Björn Mattes

Technische Universität Darmstadt | TU · Institut für Psychologie

This chapter summarises the challenges of internet-based information problem-solving (IPS-I) tasks and highlights the importance of metacognitive judgements about one’s own ability in this context. Scarce prior research shows that using the internet affects metacognitive judgements regarding IPS tasks. For example, users tend to overestimate their...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global stressor with inter-individually differing influences on mental health trajectories. Polygenic Risk Scores (PRSs) for psychiatric phenotypes are associated with individual mental health predispositions. Elevated hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) and high PRSs are related to negative mental health outcomes. We anal...

Previous research indicates that using the internet in knowledge related tasks increases overestimation. We attempted to replicate this finding and extended previous research by explicitly manipulating the standards that participants used for the explanatory knowledge task in order to reduce the metacognitive bias. We conducted a 2x2 within-subject...

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are related to learning success and academic achievement of university students. Process models of self-regulated learning (SRL) suggest that daily academic motivation is affected by study satisfaction on the previous day. In this study, we conducted a secondary analysis of the data by Liborius et al. (2019) , in...