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Email

hayley.jach@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Academic Fellow, Psychology
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Education
PhD
The University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-6808-8713

Dr Hayley K. Jach

Academic Fellow, Psychology
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

27 Scholarly works
1 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Understanding the Impact of Generative AI on Curiosity-Driven Learning
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Exploring the Convergence of Curiosity Across Behavioural Tasks and Personality Trait Questionnaires
    DOI: 10.1111/spc3.70113
  • 2025

    Journal article

    “The more I learn, the more I know nothing”: A longitudinal registered report of doctoral students’ uncertainty in learning
    DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102138
  • 2025

    Journal article

    A critique of motivation constructs to explain higher-order behavior: We should unpack the black box
    DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X24000426
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Response to the critiques (and encouragements) on our critique of motivation constructs
    DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X24001353
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Persistent Homology of Topic Networks for the Prediction of Reader Curiosity
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1364
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Individual differences in information demand have a low dimensional structure predicted by some curiosity traits
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2415236121
Hayley K. Jach

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Disentangling periodic and aperiodic resting EEG correlates of personality
    DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120628
  • 2024

    Journal article

    On the role of variation in measures, the worth of underpowered studies, and the need for tolerance among researchers: Some more reflections on Leising et al. from a methodological, statistical, and social-psychological perspective
    DOI: 10.1177/27000710241257413
  • 2024

    Journal article

    A critique of motivation constructs to explain higher-order behavior: We should unpack the black box
    DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X24000025
  • 2023

    Journal article

    How Personality Matters for Education Research
    DOI: 10.1007/s10648-023-09807-4

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