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Dr. Jonathan Fries, BSc MSc
Jonathan Fries
T: +43-1-4277-47404
Summer term 2025
200054 VU Educational Psychology
Winter term 2024
200094 VU Educational Psychology
200220 VU Educational Psychology
Summer term 2024
200201 SE Bachelor’s Thesis
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Stempfer, L., Stoll, S., Fries, J., Pekrun, R., & Götz, T. (2025). Boredom and Arousal: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis.. Paper presented at Consortium of European Research on Emotion, Grenoble, France.
Fries, J., Oberleiter, S., Bodensteiner, F. A., Fries, N., & Pietschnig, J. (2025). Multilevel multiverse meta-analysis indicates lower IQ as a risk factor for physical and mental illness. Communications Psychology, 3(74). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00245-2
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. (2025). Spiritual boredom is associated with over- and underchallenge, lack of value, and reduced motivation. Communications Psychology, 3(35). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00216-7
Oberleiter, S., Fries, J., Dejardin, F., Heller, J., Schaible, C., Vetter, M., Voracek, M., & Pietschnig, J. (2024). Inconsistent Flynn effect patterns may be due to a decreasing positive manifold: Cohort-based measurement-invariant IQ test score changes from 2005 to 2024. Intelligence: a multidisciplinary journal, 107, Article 101867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2024.101867
Zeilinger, E. L., Brunevskaya, N., Wurzer, J., Oberleiter, S., Fries, J., Fuchs, A., Herscovici, A., Kum, L., Masel, E. K., & Pietschnig, J. (2024). Effectiveness of cloth face masks to prevent viral spread: A meta-analysis. Journal of Public Health, 46(1), E84-E90. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad205
Fries, J., Oberleiter, S., & Pietschnig, J. (2024). Say farewell to bland regression reporting: Three forest plot variations for visualizing linear models. PLoS ONE, 19(2), Article e0297033. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297033
Oberleiter, S., Patzl, S., Fries, J., Diedrich, J., Voracek, M., & Pietschnig, J. (2024). Measurement-Invariant Fluid Anti-Flynn Effects in Population—Representative German Student Samples (2012–2022). Journal of Intelligence, 12(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence12010009
Dürlinger, F., Fries, J., Yanagida, T., & Pietschnig, J. (2023). Religiosity does not prevent cognitive declines: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. Intelligence: a multidisciplinary journal, 101, Article 101796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.101796
Oberleiter, S., Fries, J., Schock, L. S., Steininger, B., & Pietschnig, J. (2023). Predicting cross-national sex differences in large-scale assessments of students’ reading literacy, mathematics, and science achievement: Evidence from PIRLS and TIMSS. Intelligence: a multidisciplinary journal, 100, Article 101784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.101784
Fries, J., Baudson, T. G., Kovacs, K., & Pietschnig, J. (2022). Bright, but allergic and neurotic? A critical investigation of the “overexcitable genius” hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 1051910. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1051910
Fries, J., Kovacs, K., Zeilinger, E. L., & Pietschnig, J. (2022). Is There a “Gifted Personality”? Initial Evidence for Differences between MENSA and General Population Members in the HEXACO Personality Inventory. Journal of Intelligence, 10(4), Article 92. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10040092
Fries, J., & Pietschnig, J. (2022). An intelligent mind in a healthy body? Predicting health by cognitive ability in a large European sample. Intelligence: a multidisciplinary journal, 93, Article 101666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2022.101666
Leiss, U., Schiller, A., Fries, J., Voitl, P., & Peyrl, A. (2021). Self-Care Strategies and Job Satisfaction in Pediatricians: What We Can Do to Prevent Burnout—Results of a Nationwide Survey. Frontiers in Pediatrics , 9, Article 722356. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.722356
Pietschnig, J., & Fries, J. (2021). Cognitive ability predicts physical and mental health in a large European sample. Paper presented at 16th Conference on Personality and Psychological Assessment (DPPD), Ulm, Germany.
Fries, J., & Pietschnig, J. (2021). Intelligence predicts physical and mental health: Evidence from the study of health and retirement in Europe (SHARE). Paper presented at 21st Annual Conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR), Netherlands.
Weiler-Wichtl, L., Fohn-Erhold, V., Schlifelner, J., Fries, J., Bauer, E., Schwarzinger, A., Kienesberger, A., & Leiss, U. (2020). TIS - Talking in Symbols. Development of a Tool for Nonverbal Communication after Language Barriers in Pediatric Oncology. Klinische Pädiatrie, 232(6), 307-313. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1213-6062
Fries, J., & Voracek, M. (2018). Die Mär vom breiten Männergesicht: Meta-Analyse zum Geschlechtseffekt in Gesichtsbreite (facial width-to-height ratio).. Paper presented at Symposium (co-organized with U. S. Tran): Das Netzwerk der Open-Science-Initiativen (NOSI) an Psychologie-Instituten: Eine Werkschau von Projekten aus Wien, Linz, Austria.
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Are figural reasoning abilities declining in German students? A decade-long investigation on measurement invariant tasks (2012-2022).

