PD Dr. Kerstin Fröber

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  Michalik, J., Bukowski, M., Majchrowicz, B., & Fröber, K. (2026). The mental price of losing control: Rewards and willingness to invest mental effort under conditions of uncontrollability. Motivation and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11031-026-10243-4
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  Janczyk, M., Danwitz, L., Fröber, K., & von Helversen, B. (2025). Task switching with probabilistic reward schemes. Acta Psychologica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105029
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  Fröber, K., & Pastötter, B. (2025). The influence of free choice on recognition memory in the face of distraction. Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2551797
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  Becker, D., Bijleveld, E., Braem, S., Fröber, K., Götz, F. J., Kleiman, T., Körner, A., Pfister, R., Reiter, A. M., Saunders, B., Schneider, I. K., Soutschek, A., van Steenbergen, H., & Dignath, D. (2024). An integrative framework of conflict and control. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.07.002
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  Mendl, J., Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2024). Flexibility by association? No evidence for an influence of cue–transition associations on voluntary task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001186
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  Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2023). You Can(’t) Always Get What You Want: When Goal Persistence Requires Flexibility. Motivation Science. https://doi.org/10.1037/MOT0000297
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  Fröber, K., & Lerche, V. (2023). Performance-contingent reward increases the use of congruent distracting information. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/S13414-023-02682-9
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  Weber, T., Fröber, K., & Schuch, S. (2023). Reward-based modulation of task-switching performance: a diffusion model analysis. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/S13414-023-02711-7
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  Fröber, K., Jurczyk, V., Mendl, J., & Dreisbach, G. (2021). Investigating anticipatory processes during sequentially changing reward prospect: An ERP study. Brain and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BANDC.2021.105815
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  Fröber, K., Jurczyk, V., & Dreisbach, G. (2021). Keep Flexible - Keep Switching? Boundary Conditions of the Influence of Forced Task Switching on Voluntary Task Switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/XLM0001104
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  Jurczyk, V., Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2021). Bottom-up influences on voluntary task switching in different reward contexts? Acta Psychologica. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ACTPSY.2021.103312
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  Fröber, K., & Thomaschke, R. (2021). In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(3), 528–544. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000295
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  Jurczyk, V., Mittelstädt, V., & Fröber, K. (2020). Does temporal predictability of tasks influence task choice? Psychological Research, 85(3), 1066–1083. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01297-1
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  Chiu, Y.-C., Fröber, K., & Egner, T. (2020). Item-specific priming of voluntary task switches. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(4), 434–441. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000725
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  Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2020). How Sequentially Changing Reward Prospect Modulates Meta-control: Increasing Reward Prospect Promotes Cognitive Flexibility. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00825-1
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  Fröber, K., Pittino, F., & Dreisbach, G. (2020). How sequential changes in reward expectation modulate cognitive control: Pupillometry as a tool to monitor dynamic changes in reward expectation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 148, 35-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.12.010
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  Fröber, K., Pfister, R., & Dreisbach, G. (2019). Increasing reward prospect promotes cognitive flexibility: Direct evidence from voluntary task switching with double registration. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(8), 1926-1944. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818819449
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  Fischer, R., Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2018). Shielding and relaxation in multitasking: Prospect of reward counteracts relaxation of task shielding in multitasking. Acta Psychologica, 191, 112-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.09.002
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  Dreisbach, G., Fröber, K., Berger, A., & Fischer, R. (2018). Unexpected conflict signals loom larger in a positive context: Evidence from context specific control adjustments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000662
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  Jurczyk, V., Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2018). Increasing reward prospect motivates switching to the more difficult task. Motivation Science. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000119
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  Mendl, J., Fröber, K., & Dolk, T. (2018). Are You Keeping an Eye on Me? The Influence of Competition and Cooperation on Joint Simon Task Performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01361
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  Dreisbach, G., & Fröber, K. (2018). On How to Be Flexible (or Not): Modulation of the Stability-Flexibility Balance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721418800030
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  Czaczkes, T. J., Koch, A., Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2018). Voluntary switching in an invertebrate: The effect of cue and reward change. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 44(3), 247-257. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000171
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  Fröber, K., Raith, L., & Dreisbach, G. (2017). The dynamic balance between cognitive flexibility and stability: the influence of local changes in reward expectation and global task context on voluntary switch rate. Psychological Research, 82(1), 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0922-2
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  Fröber, K., Stürmer, B., Frömer, R., & Dreisbach, G. (2017). The role of affective evaluation in conflict adaptation: An LRP study. Brain and Cognition, 116, 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.05.003
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  Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2017). Keep flexible - Keep switching! The influence of forced task switching on voluntary task switching. Cognition, 162, 48-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.01.024
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  Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2016). How sequential changes in reward magnitude modulate cognitive flexibility: Evidence from voluntary task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(2), 285-295. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000166
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  Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2016). How performance (non-)contingent reward modulates cognitive control. Acta Psychologica, 168, 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.04.008
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  Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2014). The differential influences of positive affect, random reward, and performance-contingent reward on cognitive control. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 14(2), 530-547. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-014-0259-x
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  Fröber, K. (2013). How positive affect modulates cognitive control: New insights into the specificity of positive affect effects. https://doi.org/10.5283/EPUB.28441
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  Fröber, K., & Dreisbach, G. (2012). How Positive Affect Modulates Proactive Control: Reduced Usage of Informative Cues Under Positive Affect with Low Arousal. Frontiers in Psychology, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00265
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