Research interests

Action effects & ideomotor theory

Endogenous and exogenous processes in action control

Neurophysiological basis of action control

Cube and button based testing

Publicatons

Janczyk, M., Pfister, R., Crognale, M., & Kunde, W. (in press). Effective rotations: Action-effects determine the interplay of mental and manual rotations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. pdf.

Kunde, W., Pfister, R. & Janczyk, M. (in press). The locus of tool-transformation costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Pfister, R., Heinemann, A., Kiesel, A., Thomaschke, R., Janczyk, M. (in press). Do endogenous and exogenous action control compete for perception? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. pdf. 

Pfister, R., & Janczyk, M. (in press). Harleß' Apparatus of Will: 150 years later. Psychological Research. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-011-0362-3.

Kunde, W., Pfister, R. & Janczyk, M. (in press). The locus of tool-transformation costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Pfister, R. (in press). Gender effects in gaming research: A case for regression residuals? Cyberpsychology, Behavior & Social Networking. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2010.0547. pdf.

Pfister, R., Pohl, C., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2012). Your unconscious knows your name. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e32402. pdf.

Janczyk, M., Pfister, R. & Kunde, W. (2012). On the persistence of tool-based compatibility effects. Journal of Psychology, 220, 16-22. pdf.

Pfister, R. (2011). Wardrobe malfunctions and the measurement of internet behaviour. Psychology, 2(3), 265-267. DOI: 10.4236/psych. 2011.23042. pdf.

Pfister, R., Kiesel, A., & Hoffmann, J. (2011). Learning at any rate: Action-effect learning for stimulus-based actions. Psychological Research, 75(1), 61-65. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-010-0288-1. pdf.

Pfister, R., Janczyk, M., & Kunde, W. (2010). Los, beweg dich! - Aber wie? Ideen zur Steuerung menschlicher Handlungen. In-Mind Magazine, 4. Available online.

Pfister, R., Kiesel, A., & Melcher. T. (2010). Adaptive Control of Ideomotor Effect Anticipations. Acta Psychologica, 135(3), 316-322. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.08.006. pdf.

Hoffmann, J., Lenhard, A., Sebald, A., & Pfister, R. (2009). Movements or targets: What makes an action in action effect learning? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(12), 2433-2449. DOI: 10.1080/17470210902922079. pdf.