Dr. Robert Wirth
Dr. Robert Wirth
(dis)appointment via email
Organizational
time | occupation |
since 11/2020 | academic council |
09/2017 - 10/2020 | post doc |
04/2014 - 09/2017 | PhD student |
04/2014 - 04/2020 | guest lecturer at the Uni Bayreuth |
since 12/2012 | researcher at the JMU Würzburg |
02/2010 - 08/2012 | student assistant |
04/2009 - 08/2012 | study of psychology |
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network and device administration Röntgenring 11
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SONA admin for the Cognitive Psychology division
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lab and student assistent management
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organization of the experimental practicals of the Psychological Department
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making sure every team member conducts their Windows Updates by vehemently threatening to take away their internet access in case of non-compliance
Research
- ActionControl
- ActionEffects
- Affect
- Agency
- Anticipation
- Applied
- Authority
- Cognition
- Compatibility
- Dishonesty
- EEG
- ErrorProcessing
- FeatureBinding
- Inhibition
- Intention
- Memory
- Modality
- Monitoring
- MotionTracking
- Motivation
- MultiTasking
- Negation
- NonConformity
- ResearchMethods
- Rules
- Time
- VR
- Violation
- actioncontrol
- motiontracking
project title | year | funded by |
Affective evaluation of self- produced action-effect episodes | 2024-2027 | DFG WI 6025/2-1 |
Stimulus-response modality compatibility | 2020 | GSLS Uni Würzburg |
Localizing modality compatibility effects in human information processing | 2020-2021 | HDC Uni Würzburg |
Ergonomic comparison between different types of expectancy in multitasking | 2016 | DFG SPP 1772 |
The interplay between effect monitoring and performance monitoring | 2016 | DFG SPP 1772 |
Validation of finger tracking methods of iPads | 2015 | Unibund Würzburg |
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Pfister, R., Tonn, S., Schaaf, M., & Wirth, R. (2024). mousetRajectory: Mouse tracking analyses for behavioral scientists. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 20(3), 217-228. https://doi.org/10.20982/tqmp.20.3.p217
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Wirth, R., Tonn, S., Schaaf, M., Koch, I., & Kunde, W. (2023). Sequential adaptation to modality incompatibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49(10), 1360–1376. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001149
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Wirth, R., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2023). Following affirmative and negated rules. Cognitive Science, 47(11), e13378. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13378
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Foerster, A., Pfister, R., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2023). Post-execution monitoring in dishonesty. Psychological Research, 87(3), 845-861. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01691-x
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Schroeder, P. A., Mayer, K., Wirth, R., & Svaldi, J. (2023). Playing with temptation: Stopping abilities to chocolate are superior, but also more extensive. Appetite, 181, 106383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2022.106383
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Schaaf, M., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2023). Time expectancies in dual tasking: Evidence for proactive resource sharing?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49(8), 1123-1131. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001141
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Ellinghaus, R., Janczyk, M., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., Fischer, R., & Liepelt, R. (2023). Opposing influences of global and local stimulus-hand proximity on crosstalk interference in dual tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(11), 2461-2478. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231157548
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Muth, F. V., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2022). Temporal Binding in Multi-Step Action-Event Sequences is Driven by Altered Effect Perception. Consciousness and Cognition, 99, 103299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103299
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Schaaf, M., Kunde, W., & Wirth, R. (2022). Monitoring goal-irrelevant effects interferes with concurrent tasks. Acta Psychologica, 224, 103522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103522
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Schaaf, M., Kunde, W., & Wirth, R. (2022). Evidence for initially independent monitoring of responses and response effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(2), 128-138. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000979
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Muth, F. V., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2020). Temporal binding past the Libet clock: testing design factors for an auditory timer. Behavior Research Methods, 53(3), 1322–1341. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01474-5
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Wirth, R., Foerster, A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2020). Design choices: Empirical recommendations for designing two-dimensional finger-tracking experiments. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 2394-2416. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01409-0
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Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2020). Feature~binding contributions to effect monitoring. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(6), 3144-3157. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02036-9
