Contamination with positivity bias is a potential problem in virtually all areas of psychological
assessment. To determine the impact of positivity bias, one common approach is to embed …

Faking remains an unsolved problem in high-stakes personality assessment. It is important
that the evaluation of so-called faking-detection scales differs between psychological …

Cheating is a serious threat in unproctored ability assessment, irrespective of
countermeasures taken, anticipated consequences (high vs. low stakes), and test modality …

Q fever, caused by Coxiella burnetii, is a serious zoonotic disease in humans with a
worldwide distribution. Many species of animals are capable of transmitting C. burnetii, and …

Overclaiming has been described as people's tendency to overestimate their cognitive
abilities in general and their knowledge in particular. We discuss four different perspectives …

Working memory (WM) training has been proposed as a promising intervention to enhance
cognitive abilities, but convincing evidence for transfer to untrained abilities is lacking …

Assessing students' personal characteristics, as well as the structures and processes of
teaching and learning, is an integral part of the Programme for International Student …

An inaccurate self-assessment might hinder the effectiveness of the self-management of
one's learning, for example, people underestimating their knowledge might not utilize their …

Intellectual engagement (IE) refers to enjoyment of intellectual activities and is proposed as
causal for knowledge acquisition. The role of IE for cognitive development was examined …

In the present paper we investigate weekly fluctuations in the working memory capacity
(WMC) assessed over a period of 2 years. We use dynamical system analysis, specifically a …