Publications

Boys and Things, Girls and People? Gender-Related Interest Patterns in Elementary School

Goecke, B., Golle, J., Zettler, I., & Schroeders, U.

2026 · Under review

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Cognitive Flexibility and Rigidity Across Cultures and Genders: Evidence from PISA Creative Problem-Solving

Camarda, A., Cassotti, M., Aljughaiman, A., Barbot, B., Benedek, M., Goecke, B., & Lubart, T.

2026 · Under review (major revision)

author list abbreviated; see the published version for the full list

Happy to share the manuscript on request.

Defining Creativity Together: A Field-Collaborative Ontology of Creativity

Green, A., Goecke, B., & Kaufman, J. C.

2026 · Under review

author list abbreviated; see the published version for the full list

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Enhancing Talent Selection in STEM: The Role of Creativity in Improving Selection Processes and Addressing the Leaky Pipeline

Wytopil, N., Jaggy, A., Goecke, B., Nagengast, B., & Trautwein, U.

2026 · Under review (major revision)

Happy to share the manuscript on request.

Ensuring Human Authorship in the Age of Generative AI: The FERC Framework for Governed Human-AI Collaboration

Sherson, J., Rafner, J., Reiter-Palmon, R., Lebuda, I., Söllner, M., Kenett, Y. N., Emruli, B., Rindle, M., Weiss, S., Goecke, B., & Mao, Y.

2026 · Under review

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Foundations of English as a Foreign Language Literacy: Cognitive and Linguistic Contributions to English Reading and Spelling in Young German Learners

Mlakar, H., & Goecke, B.

2026 · Under review

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Intelligent AI Use: Towards a Performance-Based Assessment of AI Literacy

Rindle, M., Goecke, B., Wilhelm, O., & Weiss, S.

2026 · Under review

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PINGUIN – Assessing Elementary Students' Initial Competencies

Schroeders, U., Achaa-Amankwaa, P., Walter, J., Endlich, D., Hasselhorn, M., Golle, J., & Goecke, B.

2026 · Under review

on behalf of the PINGUIN consortium

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The Creative Metaphor Task: A Psychometric Assessment of Metaphor Production in English and Spanish

Patel, R., Merseal, H., DiStefano, P., Hell, J. v., Beaty, R. E., & Goecke, B.

2026 · Under review (minor revision)

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The Future of Creativity Assessment

Weiss, S., Benedek, M., Acar, S., Baas, M., Barbot, B., Döbler, P., Dumas, D., Goecke, B., Green, A., Jaggy, A., Kenett, Y., Kyllonen, P., Lebuda, I., Miroshnik, K., Organisciak, P., Rafner, J., Seyedahmad, R., Reiter-Palmon, R., Salvi, C., & Beaty, R.

2026 · Under review (major revision)

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Who Makes the Cut? (Relative) Age Effects in Identifying Gifted Students

Heim, L., Goecke, B., Lösche, P., Hasselhorn, M., Trautwein, U., Golle, J., & Nagengast, B.

2026 · Under review

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Complementary Indicators of Knowledge Purporting and Their Validity

Goecke, B., Schittenhelm, C., & Wilhelm, O.

Assessment · 2026 · In press

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From Framework to Interface: FERC-Bot as a Metacognitive Training System for Governed Human–AI Collaboration

Rindle, M., Kjeldsen, F., Berg, M., Rafner, J., Kenett, Y. N., Goecke, B., Weiss, S., & Sherson, J.

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human and Artificial Rationalities · 2026 · In press

Zwischen Anspruch und Umsetzung: Diagnostische Impulse für die KI-Verordnung der Europäischen Union

Goecke, B., Gnambs, T., Kröhne, U., Schroeders, U., Wilhelm, O., & Weiss, S.