Sandra Oberleiter (Speaker), Sabine Patzl (Contributor), Jonathan Fries (Contributor), Jennifer Diedrich (Contributor), Martin Voracek (Contributor) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

16 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Does lower intelligence contribute to physical and mental illness? Insights from a three-level multiverse meta-analysis

Jonathan Fries (Speaker), Sandra Oberleiter (Contributor) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

16 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

A negative Flynn effect for figural reasoning in population-representative measurement invariant German student test scores (2012-2022)

Sandra Oberleiter (Speaker), Sabine Patzl (Contributor), Jonathan Fries (Contributor), Jennifer Diedrich (Contributor), Martin Voracek (Contributor) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Erratic Flynn effect patterns may be due to the positive manifold evolution: Cohort-based measurement-invariant IQ test score changes from 2005 to 2024

Jakob Pietschnig (Speaker), Jonathan Fries (Contributor), Florence Dejardin (Contributor), Johanna Heller (Contributor), Christian Schaible (Contributor), Marco Vetter (Contributor), Martin Voracek (Contributor) & Sandra Oberleiter (Contributor)

2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Is religiosity protective against cognitive declines? Cross-temporal and longitudinal associations of religiosity and cognitive abilities in European adults aged 50+

Florian Dürlinger (Speaker), Jonathan Fries (Contributor), Takuya Yanagida (Contributor) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Differences in HEXACO personality between a sample of intellectually gifted individuals and the general population

Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Do religious people experience a slower cognitive decline? Cross-temporal and cross-sectional examinations of religiosity and cognitive ability associations in retirement-aged Europeans.

Florian Dürlinger (Speaker), Jonathan Fries (Contributor) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

How intelligence predicts future health: A comprehensive meta-analysis of cognitive epidemiology research

Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Predicting cross-national sex differences in educational achievement by socioeconomic macro indicators

Sandra Oberleiter (Speaker), Jonathan Fries (Contributor), Laura Sophia Schock (Contributor), Benedikt Steininger (Contributor) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Premorbid intelligence predicts later physical and mental health: A meta-analysis of two decades’ research in cognitive epidemiology

Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Religiosity does not prevent cognitive declines: Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Florian Dürlinger (Speaker), Jonathan Fries (Contributor) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Higher intelligence is associated with better health, but why?

Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

12 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Schlau, aber fragil und problembeladen? Eine Untersuchung der „Overexcitable Genius“-Hypothese in einer internationalen Hochintelligentenstichprobe

Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Speaker)

12 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Is there truth to the “overexcitable genius” stereotype? A multinational survey among members of the MENSA society

Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Speaker)

5 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Associations of religiosity and cognitive abilities in European adults aged 50+ years

Florian Dürlinger (Speaker), Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Speaker)

25 Jul 2022 → 27 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

High intelligence is associated with mental health problems in a sample of intellectually gifted Europeans

Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Speaker)

25 Jul 2022 → 27 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Gifted individuals exhibit elevated rates of mental health troubles: Evidence from an international survey of MENSA members

Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

24 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Physical and mental health are associated with cognitive ability: Evidence from a representative longitudinal survey in older adults

Jonathan Fries (Speaker) & Jakob Pietschnig (Contributor)

4 Feb 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology

Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG)
1010 Wien
Room: B0613

T: +43-1-4277-47404

jonathan.fries@univie.ac.at