| Implicit theories about willpower predict self-regulation and grades in everyday life. V Job, GM Walton, K Bernecker, CS Dweck Journal of personality and social psychology 108 (4), 637, 2015 | 300 | 2015 |
| Beliefs about willpower determine the impact of glucose on self-control V Job, GM Walton, K Bernecker, CS Dweck Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (37), 14837-14842, 2013 | 219 | 2013 |
| Persistence and disengagement in personal goal pursuit V Brandstätter, K Bernecker Annual Review of Psychology 73 (1), 271-299, 2022 | 124 | 2022 |
| Implicit theories about willpower predict the activation of a rest goal following self-control exertion. V Job, K Bernecker, S Miketta, M Friese Journal of personality and social psychology 109 (4), 694, 2015 | 120 | 2015 |
| The process of disengagement from personal goals: Reciprocal influences between the experience of action crisis and appraisals of goal desirability and attainability M Ghassemi, K Bernecker, M Herrmann, V Brandstätter Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 43 (4), 524-537, 2017 | 102 | 2017 |
| Mindset theory K Bernecker, V Job Social psychology in action: Evidence-based interventions from theory to …, 2019 | 88 | 2019 |
| Beyond self-control: Mechanisms of hedonic goal pursuit and its relevance for well-being K Bernecker, D Becker Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 47 (4), 627-642, 2021 | 76 | 2021 |
| Implicit theories about willpower predict subjective well‐being K Bernecker, M Herrmann, V Brandstätter, V Job Journal of personality 85 (2), 136-150, 2017 | 75 | 2017 |
| Avoidance orientation and the escalation of negative communication in intimate relationships. M Kuster, K Bernecker, S Backes, V Brandstätter, FW Nussbeck, ... Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 109 (2), 262, 2015 | 74 | 2015 |
| Effects of practicing self-control on academic performance. V Job, M Friese, K Bernecker Motivation Science 1 (4), 219, 2015 | 68 | 2015 |
| Too exhausted to go to bed: Implicit theories about willpower and stress predict bedtime procrastination K Bernecker, V Job British Journal of Psychology 111 (1), 126-147, 2020 | 64 | 2020 |
| Beliefs about willpower moderate the effect of previous day demands on next day’s expectations and effective goal striving K Bernecker, V Job Frontiers in Psychology 6, 1496, 2015 | 51 | 2015 |
| No Pain, no Gain? Investigating motivational mechanisms of game elements in cognitive tasks K Bernecker, M Ninaus Computers in Human Behavior 114, 106542, 2021 | 47 | 2021 |
| Autonomous goal striving promotes a nonlimited theory about willpower V Sieber, L Flückiger, J Mata, K Bernecker, V Job Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 45 (8), 1295-1307, 2019 | 47 | 2019 |
| Are implicit motives the need to feel certain affect? Motive–affect congruence predicts relationship satisfaction V Job, K Bernecker, CS Dweck Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38 (12), 1552-1565, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Beliefs about willpower are related to therapy adherence and psychological adjustment in patients with type 2 diabetes K Bernecker, V Job Basic and Applied Social Psychology 37 (3), 188-195, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
| Assessing implicit motives with an online version of the picture story exercise K Bernecker, V Job Motivation and Emotion 35, 251-266, 2011 | 41 | 2011 |
| Approach and avoidance relationship goals and couples’ nonverbal communication during conflict K Bernecker, M Ghassemi, V Brandstätter European Journal of Social Psychology 49 (3), 622-636, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| Implicit theories about willpower in resisting temptations and emotion control K Bernecker, V Job Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| Temporal dynamics of couples’ communication behaviors in conflict discussions: A longitudinal analysis L Leuchtmann, A Milek, K Bernecker, FW Nussbeck, S Backes, M Martin, ... Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 36 (9), 2937-2960, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |