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Journal Articles





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Schwarz, K. A., & Weller, L. (2023). Distracted to a fault - Attention, actions, and time perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 301-314.
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Schwarz, K. A., Tonn, S., Büttner, J., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2023). Sense of agency in social hierarchies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(10), 2957-2976.
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Reis, M., Pfister, R., & Schwarz, K. A. (2023). The value of control. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, e2325. doi: 10.1002/bdm.2325
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Pfister, R., Schwarz, K. A., Holzmann, P., Reis, M., Yogeeswaran, K., & Kunde, W. (2023). Headlines win elections: Mere exposure to fictitious news media alters voting behavior. PloS ONE, 18(8), e0289341. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289341
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Schwarz, K. A., Klaffehn, A. L., Hauke-Forman, N., Muth, F. V., & Pfister, R.  (2022). Never run a changing system: Action-effect contingency shapes prospective agency.  Cognition, 229, 105250.
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Foerster, A., Steinhauser, M., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2022). Error cancellation Royal Society Open Science, 9, 210397.
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Tonn, S., Pfister, R., Klaffehn, A. L., Weller, L., & Schwarz, K. A. (2021). Two faces of temporal binding: Action- and effect-binding are not correlated.  Consciousness and Cognition, 96, 103219.
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Pfister, R.*, Tonn, S.*, Weller, L., Kunde, W., & Schwarz, K. A. (2021). To prevent means to know: Explicit but no implicit agency for prevention behavior. Cognition, 206(104489), 1-6. (* = equal author contribution). doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104489
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Weller, L., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2020). Something from nothing: Agency for deliberate nonactions. Cognition, 196(104136), 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104136
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Schwarz, K. A., Weller, L., Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2019). Connecting action control and agency: Does action-effect binding affect temporal binding? Consciousness and Cognition, 76, 102833.
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Schwarz, K. A., Weller, L., Klaffehn, A. L., & Pfister, R. (2019). The effects of action choice on temporal binding, agency ratings, and their correlation. Consciousness and Cognition, 75, 102807. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102807
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Schwarz, K. A., Sprenger, C., Hidalgo, P., Pfister, R., Diekhof, E. K., & Büchel, C. (2019). How stereotypes affect pain. Scientific Reports, 9, 8626. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45044-y
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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. doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2018.06.005
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Weller, L., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2018). My mistake? Enhanced error processing for commanded compared to passively observed actions. Psychophysiology, 55(6), e13057. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13057
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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. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.05.007 (* = equal author contribution)
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Schwarz, K. A., Pfister, R., Kluge, M., Weller, L., & Kunde, W. (2018). Do we see it or not? Sensory attenuation in the visual domain. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(3), 418-430. doi: 10.1037/xge0000353
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Schwarz, K. A., Burger, S., Dignath, D., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2018). Action-effect binding and agency. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 304-309.
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Pfister, R., & Schwarz, K. A. (2018). Should we pre-date the beginning of scientific psychology to 1787? Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 9(2481). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02481
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Klaffehn, A. L., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2018). Similar task-switching performance of real-time strategy and first-person shooter players: Implications for cognitive training. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 2(3), 240-258. doi: 10.1007/s41465-018-0066-3
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Weller, L., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2017). Was it me? – Filling the interval between action and effects increases agency but not sensory attenuation. Biological Psychology, 123, 241-249. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.12.015
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Schwarz, K. A., Pfister, R., & Büchel, C. (2017). The Being a Patient effect: Negative expectations based on group labeling and corresponding treatment affect patient performance. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 23(1), 99-105.
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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. doi: 10.5709/acp-0216-8
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Muth, F. V., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2017). Feeling watched: What determines perceived observation? Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4(3), 298-309. doi: 10.1037/cns0000127
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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. doi: 10.1007/s00426-016-0798-6
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Schwarz, K. A., Pfister, R., & Büchel, C. (2016). Rethinking explicit expectations: Connecting placebos, social cognition, and contextual perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(6), 469-480. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.04.001
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Schwarz, K. A., & Pfister, R. (2016). Scientific psychology in the 18th century: a historical rediscovery. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(3), 399-407. doi: 10.1177/1745691616635601
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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. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.009
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Pfister, R., Wirth, R., Schwarz, K. A., Förster, A., Steinhauser, M. & Kunde, W. (2016). The electrophysiological signature of deliberate rule violations. Psychophysiology, 53, 1870-1877.
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Holtfrerich, S. K. C., Schwarz, K. A., Sprenger, C., Reimers, L., & Diekhof, E. K. (2016). Endogenous testosterone and exogenous oxytocin modulate attentional processing of infant faces. PLoS ONE, 11(11), e0166617. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0166617
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Schwarz, K. A., & Büchel, C. (2015). Cognition and the placebo effect - Dissociating subjective perception and actual perfomance. PLoS ONE, 10(7), e0130492. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130492
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Wieser, M.J., Gerdes, A., Büngel, I., Schwarz, K. A., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2014). Not so harmless anymore: How context impacts the perception and electrocortical processing of neutral faces. NeuroImage, 93, 74-82.
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Schwarz, K. A., Wieser, M.J., Gerdes A. B. M., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2013). Why are you looking like that? How the context influences evaluation and processing of human faces. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 438-445.
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Pfister, R., Schwarz, K. A., Carson, R., & Janczyk, M. (2013). Easy methods for extracting individual regression slopes: Comparing SPSS, R, and Excel. Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 9(2), 72-78.
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Pfister, R., Schwarz, K. A., & Janczyk, M. (2012). Ubi irritatio, ibi affluxus: A 19th century perspective on haemodynamic brain activity. Cortex, 48(8), 1061-1063. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.05.006

