Reinhard Pekrun

Reinhard Pekrun is a leading Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Faculty of Education and Arts. His research focuses on academic emotions, control-value theory, and their interplay with motivation, student engagement, and educational achievement. He has pioneered frameworks like the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ) and its adaptations for diverse populations.

• Key Research Areas: Academic emotions, boredom, motivation theory, emotional self-regulation, cross-cultural educational psychology
• Methodological Expertise: Longitudinal studies, experience-sampling methods, network analysis, cross-national comparisons

Recent publications explore test boredom, emotional contagion in classrooms, and control-value theory as a general model for human emotions. Collaborations span institutions across 72 societies, with methodological synergies in self-concept research and emotional measurement. Awards and grants include international trials on mental well-being apps and large-scale studies on peer victimization.