Dr. Robert Wirth
robert.wirth(at)uni-wuerzburg.de
(dis) appointments via email
Room 307
Department of Psychology (III)
Röntgenring 11
97070 Würzburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)931 / 31 - 81855
Research Interests
- Rule violations & non-conformity
- Action control & ideomotor theory
- Affective and cognitive task disturbances
- Movement trajectory analysis
Publications
in press
Schaaf, M., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (accepted). Time expectancies in dual tasking: Evidence for proactive resource sharing? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Ellinghaus, R., Janczyk, M., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., Fischer, R., & Liepelt, R. (in press). Opposing Influences of Global and Local Stimulus-Hand-Proximity on Crosstalk Interference in Dual-Tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Schroeder, P. A., Mayer, K., Wirth, R., & Svaldi, J. (in press). Playing with temptation: Stopping to chocolate is more efficient, but also more extensive. Appetite.
doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2022.106383
2022
Foerster, A., Pfister, R., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2022). Post-execution monitoring in dishonesty. Psychological Research.
doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01691-x
Muth, F. V., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2022). Temporal Binding in multi-step action-event sequences is driven by altered effect perception. Consciousness and Cognition.
doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2022.103299
Schaaf, M., Kunde, W., & Wirth, R. (2022). Evidence for initially independent monitoring of responses and response effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(2), 128–138.
Schaaf, M., Kunde, W., & Wirth, R. (2022). Monitoring goal-irrelevant effects interferes with concurrent tasks. Acta Psychologica, 224, 103522.
doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103522
2020
Dignath, D., Wirth, R., Kühnhausen, J., Gawrilow, C., Kunde, W., & Kiesel, A. (2020). Motivation drives conflict adaptation. Motivation Science, 6(1), 84–89.
Muth, F. V., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2020). Temporal binding past the Libet clock: testing design factors for an auditory timer. Behavior Research Methods, 1-20.
doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01474-5
Wirth, R., Foerster, A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2020). Design choices: Empirical recommendations for designing two-dimensional finger tracking experiments. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 2394–2416.
doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01409-0
Wirth, R., Koch, I., & Kunde, W. (2020). Localizing modality compatibility effects: Evidence from dual-task interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(12), 1527–1537.
Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2020). Feature binding contributions to effect monitoring. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(6), 3144-3157.
doi: 10.3758/s13414-020-02036-9
2019
Foerster, A., Wirth, R., Berghoefer, F. L., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2019). Capacity limitations of dishonesty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(6), 943-961.
Pfister, R., Wirth, R., Weller, L., Foerster, A., & Schwarz, K. A. (2019). Taking shortcuts: Cognitive conflict during motivated rule-breaking. Journal of Economic Psychology, 71, 138-147.
doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2018.06.005
Wirth, R., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2019). How not to fall for the white bear: Combined frequency and recency manipulations diminish negation effects on overt behavior. Journal of Cognition, 2(1), 1-18.
2018
Foerster, A. Pfister, R., Schmidts, C., Dignath, D., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2018). Focused cognitive control in dishonesty: Evidence for predominantly transient conflict adaptation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(4), 578-602.
Kunde, W., Wirth, R., & Janczyk, M. (2018). The role of feedback delay in dual task performance. Psychological Research, 82(1), 157-166.
doi: 10.1007/s00426-017-0874-6
Schwarz, K.A.*, Pfister, R.*, Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2018). Dissociating action-effect activation and effect-based response selection. Acta Psychologica, 188, 16-24.
doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.05.007
Steinhauser, R., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., Janczyk, M., & Steinhauser, M. (2018). Common mechanisms in error monitoring and action effect monitoring. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(6), 1159–1171.
doi: 10.3758/s13415-018-0628-y
Wirth, R., Foerster, A., Herbort, O., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2018). This is how to be a rule breaker. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 14(1), 21-37.
Wirth, R., Foerster, A., Rendel, H., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2018). Rule-violations sensitise towards negative and authority-related stimuli. Cognition & Emotion, 32(3), 480-493.
doi: 10.1080/02699931.2017.1316706
Wirth, R., Janczyk, M., & Kunde, W. (2018). Effect monitoring in dual-task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(4), 553-571.
Wirth, R., Steinhauser, R., Janczyk, M., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2018). Long-term and short-term action-effect links and their impact on effect monitoring. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 44(8), 1186-1198.
