TY  - JOUR
A1  - Reis, Moritz
A1  - Pfister, Roland
T1  - Being Observed Does Not Boost Rule Retrieval
JF  - Advances in Cognitive Psychology
N2  - Previous research, mainly focusing on the situational preconditions of rule violations, indicates that feelings of being watched by other agents promote rule compliance. However, the cognitive underpinnings of this effect and of rule violations in general have only attracted little scientific attention yet. In this study, we investigated whether cues of being observed not only reduce the likelihood of violating rules but also affect the underlying cognitive processes of such behavior when still putting a rule violation into action. Therefore, we applied a motion-tracking paradigm in which participants could violate a simple stimulus-response mapping rule while being faced with pictures of either open or closed eyes. In line with prior research, temporal and spatial measures of the participants' movements indicated that violating this rule induced substantial cognitive conflict. However, conflict during rulebreaking was not moderated by the eye stimuli. This outcome suggests that rule retrieval constitutes an automatic process which is not or is only barely influenced by situational parameters. Moreover, our results imply that the effect of perceived observation on rule conformity is driven by normative influences on decision-making instead of social facilitation of dominant action tendencies.
KW  - rule retrieval
KW  - motion tracking
KW  - cognitive conflict
KW  - observation
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-301089
VL  - 18
IS  - 3
SP  - 173
EP  - 178
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Foerster, Anna
A1  - Pfister, Roland
A1  - Reuss, Heiko
A1  - Kunde, Wilfried
T1  - Commentary: Feeling the Conflict: The Crucial Role of Conflict Experience in Adaptation
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - A commentary on: Feeling the Conflict: The Crucial Role of Conflict Experience in Adaptationby Desender, K., Van Opstal, F., and Van den Bussche, E. (2014). Psychol. Sci. 25, 675–683. doi:10.1177/0956797613511468
Conflict adaptation in masked priming has recently been proposed to rely not on successful conflictresolution but rather on conflict experience (Desender et al., 2014). We re-assessed this proposal ina direct replication and also tested a potential confound due toconflict strength. The data supported this alternative view, but also failed to replicate basic conflict adaptation effects of the original studydespite considerable power.
KW  - conflict adaptation
KW  - conflict experience
KW  - conflict strength
KW  - cognitive conflict
KW  - cognitive control
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-190032
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 8
IS  - 1405
ER  -