Dr. Anna Foerster
E-Mail: foerster@uni-trier.de
Raum: JU3.90
Tel.: +49 651 201-1866
Termine nur nach Vereinbarung.
Research Interests
I conduct research on human action control with a focus on lying, cheating and honest mistakes. I am currently investigating the integration of perception and action when actions go awry in my own project in collaboration with Birte Moeller, Maria Nemeth, Christian Frings and Roland Pfister.
Biographical Sketch
since 04/2023 | PostDoc at the Department of General Psychology (Prof. Dr. Roland Pfister) at Trier University |
05/2020-03/2023 | PostDoc at the Department of Cognitive Psychology (Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kunde) at the University of Würzburg |
04/2015-05/2020 | PhD student at the Department of Cognitive Psychology (Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kunde) at the University of Würzburg |
09/2013-11/2013 | Research internship at the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences (Prof. Dr. Cañal-Bruland) at the VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
04/2013-03/2015 | Master of Science in Psychology at the University of Würzburg |
04/2010-03/2013 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Würzburg |
Publications
2023/2024/ in press
| 33 | Reis, M., Foerster, A., Zettler I., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2023). Sticky tradition impedes selection of creative ideas. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(1), 268-273. | OSF |
| 32 | Reis, M., Pfister, R., Kunde, W., & Foerster, A. (2023). Creative thinking does not promote dishonesty. Royal Society Open Science, 10(12), 1-9. | OSF |
| 31 | Frings, C., Foerster, A., Moeller, B., Pastötter, B., & Pfister R. (2023). The relation between learning and stimulus-response binding. Psychological Review. | |
| 30 | Foerster, A., Moeller, B., Frings, C., & Pfister, R. (2023). What is left after an error? Towards a comprehensive account of goal-based binding and retrieval. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(1), 120–139. | OSF |
| 29 | Reis, M., Pfister, R., & Foerster, A. (2023). Cognitive load promotes honesty. Psychological Research, 87(3), 826–844. | OSF |
| 28 | Foerster, A., Pfister, R., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2023). Post-execution monitoring in dishonesty. Psychological Research, 87, 845-861. | OSF |
2021/2022
| 27 | 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), 1-12. | OSF |
| 26 | Foerster, A., Schiltenwolf, M., Dignath, D., & Pfister, R. (2022). Binding error-induced control states. Journal of Cognition, 5(1), 1-18. | OSF |
| 25 | 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), 1-16. | OSF |
| 24 | Foerster, A., Steinhauser, M., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2022). Error cancellation. Royal Society Open Science, 9(3), 1-17. | OSF |
| 23 | 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. | OSF |
| 22 | Pfister, R., & Foerster, A. (2022). How to measure post-error slowing: The case of pre-error speeding. Behavior Research Methods, 54(1), 435–443. | OSF |
| 21 | 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. | OSF |
2019/2020
| 20 | 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. | OSF |
| 19 | Foerster, A., Schmidts, C., Kleinsorge, T., & Kunde, W. (2020). Affective distraction along the flexibility-stability continuum. Cognition and Emotion, 34(3), 438–449. | OSF |
| 18 | Schmidts, C., Foerster, A., & Kunde, W. (2020). Situation selection and cognitive conflict: Explicit knowledge is necessary for conflict avoidance. Cognition and Emotion, 34(6), 1199–1209. | |
| 17 | Kunde, W., Foerster, A., Weigelt, M., & Dignath, D. (2019). On the ball: Short-term consequences of movement fakes. Acta Psychologica, 198, 102872. | OSF |
| 16 | Schmidts, C., Foerster, A., Kleinsorge, T., & Kunde, W. (2020). Proactive control of affective distraction: Experience-based but not expectancy-based. Cognition, 194, 104072. | |
| 15 | 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. | OSF |
| 14 | Pfeuffer, C. U., Pfister, R., Foerster, A., Stecher, 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. | |
| 13 | 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. | OSF |
| 12 | Schmidts, C., Foerster, A., & Kunde, W. (2019). Conflict modification: Predictable production of congruent situations facilitates responding in a stroop task. Psychological Research, 83(8), 1722–1732. |
2017/2018
| 11 | 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. | OSF |
| 10 | 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. | |
| 9 | 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. | OSF |
| 8 | 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. | OSF |
| 7 | Foerster, A.*, Pfister, R.*, Reuss, H., & Kunde, W. (2017). Commentary: Feeling the conflict: The crucial role of conflict experience in adaptation. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1405. (* equal author contribution) | OSF |
| 6 | Foerster, A., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2017). The dishonest mind set in sequence. Psychological Research, 81(4), 878–899. |
2016 and before
| 5 | Pfister, R., Wirth, R., Schwarz, K. A., Foerster, A., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2016). The electrophysiological signature of deliberate rule violation. Psychophysiology, 53, 1870-1877. | |
| 4 | 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. | |
| 3 | Foerster, A., Gray, R., & Cañal-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. | |
| 2 | Pfister, R., Foerster, A., & Kunde, W. (2014). Pants on fire: The electrophysiological signature of telling a lie. Social Neuroscience, 9(6), 562–572. | |
| 1 | Foerster, A., Pfister, R., Schmidts, C., Dignath, D., & Kunde, W. (2013). Honesty saves time (and justifications). Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 473. |