Sarah Wolff, Jonathan Hilpert, Vanessa Vongkulluksn (all (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) and their colleagues at UNC published a paper in Contemporary Educational Psychology titled "Self-efficacy inertia: The role of competency beliefs and academic burden in achievement." This paper uses the random-intercept cross-lagged panel model to provide a more nuanced look at reciprocal relationships that parallel the complexity inherent in self-efficacy theory.