Dr. Anna Förster

anna.foerster(at)uni-wuerzburg.de
Room U4, Appointment by e-mail
Department of Psychology (III)
Röntgenring 11
97070 Würzburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)931 / 3189019
Research Interests
Lie-telling
Cognitive control
Publications
Note. The PDFs below are for your personal scholary use only, and not for reproduction, distribution or commercial use. Also, they have been removed.
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