Roland Pfister

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
172 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Roland Pfister is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Pfister has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 84 papers in Social Psychology and 30 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Roland Pfister's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (73 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (64 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (28 papers). Roland Pfister is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (73 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (64 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (28 papers). Roland Pfister collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. Roland Pfister's co-authors include Wilfried Kunde, Markus Janczyk, Katharina A. Schwarz, Andrea Kiesel, David Dignath, Robert Wirth, Lisa Weller, Anna Foerster, Birte Moeller and Bernhard Hommel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Roland Pfister

161 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC)

2020 244 citations Bernhard Hommel, Andrea Kiesel et al. profile →

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Christian Frings Germany

Bahador Bahrami United Kingdom

Jason M. Watson United States

Xiaolin Zhou China

Steven R. Quartz United States

Miguel A. Vadillo Spain

And U. Turken United States

Eric Ruthruff United States

James Danckert Canada

Wilfried Kunde Germany

Christian Frings Germany

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Countries citing papers authored by Roland Pfister

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roland Pfister

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Pfister

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roland Pfister. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roland Pfister based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Roland Pfister. Roland Pfister is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2025). Evidence for transitional coding of human motor representations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 155(2). 549–554.

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Pfister, Roland, et al.. (2024). Action control costs in task selection: Agents avoid actions with incompatible movement and effect features. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 86(4). 1330–1341. 1 indexed citations

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Pfister, Roland, et al.. (2024). mousetRajectory: Mouse tracking analyses for behavioral scientists. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 20(3). 217–229. 2 indexed citations

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Wel, Robrecht P. R. D. van der, et al.. (2024). The one exception: The impact of statistical regularities on explicit sense of agency.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 50(11). 1067–1082.

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Foerster, Anna, et al.. (2024). Guess what? Only correct choices forge immediate stimulus–response bindings in guessing scenarios. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 86(7). 2438–2455.

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Pfister, Roland. (2024). Consistency of Bayes factor estimates in Bayesian analysis of variance.. Psychological Methods.

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Pfister, Roland, et al.. (2023). Creative thinking does not promote dishonesty. Royal Society Open Science. 10(12). 230879–230879. 4 indexed citations

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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2023). Sense of agency in social hierarchies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(10). 2957–2976. 7 indexed citations

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Pfister, Roland, et al.. (2022). Binding of Task-Irrelevant Action Features and Auditory Action Effects. Journal of Cognition. 5(1). 35–35. 4 indexed citations

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Foerster, Anna, Marco Steinhauser, Katharina A. Schwarz, Wilfried Kunde, & Roland Pfister. (2022). Error cancellation. Royal Society Open Science. 9(3). 210397–210397. 9 indexed citations

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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2019). How Stereotypes Affect Pain. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8626–8626. 11 indexed citations

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Pfister, Roland, et al.. (2018). Binding lies: Flexible retrieval of honest and dishonest behavior.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 45(2). 157–173. 5 indexed citations

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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2017). Feeling watched: What determines perceived observation?. Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice. 4(3). 298–309. 5 indexed citations

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Schwarz, Katharina A., et al.. (2017). Do we see it or not? Sensory attenuation in the visual domain.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 147(3). 418–430. 42 indexed citations

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Foerster, Anna, Robert Wirth, Oliver Herbort, Wilfried Kunde, & Roland Pfister. (2017). Lying upside-down: Alibis reverse cognitive burdens of dishonesty.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied. 23(3). 301–319. 16 indexed citations

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Pfister, Roland, et al.. (2016). The power of words: On item-specific stimulus–response associations formed in the absence of action.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 43(2). 328–347. 38 indexed citations

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Hommel, Bernhard, Dominique P. Lippelt, Emine Gürbüz, & Roland Pfister. (2016). Contributions of expected sensory and affective action effects to action selection and performance: Evidence from forced- and free-choice tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 24(3). 821–827. 22 indexed citations

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Eppler, Martin J. & Roland Pfister. (2013). Communicacão Visual : Como utilizar o design thinking para resolver problemas e se comunicar melhor em qualquer situação. Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen). 2 indexed citations

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Pfister, Roland & Wilfried Kunde. (2012). Dissecting the response in response–effect compatibility. Experimental Brain Research. 224(4). 647–655. 68 indexed citations

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Pfister, Roland, et al.. (2012). Your Unconscious Knows Your Name. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e32402–e32402. 21 indexed citations

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