Publications
2026
Brinkmann, K., Schlegel, K., Scherer, K. R., & Gendolla, G. H. (2026). A well-powered test of task difficulty effects on cardiovascular indicators of mental effort. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 113382.
Sommer, N. R., Sokhn, N., Caldara, R., & Schlegel, K. (2026). Registered Report Stage I: A Registered Report on transfer effects of emotion recognition training: Impacts on Visual attention and emotional reactivity in healthy adults. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 226, 113414.
Zubler, R. L., Samikwa, E., Xenakis, D., Braun, T., & Schlegel, K. (2026). Digital Footprints of Personality: Sensing Emotional Competences, Sensory Processing Sensitivity, Well-Being and Loneliness via Smartphones. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41347-026-00631-5
2025
Hall, J. A., Murphy, N. A., Schlegel, K., & Back, M. D. (2025). Explicit Beliefs About Nonverbal Behavior and the Big Five Traits. Journal of Personality, 70030. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.70030
Völker, J., Schlegel, K., & Mortillaro, M. (2025). Personality traits and cognitive abilities in conflict management: Preliminary insights from a situational judgment test of emotional intelligence. Journal of Intelligence, 13(11), 143.
Sommer, N., & Schlegel, K. (2025). Navigating social waters: Exploring the impacts of trait cognitive emotion regulation and emotion recognition ability in naturalistic social situations. Journal of Social Psychology, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2025.2545942
Murphy, N. A., Ruben, M. A., Stosic, M., Renier, L. A., Schlegel, K., Hall, J. A., Schmid Mast, M., & Marroquín, B. (2025). How Long? How Many? How Much? Evidence of Convergent Validity Among Thin-Slice Behavioral Coding Metrics. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-025-00489-w
Schlegel, K., Sommer, N. R., & Mortillaro, M. (2025). Large language models are proficient in solving and creating emotional intelligence tests. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 80.
Gignac, G. E., & Schlegel, K. (2025). Age and ability-based emotional intelligence: Evidence from the Geneva Emotional Competence Test. Intelligence, 111, 101934.
Sommer, N. R., Carrard, V., Bourquin, C., Berney, A., & Schlegel, K. (2025). Social support and avoidance mediate positive and negative effects of emotion recognition ability on mental health in medical students. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 16910.
Carrard, V., Bourquin, C., Berney, S., Ranjbar, S., Schlegel, K., Gaume, J., Bart, P.-A., Schmid Mast, M., Preisig, M., & Berney, A. (2025). Trajectories of medical students’ empathy nowadays: A longitudinal study using a comprehensive framework of empathy. BMC Medical Education, 25(1), 534. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-07051-8
Gubler, D. A., Janelt, T., Roth, M., Schlegel, K., Guggisberg, J., & Troche, S. J. (2025). The DOES Scale: Measuring Sensory Processing Sensitivity as a Trait Constellation. Journal of Personality Assessment, 107(2), 205–220. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2405536
Hall, J. A., Gunnery, S. D., & Schlegel, K. (2025). Gender and Accuracy in Decoding Affect Cues: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Intelligence, 13(3), 38.
Preis, M. A., Schlegel, K., Rehbein, S., Lorenz, K., & Brockmeyer, T. (2025). Training emotion recognition in depression—An experimental study. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, .12540. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12540
Bralee, E., Mostazir, M., Warren, F. C., Newbold, A., Hulme, C., Cranston, T., Aas, B., Bear, H., Botella, C., Burkhardt, F., Ehring, T., Fazel, M., Fontaine, J. R. J., Frost, M., Garcia-Palacios, A., Greimel, E., Hößle, C., Hovasapian, A., Huyghe, V. E. I., Schlegel, K., … Watkins, E. R. (2025). Brief use of behavioral activation features predicts benefits of self-help app on depression symptoms: Secondary analysis of a selective prevention trial in young people. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 93(4), 293–306. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000917.
Schlegel, K., de Jong, M., & Boros, S. (2025). Conflict management 101: How emotional intelligence can make or break a manager. International Journal of Conflict Management, 36(1), 145–165.
Watkins, E. R., Warren, F. C., Newbold, A., Hulme, C., Cranston, T., Aas, B., Bear, H., Botella, C., Burkhardt, F., Ehring, T., Fazel, M., Fontaine, J. R. J., Frost, M., Garcia-Palacios, A., Greimel, E., Hößle, C., Hovasapian, A., Huyghe, V. E. I., Karpouzis, K., Schlegel, K., … Taylor, R. S. (2024). Emotional competence self-help app versus cognitive behavioural self-help app versus self-monitoring app to prevent depression in young adults with elevated risk (ECoWeB PREVENT): An international, multicentre, parallel, open-label, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Digital Health, 6(12), e894–e903.
2024
Watkins, E. R., Warren, F. C., Newbold, A., Hulme, C., Cranston, T., Aas, B., Bear, H., Botella, C., Burkhardt, F., Ehring, T., Fazel, M., Fontaine, J. R. J., Frost, M., Garcia-Palacios, A., Greimel, E., Hößle, C., Hovasapian, A., Huyghe, V. E. I., Karpouzis, K., Schlegel, K., … Taylor, R. S. (2024). Emotional competence self-help mobile phone app versus cognitive behavioural self-help app versus self-monitoring app to promote mental wellbeing in healthy young adults (ECoWeB PROMOTE): An international, multicentre, parallel, open-label, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Digital Health, 6(12), e904–e913. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(24)00159-7
Carrard, V., Berney, S., Bourquin, C., Ranjbar, S., Castelao, E., Schlegel, K., Gaume, J., Bart, P.-A., Schmid Mast, M., & Preisig, M. (2024). Mental health and burnout during medical school: Longitudinal evolution and covariates. Plos One, 19(4), e0295100
Sommer, N. R., & Schlegel, K. (2024). Beyond mean levels and linear relationships: The complex association between emotion recognition ability and well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 109, 104467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104467
2023
Mortillaro, M., & Schlegel, K. (2023). Embracing the emotion in emotional intelligence measurement: Insights from emotion theory and research. Journal of Intelligence, 11(11), 210.
Sommer, N., & Schlegel, K. (2023). The use of generative artificial intelligence in the creation of emotional intelligence tests. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JA3G5
Xenakis, D., Samikwa, E., Ajayi, J., Di Maio, A., Braun, T., & Schlegel, K. (2023). Towards Personality Detection and Prediction using Smartphone Sensor Data. 2023 21st Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet), 121–130. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10168869/