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Wirth, R., Koch, I., & Kunde, W. (2020). Localizing modality compatibility effects: Evidence from dual-task interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(12), 1527-1537. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000873
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Dignath, D., Wirth, R., Kühnhausen, J., Gawrilow, C., Kunde, W., & Kiesel, A. (2020). Motivation drives conflict adaptation. Motivation Science, 6(1), 84-89. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000136
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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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2018.06.005
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Wirth, R., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2019). How not to fall for the white bear: Combined frequency and recency manipulations diminish negation effects on overt behavior. Journal of Cognition, 2(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.62
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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. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000510
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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. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1316706
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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. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0235-2
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Wirth, R., Janczyk, M., & Kunde, W. (2018). Effect monitoring in dual-task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(4), 553-571. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000474
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Wirth, R., Steinhauser, R., Janczyk, M., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2018). Long-term and short-term action-effect links and their impact on effect monitoring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(8), 1186-1198. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000524
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Kunde, W., Wirth, R., & Janczyk, M. (2018). The role of feedback delay in dual-task performance. Psychological Research, 82(1), 157-166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0874-6
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Steinhauser, R., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., Janczyk, M., & Steinhauser, M. (2018). Common mechanisms in error monitoring and action effect monitoring. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 18, 1159–1171. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-018-0628-y
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Schwarz, K. A., Pfister, R., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2018). Dissociating action-effect activation and effect-based response selection. Acta Psychologica, 188, 16-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.05.007
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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. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000480
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Kunde, W., Schmidts, C., Wirth, R., & Herbort, O. (2017). Action effects are coded as transitions from current to future stimulation: Evidence from compatibility effects in tracking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(3), 477-486. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000311
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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. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000129
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Foerster, A., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2017). The dishonest mind set in sequence. Psychological Research, 81(4), 878-899. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-016-0780-3
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Pfister, R., Schwarz, K. A., Wirth, R., & Lindner, I. (2017). My Command, My Act: Observation Inflation in Face-To-Face Interactions. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 13(2), 166-176. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0217-8
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Jusyte, A., Pfister, R., Mayer, S. V., Schwarz, K. A., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., & Schönenberg, M. (2017). Smooth criminal: convicted rule-breakers show reduced cognitive conflict during deliberate rule violations. Psychological Research, 81(5), 939-946. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-016-0798-6
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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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0690-9
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Wirth, R., Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2016). Asymmetric transfer effects between cognitive and affective task disturbances. Cognition and Emotion, 30(3), 399-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1009002
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Pfister, R., Wirth, R., Schwarz, K. A., Foerster, A., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2016). The electrophysiological signature of deliberate rule violations. Psychophysiology, 53(12), 1870-1877. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12771
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Wirth, R., Pfister, R., Brandes, J., & Kunde, W. (2016). Stroking me softly: Body-related effects in effect-based action control. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(6), 1755-1770. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-016-1151-2
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Pfister, R., Wirth, R., Schwarz, K. A., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2016). Burdens of non-conformity: Motor execution reveals cognitive conflict during deliberate rule violations. Cognition, 147, 93-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.009
