Moritz Reis M.Sc.

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  Reis, M., Foerster, A., Zettler, I., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2024). Sticky tradition impedes selection of creative ideas. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(1), 268–273. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001490
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  Reis, M., & Kunde, W. (2024). How to overcome biases against creativity: The role of familiarity with and confidence in original solutions. Cognition, 245, 105741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105741
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  Reis, M., Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2024). The action-dynamics of dark creativity. Personality and Individual Differences, 221, 112564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112564
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  Pfister, R., Schwarz, K. A., Holzmann, P., Reis, M., Yogeeswaran, K., & Kunde, W. (2023). Headlines win elections: Mere exposure to fictitious news media alters voting behavior. PLOS ONE, 18(8), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289341
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  Repeatedly encountering a stimulus biases the observer’s affective response and evaluation of the stimuli. Here we provide evidence for a causal link between mere exposure to fictitious news reports and subsequent voting behavior. In four pre-registered online experiments, participants browsed through newspaper webpages and were tacitly exposed to names of fictitious politicians. Exposure predicted voting behavior in a subsequent mock election, with a consistent preference for frequent over infrequent names, except when news items were decidedly negative. Follow-up analyses indicated that mere media presence fuels implicit personality theories regarding a candidate’s vigor in political contexts. News outlets should therefore be mindful to cover political candidates as evenly as possible.
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  Reis, M., Pfister, R., & Foerster, A. (2023). Cognitive load promotes honesty. Psychological Research, 87(3), 826-844. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01686-8
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  In three experiments, we examined the cognitive underpinnings of self-serving dishonesty by manipulating cognitive load under different incentive structures. Participants could increase a financial bonus by misreporting outcomes of private die rolls without any risk of detection. At the same time, they had to remember letter strings of varying length. If honesty is the automatic response tendency and dishonesty is cognitively demanding, lying behavior should be less evident under high cognitive load. This hypothesis was supported by the outcome of two out of three experiments. We further manipulated whether all trials or only one random trial determined payoff to modulate reward adaptation over time (Experiment 2) and whether payoff was framed as a financial gain or loss (Experiment 3). The payoff scheme of one random or all trials did not affect lying behavior and, discordant to earlier research, facing losses instead of gains did not increase lying behavior. Finally, cognitive load and incentive frame interacted significantly, but contrary to our assumption gains increased lying under low cognitive load. While the impact of cognitive load on dishonesty appears to be comparably robust, motivational influences seem to be more elusive than commonly assumed in current theorizing.
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  Reis, M., Pfister, R., Kunde, W., & Foerster, A. (2023). Creative thinking does not promote dishonesty. Royal Society Open Science, 10(12), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230879
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  Reis, M., Pfister, R., & Schwarz, K. A. (2023). The value of control. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 36(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2325
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  Reis, M., & Pfister, R. (2022). Being Observed Does Not Boost Rule Retrieval. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 18(3), 173–178. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0359-8
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  Reis, M., Weller, L., & Muth, F. V. (2022). To follow or not to follow: Influence of valence and consensus on the sense of agency. Consciousness and Cognition, 102, 103347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103347
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