Design choices: Empirical recommendations for designing two-dimensional finger-tracking experiments

R Wirth, A Foerster, W Kunde, R Pfister - Behavior Research Methods, 2020 - Springer
The continuous tracking of mouse or finger movements has become an increasingly popular
research method for investigating cognitive and motivational processes such as decision …

Building blocks of psychology: On remaking the unkept promises of early schools

DG Gozli, W Deng - Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2018 - Springer
The appeal and popularity of “building blocks”, ie, simple and dissociable elements of
behavior and experience, persists in psychological research. We begin our assessment of …

Burdens of non-conformity: Motor execution reveals cognitive conflict during deliberate rule violations

R Pfister, R Wirth, KA Schwarz, M Steinhauser… - Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
Rule compliance is pivotal for the regulation of social behavior. Still, humans deliberately
violate rules at times–be it for personal reasons or for a higher good. Whereas previous …

Who did I lie to that day? Deception impairs memory in daily life

Y Li, Z Liu, X Liu - Psychological Research, 2022 - Springer
Research has demonstrated that deceptive responses can undermine item and source
memories. However, previous studies have often randomly assigned participants to an …

Detecting faking-good response style in personality questionnaires with four choice alternatives

M Monaro, C Mazza, M Colasanti, S Ferracuti… - Psychological …, 2021 - Springer
Deliberate attempts to portray oneself in an unrealistic manner are commonly encountered
in the administration of personality questionnaires. The main aim of the present study was to …

Temporal binding past the Libet clock: Testing design factors for an auditory timer

FV Muth, R Wirth, W Kunde - Behavior Research Methods, 2021 - Springer
Voluntary actions and causally linked sensory stimuli are perceived to be shifted towards
each other in time. This so-called temporal binding is commonly assessed in paradigms …

Through the portal: Effect anticipation in the central bottleneck

R Wirth, R Pfister, M Janczyk, W Kunde - Acta Psychologica, 2015 - Elsevier
Ample evidence suggests that motor actions are generated by mentally recollecting their
sensory consequences, ie, via effect anticipations. There is less evidence, though, on the …

Behaviour versus performance: The veiled commitment of experimental psychology

DG Gozli - Theory & Psychology, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The use and teaching of experimentation in psychology ought to accompany a discussion of
what is within and what is beyond the reach of the method. I address this question by …

How not to fall for the white bear: Combined frequency and recency manipulations diminish negation effects on overt behavior

R Wirth, W Kunde, R Pfister - Journal of cognition, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Processing negated mental representations comes with a price: Not only are negations
harder to resolve than affirmative statements, but they may even invoke ironic effects …

Stroking me softly: Body-related effects in effect-based action control

R Wirth, R Pfister, J Brandes, W Kunde - Attention, Perception, & …, 2016 - Springer
Empirical investigations of ideomotor effect anticipations have mainly focused on action
effects in the environment. By contrast, action effects that apply to the agent's body have …