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Julius Kuhl is affiliated with Osnabrück University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, particularly within applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their scholarly output encompasses 66 publications primarily focused on psychology, addressing a range of subfields and topics. Major research themes include behavioral health and interventions, mental health research topics, psychological testing and assessment, motivation and self-concept in sports, cognitive abilities and testing, creativity in education and neuroscience, and action observation and synchronization.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Kuhl include:

  • The Dynamics of Personality Approach (DPA): 20 Tenets for Uncovering the Causal Mechanisms of Personality, 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • Nurturing your self: measuring and changing how people strive for what they need, 2020, The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Breaking the Chains: The Inverted-U-Shaped Relationship Between Action-State Orientation and Creativity Under Low Job Autonomy, 2021, Journal of Management
  • Personality, Stress, and Intuition: Emotion Regulation Abilities Moderate the Effect of Stress-Dependent Cortisol Increase on Coherence Judgments, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Endurance and avoidance response patterns in pain patients: Application of action control theory in pain research, 2021, PLoS ONE

Frequent coauthors in Kuhl's research include Nicola Baumann, Markus Quirin, Miguel Kazén, Jana Buchmann, and Jana Semrau. This collaboration history denotes sustained partnerships contributing to multiple publications.

Kuhl's work has appeared regularly in a select group of publication venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Current Psychology
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Research in Personality

In addition to journal articles, Kuhl has authored a book titled Persönlichkeitspsychologie, published in 2024 by Hogrefe Verlag.

This profile reflects a comprehensive body of research that spans theoretical, experimental, and applied dimensions of psychology, emphasizing personality, motivation, mental health, and cognitive functioning.

Best Publications

  • Action control : from cognition to behavior

    Julius Kuhl;Jürgen Beckmann

  • Volitional Mediators of Cognition-Behavior Consistency: Self-Regulatory Processes and Action Versus State Orientation

    Julius Kuhl

  • Chapter 5 – A Functional-Design Approach to Motivation and Self-Regulation: The Dynamics of Personality Systems Interactions

    Julius Kuhl

  • Nature and autonomy: An organizational view of social and neurobiological aspects of self-regulation in behavior and development

    Richard M. Ryan;Julius Kuhl;Edward L. Deci

  • Volitional aspects of achievement motivation and learned helplessness: toward a comprehensive theory of action control.

    Julius Kuhl

  • Motivation, Konflikt und Handlungskontrolle

    Julius Kuhl

  • Volition and Personality: Action Versus State Orientation

    Julius Kuhl;Jürgen Beckmann

  • Motivational and functional helplessness: The moderating effect of state versus action orientation.

    Julius Kuhl

  • Decomposing self-regulation and self-control: The Volitional Components Inventory.

    Julius Kuhl;Arno Fuhrmann

  • Representation of intentions: Persisting activation in memory.

    Thomas Goschke;Julius Kuhl

  • Emotion and Intuition Effects of Positive and Negative Mood on Implicit Judgments of Semantic Coherence

    Annette Bolte;Thomas Goschke;Julius Kuhl

  • From wishes to action: The dead ends and short cuts on the long way to action

    Heinz Heckhausen;Julius Kuhl

  • Action Control: The Maintenance of Motivational States

    J. Kuhl

  • A Theory of Self-regulation: Action versus State Orientation, Self-discrimination, and Some Applications

    Julius Kuhl

  • Striving for unwanted goals: stress-dependent discrepancies between explicit and implicit achievement motives reduce subjective well-being and increase psychosomatic symptoms.

    Nicola Baumann;Reiner Kaschel;Julius Kuhl

  • When nonsense sounds happy or helpless: The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT).

    Markus Quirin;Miguel Kazén;Julius Kuhl

  • Volitional facilitation of difficult intentions: joint activation of intention memory and positive affect removes stroop interference

    Julius Kuhl;Miguel Kazén

  • Trends and prospects in motivation research

    Anastasia Efklides;Julius Kuhl;Richard M. Sorrentino

  • Intuition, affect, and personality: Unconscious coherence judgments and self-regulation of negative affect

    Nicola Baumann;Julius Kuhl

  • Work–life balance and subjective well-being: The mediating role of need fulfilment

    Peter Gröpel;Julius Kuhl

  • Motivation, intention, and volition

    Frank Halisch;Julius Kuhl

Frequent Co-Authors

Sander L. Koole
Sander L. Koole Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mattie Tops
Mattie Tops Leiden University
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
Stefan Stieger
Stefan Stieger Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences
Thomas Goschke
Thomas Goschke TU Dresden
Stephen J. Read
Stephen J. Read University of Southern California
Michael D. Robinson
Michael D. Robinson North Dakota State University
Michael E. McCullough
Michael E. McCullough University of California, San Diego
Heidi Keller
Heidi Keller Osnabrück University
Colin G. DeYoung
Colin G. DeYoung University of Minnesota

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