Dr. Diana Steger

Competencies, Personality, Learning Environments | NEPS Personality
Competencies, Personality, Learning Environments | Personality

Vita

Research interests

  • Technology-based psychological assessement
  • Paradata
  • Process data
  • Declarative knowledge assessment
  • Publications

    2025

    Seitz, M., & Steger, D. (2025). The mind under pressure: What roles does education play in the relationship between chronic stress and cognitive ability? Journal of Intelligence, 13(2), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence13020013

    2024

    Klose, M., Handschuh, P., Steger, D., & Artelt, C. (2024). Not easy to get off track: Motivational trajectories of learners completing a non-formal online course. Computers in Human Behavior, 159, Article 108322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108322

    2023

    Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Steger, D., Wilhelm, O., & Schroeders, U. (2023). Public events knowledge in an age-heterogeneous sample: Reminiscence bump or bummer? Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000786
    Jankowsky, K., Steger, D., & Schroeders, U. (2023). Predicting lifetime suicide attempts in a community sample of adolescents using machine learning algorithms. Assessment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911231167490
    Steger, D., Jankowsky, K., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2023). The road to hell is paved with good intentions: How common practices in scale construction hurt validity. Assessment, 30(6), 1811-1824. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911221124846
    Steger, D., Weiss, S., & Wilhelm, O. (2023). The short inventory of creative activities (S-ICA): Compiling a short scale using ant colony optimization. Creativity Research Journal, 35(4), 645-660. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2022.2128574

    2022

    Klose, M., Steger, D., Fick, J., & Artelt, C. (2022). Decrypting log data: A meta-analysis on general online activity and learning outcome within digital learning environments. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 230(1), 3–15. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000484

    2021

    Steger, D., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2021). Caught in the act: Predicting cheating in unproctored knowledge assessment. Assessment, 28(3), 1004-1017. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120914970
    Weiss, S., Steger, D., Kaur, Y., Hildebrandt, A., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2021). On the trail of creativity: Dimensionality of divergent thinking and its relation with cognitive abilities, personality, and insight. European Journal of Personality, 35(3), 291-314. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2288

    2020

    Goecke, B., Weiss, S., Steger, D., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2020). Testing competing claims about overclaiming. Intelligence, 81, Article 101470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2020.101470
    Steger, D., Schroeders, U., & Gnambs, T. (2020). A meta-analysis of test scores in proctored and unproctored ability assessments. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 36(1), 174-184. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000494
    Weiss, S., Steger, D., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2020). A reappraisal of the threshold hypothesis of creativity and intelligence. Journal of Intelligence, 8(38), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence8040038

    2019

    Steger, D., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O. (2019). On the dimensionality of crystallized intelligence: A smartphone-based assessment. Intelligence, 72, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2018.12.002