Policy Ultra-Briefs aus der Psychologie und angrenzenden Verhaltenswissenschaften, Reihe 2 – Künstliche Intelligenz · 2026 · In press · German

Being Female and Being Well-Situated Implies Higher Performance on Creative Thinking Tests: Evidence Across 62 Countries from PISA 2022

Goecke, B., Diedrich, J., Patzl, S., Forthmann, B., Benedek, M., & Weiss, S.

Thinking Skills and Creativity, 59, 101963 · 2026

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Development and Validation of a Preformal Assessment for Mathematical Proof Competency

Stein, X. V., Tsarava, K., & Goecke, B.

Thinking Skills and Creativity, 61, 102139 · 2026

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Künstliche Intelligenz und Individuelle Unterschiede: Eine Perspektive der Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik

Schoedel, R., Altgassen, E., Back, M. D., Buss, M., Bühner, M., Etzel, J. M., Goecke, B., Grinschgl, S., Grunenberg, E., Hätscher, O., Hommel, B. E., Kordsmeyer, T. L., Körner, S., Kuper, N., Mata, R., Mussel, P., Petrasch, A., Rammstedt, B., Rau, R., Short, C. A., Sindermann, C., Stachl, C., Stasielowicz, L., Sust, L., Thelen, J., Weiss, S., Wilhelm, O., Wulff, D., Wrzus, C., & Ziegler, M.

Psychologische Rundschau, 77(3), 149–155 · 2026 · German

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Leveraging Cattell's Data Types to Understand Creativity from Different Research Traditions

Weiss, S., Goecke, B., & Wilhelm, O.

Learning and Individual Differences, 129, 102928 · 2026

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Mapping Creativity in the PISA 2022 Student and Context Questionnaires: An Expert Evaluation of Content Validity of the Creativity Self- and Other-Report Scales

Weiss, S., Forthmann, B., Kapoor, H., Zielińska, A., Goecke, B., Dumas, D., Said-Metwaly, S., Urbaniak, J., Ivcevic, Z., Karwowski, M., Kaufman, J. C., & Barbot, B.

Journal of Educational Psychology · 2026

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Rechtschreibtestungen mit der Hamburger Schreib-Probe: Trenduntersuchungen am Beispiel einer Baden-Württembergischen Realschule

Busse, F., Goecke, B., Wilhelm, O., Böhnisch, M., & Weiss, S.

Diagnostica, 72(2), 81–91 · 2026 · German

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The Essence of Creative Thinking in PISA 2022: An Item-Level Machine Learning Approach to Construct Validity at the Facet Level

Kraus, E. B., Goecke, B., & Jaggy, A.

Thinking Skills and Creativity, 61, 102205 · 2026

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Zooming Out On Education: Making Valid Psychological Inferences From Large-Scale Assessment Data

Dumas, D., Goecke, B., Kagan, S., & Weiss, S.

Educational Psychology Review, 38(1), 2 · 2026

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A Cognitive Interpretation Is Not at Odds with Equal Odds: A Latent Variable Approach

Forthmann, B., Weiss, S., & Goecke, B.

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 44(4), 362–386 · 2025

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Assessing Decision Thresholds in Primary School Students Using Signal Detection Theory: Validating an Adapted Version of the Beads Task

Stark, L., Goecke, B., Jaggy, A., Krummenauer, J., Kuntze, S., Golle, J., & Nagengast, B.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 106346 · 2025

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Automated Assessment of Creativity in Multilingual Narratives

Luchini, S., Moosa, M., Patterson, J. D., Johnson, D., Baas, M., Barbot, B., Bashmakova, I., Benedek, M., Chen, Q., Corazza, G., Forthmann, B., Goecke, B., Ibrahim, S., Karwowski, M., Kenett, Y. N., Lubart, T., Miroshnik, K. G., Obialo, F., Ovando-Tellez, M., Primi, R., Puente, R., Stevenson, C., Volle, E., Hell, J. G. v., Yin, W., & Beaty, R. E.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Advance online publication · 2025

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Content Validity of Creativity Self-Report Questionnaires Within the PISA 2022 Framework

Goecke, B., Weiss, S., & Baptiste, B.

