What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Social psychology
- Cognition
- Social science
His scientific interests lie mostly in Social psychology, Academic achievement, Developmental psychology, Boredom and Anxiety.
His Social psychology research includes themes of Cognitive psychology, Test anxiety, Educational psychology and Social cognition.
His Academic achievement research includes elements of School learning and Goal orientation.
Many of his research projects under Developmental psychology are closely connected to Trait with Trait, tying the diverse disciplines of science together.
The various areas that Reinhard Pekrun examines in his Boredom study include Longitudinal study and Anger.
His work in Anxiety addresses issues such as Competence, which are connected to fields such as Human Females.
His most cited work include:
- Academic Emotions in Students' Self-Regulated Learning and Achievement: A Program of Qualitative and Quantitative Research (1977 citations)
- The Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions: Assumptions, Corollaries, and Implications for Educational Research and Practice (1555 citations)
- Measuring emotions in students’ learning and performance: The Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ) (741 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Reinhard Pekrun mainly investigates Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Boredom, Academic achievement and Anxiety.
The Social psychology study combines topics in areas such as Cognitive psychology and Test anxiety.
His Developmental psychology study incorporates themes from Longitudinal study, Cognition and Personality.
His Boredom study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Control, Shame, Curiosity and Value.
The Academic achievement study which covers Educational psychology that intersects with Moderation.
Anxiety connects with themes related to Anger in his study.
He most often published in these fields:
- Social psychology (46.60%)
- Developmental psychology (36.25%)
- Boredom (36.57%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?
- Boredom (36.57%)
- Anxiety (30.42%)
- Social psychology (46.60%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His primary scientific interests are in Boredom, Anxiety, Social psychology, Developmental psychology and Cognition.
His Boredom study also includes
- Anger which intersects with area such as Shame,
- Value which intersects with area such as Perception.
His biological study deals with issues like Psychological intervention, which deal with fields such as Gerontology and Quality of life.
His study in Social psychology is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Structural equation modeling and Generalizability theory.
His Developmental psychology research is mostly focused on the topic Academic achievement.
Reinhard Pekrun has researched Cognition in several fields, including Field and Educational psychology.
Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Expectancy-value theory of anxiety: Overview and implications. (79 citations)
- The murky distinction between self-concept and self-efficacy. Beware of lurking jingle-jangle fallacies (66 citations)
- Emotion Regulation in Achievement Situations: An Integrated Model (35 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Social psychology
- Cognition
- Social science
Reinhard Pekrun spends much of his time researching Curiosity, Epistemology, Generalizability theory, Pride and Shame.
His Curiosity study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Surprise and Educational psychology.
His work carried out in the field of Educational psychology brings together such families of science as Big Five personality traits, Object, Anticipation and Dynamics.
His Pride research covers fields of interest such as Anger, Anxiety and Social psychology.
His work is dedicated to discovering how Anger, Foreign language are connected with Value and Boredom and other disciplines.
His research in Social psychology intersects with topics in Test, Contrast and Fallacy.
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