Dr. Anna Förster

Research Interests

Lie-telling

Cognitive control

Publications

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Foerster, A., Moeller, B., Frings, C., Pfister, R. (2022). What is left after an error? Towards a comprehensive account of goal-based binding and retrieval. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02609-w

Foerster, A., Moeller, B., Huffman, G., Kunde, W., Frings, C., & Pfister, R. (2022). The human cognitive system corrects traces of error commission on the fly. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 151(6), 1419–1432. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001139 pdf.

Foerster, A., Pfister, R., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2022). Post-execution monitoring in dishonesty. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01691-x pdf. 

Foerster, A., Schiltenwolf, M., Dignath, D., & Pfister, R. (2022). Binding error-induced control states. Journal of Cognition, 5(1): 24, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.213

Foerster, A., Steinhauser, M., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2022). Error cancellation. Royal Society Open Science, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210397

Parmar, J., Foerster, A., Pfister, R., & Rothermund, K. (2022). Frankly, my error, I don’t give a damn: Retrieval of goal-based but not coactivation-based bindings after erroneous responses. Journal of Cognition, 5(1): 34, 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.224

Pfister, R., Bogon, J., Foerster, A., Kunde, W., & Moeller, B. (2022). Binding and retrieval of response durations: Subtle evidence for episodic processing of continuous movement features. Journal of Cognition, 5(1): 23, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.212

Pfister, R., & Foerster, A. (2022). How to measure post-error slowing: The case of pre-error speeding. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 435-443. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01631-4

Reis, M., Pfister, R., & Foerster, A. (2022). Cognitive load promotes honesty. Psychological Research. doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01686-8

Foerster, A., Rothermund, K., Parmar, J. J., Moeller, B., Frings, C., Pfister, R. (2021). Goal-based binding of irrelevant stimulus features for action slips. Experimental Psychology, 68(4), 206-213. pdf.  https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000525

Foerster, A., Schmidts, C., Kleinsorge, T., & Kunde, W. (2020). Affective distraction along the flexibility-stability continuum. Cognition and Emotion, 34(3), 438-449.  doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1635084

Schmidts, C., Foerster, A., Kleinsorge, T., & Kunde, W. (2020). Proactive control of affective distraction: Experience-based but not expectancy-based. Cognition, 194, 104072. pdf. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104072

Schmidts, C., Foerster, A., & Kunde, W. (2020). Situation selection and cognitive conflict: Explicit knowledge is necessary for conflict avoidance. Cognition & Emotion, Advance Online Publication. pdf  https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1736006

Wirth, R., Foerster, A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2020). Design choices: Empirical recommendations for designing two-dimensional finger tracking experiments. Behavior Research Methods, 52(6), 2394–2416. pdf. doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01409-0

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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000510

Kunde, W., Foerster, A., Weigelt, M., & Dignath, D. (2019). On the ball: Short-term consequences of movement fakes. Acta Psychologica, 198, 8. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102872

Pfeuffer, C. U., Pfister, R., Foerster, A., Przybylski, F., & Kiesel, A. (2019). Binding Lies: Flexible retrieval of honest and dishonest behavior Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(2), 157-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000600

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2018.06.005  pdf.

Schmidts, C., Foerster, A., & Kunde, W. (2018). Conflict Modification: Predictable Production of Congruent Situations Facilitates Responding in a Stroop Task. Psychological Research. doi:10.1007/s00426-018-1021-8

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.  doi:10.1037/xhp0000480

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.  doi:10.5709/acp.0235-2

Wirth, R., Foerster, A., Rendel, H., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2018). Rule-violations sensitise towards negative and authority-related stimuli. Cognition and Emotion, 32(3), 480-493. doi:10.1080/02699931.2017.1316706

Foerster, A.*, Pfister, R.*, Reuss, H. and Kunde, W. (2017). Commentary: Feeling the Conflict: The Crucial Role of Conflict Experience in Adaptation. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1405.  doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01405 (* equal author contribution)  Supplementary Material.

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. doi: 10.1037/xap0000129

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

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. doi:10.1111/psyp.12771

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

Foerster, A., Gray, R., & Canal-Bruland, R. (2015). Size estimates remain stable in the face of differences in performance outcome variability in an aiming task. Consciousness and Cognition, 33, 47-52. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2014.12.004 

Pfister, R., Foerster, A., & Kunde, W. (2014). Pants on fire: The electrophysiological signature of telling a lie. Social Neuroscience, 9(6), 562-572.  doi:10.1080/17470919.2014.934392.

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 (pp. 63-72). Berlin: Neofelis.

Foerster, A., Pfister, R., Schmidt, C., Dignath, D. & Kunde, W. (2013). Honesty saves time (and justifications). Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, 4, 473. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00473