia University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Norbert Jaušovec
Norbert Jaušovec University of Maribor
John F. Rauthmann
John F. Rauthmann Bielefeld University
Jochen E. Gebauer
Jochen E. Gebauer University of Mannheim
Jörg M. Fegert
Jörg M. Fegert University of Ulm

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