Journal of Creative Behavior, 59, e70026 · 2025

Benjamin Goecke and Selina Weiss contributed equally to this work.

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Introducing the Inventory of Creative Activities for Young Adolescents: An Adaptation and Validation Study

Weiss, S., Jaggy, A., & Goecke, B.

Thinking Skills and Creativity, 57, 101836 · 2025

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Making Connections: Creativity Supports Learning Through Associative Thinking

Luchini, S. A., Kaufman, J. C., Goecke, B., Wilhelm, O., Kenett, Y. N., Lei, D., Benedek, M., Hell, J. G. v., & Beaty, R. E.

npj Science of Learning, 10(1) · 2025

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Scoring German Alternate Uses Items Applying Large Language Models

Saretzki, J., Knopf, T., Forthmann, B., Goecke, B., Jaggy, A., Benedek, M., & Weiss, S.

Journal of Intelligence, 13(6), 64 · 2025

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Small Samples, Big Insights: Leveraging Bayesian SEM for Divergent Thinking

Elmdust, L. S., Weiss, S., & Goecke, B.

Journal of Intelligence, 13(11), 150 · 2025

Leila S. Elmdust and Selina Weiss contributed equally to this work.

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Automated Scoring of Scientific Creativity in German

Goecke, B., DiStefano, P., Aschauer, W., Haim, K., Beaty, R. E., & Forthmann, B.

The Journal of Creative Behavior, 58(3), 321–327 · 2024

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Driving Factors of Individual Differences in Broad Retrieval Ability: Gr Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Goecke, B., Weiss, S., & Wilhelm, O.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(2), 301–319 · 2024

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How Much Retrieval Is in Originality?

Weiss, S., Goecke, B., & Wilhelm, O.

The Journal of Creative Behavior, 58(3), 370–387 · 2024

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Measuring Cognitive Ability From Young Age: Development and Validation of a New Test Battery for Working Memory Capacity

Goecke, B., Zimny, L., Hartung, J., Lösche, P., Golle, J., & Wilhelm, O.

Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 5, 316–336 · 2024

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Planned Missingness Data Designs for Human Ratings in Creativity Research: A Practical Guide

Forthmann, B., Goecke, B., & Beaty, R. E.

Creativity Research Journal, 37(1), 167–178 · 2023

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Latin Square Tasks: A Multi-Study Evaluation

Hartung, J., Goecke, B., Schroeders, U., Schmitz, F., & Wilhelm, O.

Intelligence, 94, 101683 · 2022

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Stop Worrying About Multiple-Choice: Fact Knowledge Does Not Change with Response Format

Goecke, B., Staab, M., Schittenhelm, C., & Wilhelm, O.

Journal of Intelligence, 10, 102 · 2022

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The Nomological Net of Knowledge, Self-Reported Knowledge, and Overclaiming in Children

Goecke, B., Schroeders, U., Zettler, I., Schipolowski, S., Golle, J., & Wilhelm, O.

Journal of Personality Assessment · 2022

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Binding Costs in Processing Efficiency as Determinants of Cognitive Ability

Goecke, B., Schmitz, F., & Wilhelm, O.

Journal of Intelligence, 9(2), 18 · 2021

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Is Long-Term Memory Used in a Visuo-Spatial Change-Detection Paradigm?

Goecke, B., & Oberauer, K.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 1972–1981 · 2021

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Symmetric or Not? A Holistic Approach to the Measurement of Fluctuating Asymmetry from Facial Photographs

Weiss, S., Grewe, C. M., Olderbak, S. G., Goecke, B., Kaltwasser, L., & Hildebrandt, A.

Personality and Individual Differences, 166, 110137 · 2020

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Testing Competing Claims About Overclaiming

Goecke, B., Steger, D., Weiss, S., Schroeders, U., & Wilhelm, O.

Intelligence, 81, 101470 · 2020

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