Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Thomas Götz

T: +43-1-4277-47401

https://bildung-psy.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/thomas-goetz/

Summer term 2025

200138 SE Theory and Empirical Research (Development and Education) 1

200139 SE Master's Thesis Seminar (A)

200173 VO EC Educational Psychology and Evaluation

200214 SE Advanced Seminar: Development and Education (A)

Winter term 2024

200007 VO Educational Psychology

200125 SE Advanced Seminar: Development and Education

200134 SE Seminar in Applied Psychology: Development and Education

200193 SE Master's Thesis Seminar (A)

200200 SE Theory and Empirical Research (Development and Education) 2

540006 SE Seminar for Doctoral Students

Summer term 2024

200094 SE Seminar in Applied Psychology: Development and Education

200138 SE Theory and Empirical Research (Development and Education) 1

200139 SE Master's Thesis Seminar (A)

200173 VO EC Educational Psychology and Evaluation

200214 SE Advanced Seminar: Development and Education (A)

540005 SE Seminar for Doctoral Students

Götz, T., Frenzel, A. C., & Stempfer, L. (2025). Emotionen im Lern- und Leistungskontext. In M. Syring, T. Bohl, A. Gröschner, & A. Scheunpflug (Eds.), Studienbuch Bildungswissenschaften 1: Grundbegriffe klären und Forschungszugänge eröffnen (1 ed., pp. 85-107). Verlag Julius Klinkhardt. https://doi.org/10.36198/9783838562186

Zhang, K., Wenshu, L., Wang, Z., Götz, T., Lipnevich, A. A., & Yanagida, T. (2025). Beyond the blues: The protective influence of adaptability and well-being on university students’ mental health. Journal of Early Adolescence, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12428

Becker, E. S., Hascher , T., Götz, T., & Staub, F. C. (2025). Exploring antecedents of student teachers' emotions during instructional experiences: A situation-specific analysis. British Journal of Educational Psychology, (00), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12738

Krannich, M., Calic, B., Götz, T., Ullrich, A.-L., & Lipnevich, A. A. (Accepted/In press). Investigating the relationship between boredom and creativity: The role of academic challenge. Education Sciences.

Boehme, K. L., Götz, T., Feuchter, M., & Preckel, F. (2025). Is Boredom the Opposite of Interest? A Longitudinal Reciprocal Effect Study. Educational Psychology Review, 37(15). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-09991-5

Götz, T., Fries, J., Stempfer, L., Kraiger, L., Stoll, S., Baumgartner, L., Diamant, Y. L., Porics, C., Sonntag, B., Würglauer, S., van Tilburg, W. A. P., & Pekrun, R. (Accepted/In press). Spiritual boredom is associated with over- and underchallenge, lack of value, and reduced motivation. Communications Psychology.

Lavelle-Hill, R., Frenzel, A. C., Götz, T., Lichtenfeld, S., Marsh, H. W., Pekrun, R., Sakaki, M., Smith, G., & Murayama, K. (2024). How the predictors of math achievement change over time: A longitudinal machine learning approach. Journal of Educational Psychology, 116(8), 1383–1403. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000863

Schwartze, M., Frenzel, A. C., Götz, T., Lohbeck, A., Bednorz, D., Kleine, M., & Pekrun, R. (2024). Boredom due to being over- or under-challenged in mathematics: A latent profile analysis. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 94(3), 947-958. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12695

Graf, E., Donath, J. L., Botes, E., Voracek, M., & Götz, T. (2024). The associations between discrete emotions and political learning: A cross-disciplinary systematic review and meta-analysis.ü. Educational Psychology Review, 36(3), Article 77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09893-y

Dürlinger, F., Götz, T., & Pietschnig, J. (2024). Do religiosity and spirituality differ in their relationship with crystallized intelligence? Evidence from the General Social Survey. Journal of Intelligence, 12(7), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence12070065

Bieleke, M., Wolff, W., Martarelli, C. S., Tonne Artak, C., Asani, N., Baillifard, A., Bertrams, A., Brielmann, A., Caldwell, L. L., Chan, C. S., Coppin, G., Danckert, J., Dang, V., Daniels, L., Dayan, P., Drody, A., Elpidorou, A., Erdemli, A., Fischer, U., ... Yakobi, O. (2024). Overview of current directions in boredom research. In M. Bieleke, W. Wolff, & C. Martarelli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom (pp. 382-391). Routledge.