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Wirth, R., Dignath, D., Pfister, R., Kunde, W., & Eder, A. B. (2016). Attracted by rewards: Disentangling the motivational influence of rewarding and punishing targets and distractors. Motivation Science, 2(3), 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000037
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Wirth, R., Pfister, R., Janczyk, M., & Kunde, W. (2015). Through the portal: Effect anticipation in the central bottleneck. Acta Psychologica, 160, 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.07.007
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Pfister, R., Janczyk, M., Wirth, R., Dignath, D., & Kunde, W. (2014). Thinking with portals: Revisiting kinematic cues to intention. Cognition, 133(2), 464-473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.07.012
title | date | published in |
Radio Interview: Brauchen wir ein Rauch-Verbot? | 05/2024 | hr2 |
Nach Klopapier jetzt Sonnenblumenöl und Mehl: Ein Würzburger Psychologe erklärt, warum wir hamstern | 04/2022 | Main Post |
Gebote funktionieren besser | 12/2021 | Die Tageszeitung (taz) |
Radio interview: Umgang mit Corona-Regeln: Warum brechen Menschen Regeln? | 02/2021 | Radio Gong 96.3 |
Nice and Naughty: There is nothing better than flouting rules. Right? | 07/2020 | Quest popular science magazine |
title | date | invited by |
New insights from modality compatibility research | 04/2023 | Iring Koch, RWTH Aachen |
Using continuous movement data for psychological research: A closer look at designing and analyzing two-dimensional tracking experiments (workshop) | 10/2021 | BRAC Forschungsgruppe at the writing retreat in Freudenberg |
Effects and aftereffects of violating rules | 10/2016 | Andrea Kiesel, Uni Freiburg |
Dual task crosstalk and psychometric Intelligence: A correlation approach | 11/2015 | Lynn Huestegge, Uni Würzburg |
Experimental research on tablets and iPads: Possibilities, limitations, and examples of touchscreen-based experimental research | 06/2015 | Klaus Rothermund, Uni Jena |
Of rules and rebels: Effects and aftereffects of rule violations and rule inversions | 11/2013 | Lynn Huestegge, Uni Würzburg |
title | format | conference | year | in |
Affective evaluation of self-produced action effect episodes | talk | TeaP | 2024 | Regensburg |
Preconditions for modality compatibility effects | talk | TeaP | 2023 | Trier |
Following affirmative and negated rules | poster | ESCOP | 2022 | Lille |
Modality incompatible episodes trigger adaptation processes | talk | TeaP | 2022 | Köln |
Localizing modality compatibility effects: Evidence from dual-task interference | talk/video | TeaP | 2021 | Ulm |
What to do and what not to do: Breaking positively and negatively formulated rules (conference cancelled) | talk | TeaP | 2020 | Jena |
What to do and what not to do: Breaking positively and negatively formulated rules | talk | ESCOP | 2019 | Teneriffe |
Monitoring of proximal and distal effects and errors | poster | DFG SPP 1772 Progress Report | 2019 | Gießen |
Monitoring proximal and distal effects | talk | TeaP | 2019 | London |
Feature binding contributions to effect monitoring | talk | DFG SPP 1772 Kickoff Meeting | 2018 | Aachen |
Effect monitoring in dual-task performance | talk | Psychonomics | 2018 | Amsterdam |
Hand- and mouse-tracking as a window on cognition, affect, and motivation | symposium | DGPs | 2018 | Frankfurt |
Attracted by rewards | talk | DGPs | 2018 | Frankfurt |
The role of effect monitoring for dual-task performance: a summary | talk | DFG SPP 1772 International Symposium | 2018 | Gießen |
How not to fall for the white bear: Flexible control of negation processing | talk | TeaP | 2018 | Marburg |
How not to fall for the white bear: Flexible control of negation processing | poster | Psychonomics | 2017 | Vancouver |
Effect monitoring in dual-task performance | poster | DFG SPP 1772 International Symposium | 2017 | Aachen |
Attracted by rewards (cancelled due to family reasons) | talk | TeaP | 2017 | Dresden |
Effect monitoring in dual-tasking | talk | DFG SPP 1772 Progress Report | 2017 | Gießen |
Benefits of effect monitoring | poster | DFG SPP 1772 Theoretical Challengdes Meeting | 2016 | Aachen |
Breaking the rules | symposium | TeaP | 2016 | Heidelberg |
Looking for trouble, then looking for cops: Rule violations sensitize towards authority-related stimuli | talk | TeaP | 2016 | Heidelberg |
The role of effect monitoring for dual-task performance | talk | DFG SPP 1772 Kickoff Meeting | 2015 | Freiburg |
Effects and aftereffects of rule violations | talk | ESCOP | 2015 | Cyprus |
Breaking the rules: Cognitive mechanisms and behavioral signatures of non-conformity | symposium | TeaP | 2015 | Hildesheim |
Difficulties and aftereffects of rule violations | talk | TeaP | 2015 | Hildesheim |
Of rules and rebels | talk | TeaP | 2014 | Gießen |
Of rules and rebels | talk | ADok | 2013 | Trier |
I screwed up and I meant to: on comitting and processing of intentional errors | talk | TeaP | 2013 | Wien |
I skrewed up and I meant to: on comitting and processing of intentional errors | talk | HexKoP | 2012 | Paderborn |
The processing of intentional errors | poster | TeaP | 2012 | Mannheim |
Teaching
course number | course title | format | language | teaching level |
05023260 | Human Factors 1 | lecture | german & english | M.Sc. Psychology |
05023010 | Experimental Research Methods | practical | german & english | B.Sc. Psychology |
05023022 | Cognitive Psychology 1 | seminar | german | B.Sc. Psychology |
I offer thesis topics (bachelor & master) based on the research interests listed above.
If you are interested in writing your thesis under my supervision, please write me an email with a rough outline of the research question that you aim to investigate.
Theses under my supervision are customarily written in english.
See also our guidelines for bachelor and master theses.