2017
Foerster, A., Wirth, R., Herbort, O., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2017). Lying upside-down: Alibis reverse cognitive burdens of dishonesty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 23(3), 301-319.
Foerster, A., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2017). The dishonest mind set in sequence. Psychological Research, 81(4), 878-899.
doi: 10.1007/s00426-016-0780-3
Jusyte, A., Pfister, R., Mayer, S. V., Schwarz, K. A., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., & Schöneberg, M. (2017). Smooth criminal: Convicted rule-breakers show reduced cognitive conflict during deliberate rule violations. Psychological Research, 81(5), 939-946.
doi: 10.1007/s00426-016-0798-6
Kunde, W., Schmidts, C., Wirth, R., & Herbort, O. (2017). Action effects are coded as transitions from current to future stimulation: Evidence from compatibility effects in tracking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 477-486.
Pfister, R., Schwarz, K. A., Wirth, R., & Lindner, I. (2017). My command, my act: Observation inflation in face-to-face interactions. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 13(2), 166-176.
Wirth, R. (2017). Consequences of bending and breaking the rules. PhD-Thesis.
2016
Pfister, R., Wirth, R., Schwarz, K. A., Foerster, A., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2016). The electrophysiological signature of deliberate rule violations. Psychophysiology, 53, 1870-1877.
Pfister, R., Wirth, R., Schwarz, K. A., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2016). Burdens of non-conformity: Motor execution reveals cognitive conflict during deliberate rule violations. Cognition, 147, 93-99.
doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.009
Wirth, R.*, Dignath, D.*, Pfister, R., Kunde, W., & Eder, A. B. (2016). Attracted by rewards: Disentangling the motivational influence of rewarding and punishing targets and distractors. Motivation Science, 2(3), 143-156.
Wirth, R., Pfister, R., Brandes, J., & Kunde, W. (2016). Stroking me softly: Body-related effects in effect-based action control. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(6), 1755-1770.
doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1151-2
Wirth, R., Pfister, R., Foerster, A., Huestegge, L., & Kunde, W. (2016). Pushing the rules: Effects and aftereffects of deliberate rule violations. Psychological Research, 80(5), 838-852.
doi: 10.1007/s00426-015-0690-9
Wirth, R., Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2016). Asymmetric transfer effects between cognitive and affective task disturbances. Cognition & Emotion, 30(3), 399-416.
doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1009002
2015
Wirth, R., Pfister, R., Janczyk, M., & Kunde, W. (2015). Through the portal: Effect anticipation in the central bottleneck. Acta Psychologica, 160, 141-151.
doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.07.007
2014
Pfister, R., Foerster, A., Schwarz, K.A., & Wirth, R. (2014). Lässt sich ein guter Hochstapler als solcher entlarven? Wenn ja: Wie? In: W. Schwanebeck (Ed.), Über Hochstapelei: Perspektiven auf eine kulturelle Praxis (63-72). Berlin: Neofelis.
Pfister, R., Janczyk, M., Wirth, R., Dignath, D., & Kunde, W. (2014). Thinking with portals: Revisiting kinematic cues to intention. Cogniton, 133(2), 464-473.
doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.07.012
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Invited Talks
Wirth, R. (October 2021). Using continuous movement data for psychological research: A closer look at designing and analyzing two-dimensional tracking experiments.
Invited workshop at the Writing Retreat of the BRAC Forschungsgruppe in Freudenberg,
conducted by the University of Trier, Germany.
Wirth, R. (October 2016). Effects and aftereffects of violating rules.
Invited talk at the Department of Psychology (Prof. Dr. Kiesel),
University of Freiburg, Germany.
Wirth, R. (November 2015). Dual task crosstalk and psychometric Intelligence: A correlation approach.
Invited talk at the Department of Psychology III (Prof. Dr. Huestegge),
University of Würzburg, Germany.
Wirth, R. (June 2015). Experimental research on tablets and iPads: Possibilities, limitations, and examples of touchscreen-based experimental research.
Invited talk at the Department of General Psychology II (Prof. Dr. Rothermund),
University of Jena, Germany.
Wirth, R. (November 2013). Of rules and rebels: Effects and aftereffects of rule violations and rule inversions.
Invited talk at the Department of Psychology III (Prof. Dr. Huestegge),
University of Würzburg, Germany.