Götz, T., Stempfer, L., Pekrun, R., van Tilburg, W., & Lipnevich, A. A. (2024). Academic boredom. In M. Bieleke, W. Wolff, & C. S. Martarelli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom (pp. 225-249). Routledge.

Pekrun, R., & Götz, T. (2024). Boredom: A control-value theory approach. In M. Bieleke, W. Wolff, & C. S. Martarelli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom (pp. 74-89). Routledge.

Graf, E., Stempfer, L., Muis, K., & Götz, T. (2024). Classroom emotions in civic education: A multilevel approach to antecedents and effects. Learning and Instruction, 90, Article 101869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101869

Götz, T., Botes, E., Resch, L. M., Weiss, S., Frenzel, A. C., & Ebner, M. (2024). Teachers emotionally profit from positive school leadership: Applying the PERMA-Lead model to the control-value theory of emotions. Teaching and teacher education, 141, Article 104517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104517

Botes, E., Dewaele, J.-M., Greiff, S., & Götz, T. (2024). Can personality predict foreign language classroom emotions? The devil’s in the detail. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 46(1), 51-74. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263123000153

Graf, E., Götz, T., Bieleke, M., & Murano, D. (2024). Feeling politics at high school: Antecedents and effects of emotions in civic education. Political Psychology, 45(1), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12907

Götz, T. (2024). Unangenehmes Erleben. Ist es gut, sich hin und wieder zu langweilen? Forschung und Lehre: Alles was die Wissenschaft bewegt, 24(2), 122-123.

Frenzel, A. C., Götz, T., & Schmid, T. (2024). Bedeutung von Emotionen in interprofessionellen Lehr- und Lernkontexten. In U. Walkenhorst, & M. Fischer (Eds.), Interprofessionelle Bildung für die Gesundheitsversorgung (pp. 1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65420-0_5-1

Götz, T., Steiner, W., Graf, E., Stempfer, L., Ristl, C., Rupprecht, F., Donath, J. L., Botes, E., & Nikitin, J. (2024). Assessing psychological variables on mobile devices: An introduction to the experience sampling app ESM-Quest. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1271422. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1271422

Educational Psychology and Societal Change
Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology
Universitaetsstrasse 7
1010 Vienna, Austria

Email: thomas.goetz@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-47401

Universitäre/wissenschaftliche Tätigkeiten

Since 2019	Professor; Educational Psychology and Societal Change, University of Vienna
2007-2019	Professor [W3]; Educational Sciences, University of Konstanz and the Thurgau University of Education
2016-2019	Head of the Binational School of Education of the University of Konstanz
Since 2011	Adjunct Professor at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada
2006-2007	Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Erfurt
2006	Visiting Professor [W3] for Educational Psychology at the University of Heidelberg
2002-2006	Scientific Assistant; Department of Educational Psychology, Diagnostics and Evaluation, University of Munich (Head Prof. Dr. Pekrun)

Educational Background

2005	Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Venia legendi for Educational Psychology and Empirical Education
1999-2002	Dr. phil., Psychology (summa cum laude)
1995-1999	Study in psychology (diploma), University of Regensburg
1996-1998	Extracurricular education in Oral Communication at the University of Regensburg
1990-1995	Music diploma (piano, organ, conducting), Universities of Regensburg and Munich

Memberships

x European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction
x American Educational Research Association
x German Society of Psychology
x “Educational Psychology” Special Interest Group, German Society of Psychology
x German Society of Education

Positive School Leadership und das emotionale Erleben von Lehrkräften

Thomas Götz (Speaker), Elouise Botes (Speaker), Lea M Resch (Speaker), Sina Weiss (Speaker), Anne C Frenzel (Speaker) & Markus Ebner (Speaker)

Jan 2025