@article{FoersterMoellerFringsetal.2023,
  author    = {Foerster, Anna and Moeller, Birte and Frings, Christian and Pfister, Roland},
  title     = {What is left after an error? Towards a comprehensive account of goal-based binding and retrieval},
  series = {Attention, Perception, \& Psychophysics},
  volume    = {85},
  journal   = {Attention, Perception, \& Psychophysics},
  number    = {1},
  doi       = {10.3758/s13414-022-02609-w},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-324851},
  pages     = {120-139},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {The cognitive system readily detects and corrects erroneous actions by establishing episodic bindings between representations of the acted upon stimuli and the intended correct response. If these stimuli are encountered again, they trigger the retrieval of the correct response. Thus, binding and retrieval efficiently pave the way for future success. The current study set out to define the role of the erroneous response itself and explicit feedback for the error during these processes of goal-based binding and retrieval. Two experiments showed robust and similar binding and retrieval effects with and without feedback and pointed towards sustained activation of the unbound, erroneous response. The third experiment confirmed that the erroneous response is more readily available than a neutral alternative. Together, the results demonstrate that episodic binding biases future actions toward success, guided primarily through internal feedback processes, while the erroneous response still leaves detectable traces in human action control.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ReisPfisterFoerster2023,
  author    = {Reis, Moritz and Pfister, Roland and Foerster, Anna},
  title     = {Cognitive load promotes honesty},
  series = {Psychological Research},
  volume    = {87},
  journal   = {Psychological Research},
  number    = {3},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00426-022-01686-8},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-324913},
  pages     = {826-844},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FoersterPfisterWirthetal.2023,
  author    = {Foerster, Anna and Pfister, Roland and Wirth, Robert and Kunde, Wilfried},
  title     = {Post-execution monitoring in dishonesty},
  series = {Psychological Research},
  volume    = {87},
  journal   = {Psychological Research},
  number    = {3},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00426-022-01691-x},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-324862},
  pages     = {845-861},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {When telling a lie, humans might engage in stronger monitoring of their behavior than when telling the truth. Initial evidence has indeed pointed towards a stronger recruitment of capacity-limited monitoring processes in dishonest than honest responding, conceivably resulting from the necessity to overcome automatic tendencies to respond honestly. Previous results suggested monitoring to be confined to response execution, however, whereas the current study goes beyond these findings by specifically probing for post-execution monitoring. Participants responded (dis)honestly to simple yes/no questions in a first task and switched to an unrelated second task after a response-stimulus interval of 0 ms or 1000 ms. Dishonest responses did not only prolong response times in Task 1, but also in Task 2 with a short response-stimulus interval. These findings support the assumption that increased monitoring for dishonest responses extends beyond mere response execution, a mechanism that is possibly tuned to assess the successful completion of a dishonest act.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ReisPfisterKundeetal.2023,
  author    = {Reis, Moritz and Pfister, Roland and Kunde, Wilfried and Foerster, Anna},
  title     = {Creative thinking does not promote dishonesty},
  series = {Royal Society Open Science},
  volume    = {10},
  journal   = {Royal Society Open Science},
  number    = {12},
  issn      = {2054-5703},
  doi       = {10.1098/rsos.230879},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-349859},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {We assessed the relation of creativity and unethical behaviour by manipulating the thinking style of participants (N = 450 adults) and measuring the impact of this manipulation on the prevalence of dishonest behaviour. Participants performed one of three inducer tasks: the alternative uses task to promote divergent thinking, the remote associates task to promote convergent thinking, or a simple classification task for rule-based thinking. Before and after this manipulation, participants conducted the mind game as a straightforward measure of dishonesty. Dishonest behaviour increased from before to after the intervention, but we found no credible evidence that this increase differed between induced mindsets. Exploratory analyses did not support any relation of trait creativity and dishonesty either. We conclude that the influence of creative thinking on unethical behaviour seems to be more ambiguous than assumed in earlier research or might be restricted to specific populations or contexts.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PfisterSchwarzHolzmannetal.2023,
  author    = {Pfister, Roland and Schwarz, Katharina A. and Holzmann, Patricia and Reis, Moritz and Yogeeswaran, Kumar and Kunde, Wilfried},
  title     = {Headlines win elections: mere exposure to fictitious news media alters voting behavior},
  series = {PloS One},
  volume    = {18},
  journal   = {PloS One},
  number    = {8},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0289341},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-349845},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}