Book Chapter





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Pfister, R., Foerster, A., Schwarz, K. A., & Wirth, R. (2014). Lässt sich ein guter Hochstapler als solcher entlarven? Wenn ja: Wie? [Can a good conman be exposed? If so: how?] In: W. Schwanebeck (Ed.), Über Hochstapelei: Perspektiven auf eine kulturelle Praxis (pp. 63-72). Berlin: Neofelis.

Talks & Presentations





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Schwarz, K. A., & Weller, L. (2022). What is temporal binding? Talk at the Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), September 2022, Hildesheim, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., Tonn, S., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2022). Who’s in control? Sense of agency in hierarchies Poster presentation at the 22nd Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), August 2022, Lille, France.
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Schwarz, K. A. (2021). How individual and situational aspects shape sense of agency. Talk at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, November 2021, Virtual Conference.
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Schwarz, K. A. (2021). Evaluating action decisions: How individual and situational aspects shape the sense of agency. Invited talk at the Workshop „Enabling cognitive behavior“ (Center for Interdisciplinary Research), September 2021, Bielefeld, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A. (2020). Zwischen Windeln und Wissenschaft. [Between diapers and data.] Invited keynote lecture at the 9th Doktorandenworkshop Allgemeine Psychologie (A-Dok), July 2020, Regensburg, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A. (2020). Situational aspects of the sense of agency. Invited talk at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), June 2020, Bielefeld, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A. (2019). Handeln in hierarchischen Strukturen: Agency und Verantwortungsgefühl. [Acting in hierarchical structures: Agency and responsibility.] Talk at the 52th Herbstreffen der Experimentellen Kognitiven Psychologie (HExKoP), October 2019, Hildesheim, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2019). Acting in hierarchical structures: Agency, responsibility, and regret. Talk at the 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), September 2019, Tenerife, Spain.
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Schwarz, K. A., Weller, L., Klaffehn, A. L., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2019). Implicit and explicit measures capture distinct facets of human agency. Poster presented at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), April 2019, London, UK.
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Schwarz, K. A., Burger, S., Dignath, D., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2018). Handlungs-Effekt Assoziationen und die Entstehung von Agency. [Action-effect associations and the formation of agency.] Poster presented at the Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), September 2018, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., Kluge, M., Weller, L., Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2018). Do we see it or not? Sensory attenuation for learned action effects in the visual domain. Talk at the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, May 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Schwarz, K. A., Kluge, M., Weller, L., Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2017). Do we see it or not? Sensory attenuation for learned action effects in the visual domain. Poster presented at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2017, Dresden, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., & Pfister, R. (2016). Empirische Psychologie anno 1783: Ferdinand Überwasser & Franz von Fürstenberg. [Empirical psychology anno 1783: Ferdinand Ueberwasser & Franz von Fürstenberg.] Poster presented at the Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), September 2016, Leipzig, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A. (2016). Expectations. Invited talk at the Franconian International School, September 2016, Erlangen, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., Pfister, R., Weller, L., & Kunde, W. (2016). Common principles guiding the perception of self-produced action effects. Poster presented at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2016, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., Pfister, R., May, A., & Büchel, C. (2015). The Being a Patient effect: Group labelling affects patient performance in clinical research. Talk at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), March 2015, Hildesheim, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., Diekhof, E. K., & Büchel, C. (2013). Gender, stereotypes and the processing of pain. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), November 2013, San Diego, CA, USA.
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Schwarz, K. A., & Büchel, C. (2013). Men in pain: Gender, stereotypes, and the processing of pain. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), June 2013, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Schwarz, K. A., & Büchel, C. (2013). Men in pain: Gender, stereotypes, and the processing of pain. Talk at the Tagung Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG), June 2013, Würzburg, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., & Büchel, C. (2013). The Suggestibility of pain perception beyond the medical context. Talk and Poster presented at Progress in our understanding of the psychobiological and neurobiological mechanisms of the placebo and nocebo responses, January 2013, Tübingen, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., Pfister, R., & Büchel, C. (2012). Warum Frauen schlecht einparken: Die Effekte der Stereotyp-Bedrohung. [Why women cannot park: The effects of stereotype threat.] Talk at the 1st Doktorandenworkshop Allgemeine Psychologie (A-Dok), June 2012, Würzburg, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A. (2010). Context-dependent processing of neutral facial expressions. Invited talk at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), September 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA (Prof. Dr. Nancy Kanwisher’s research group).
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Schwarz, K. A., Gerdes A. B. M., Wieser, M. J., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2010). Context-dependent processing of neutral facial expressions. Poster presented at the International Summer School on Multimodal Approaches in Neuroscience, July 2010, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany.
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Schwarz, K. A., Gerdes A. B. M., Wieser, M. J., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2010). Kontext-abhängige Verarbeitung neutraler Gesichtsausdrücke und der Einfluss sozialer Ängstlichkeit – eine fMRT-Studie. [Context-dependent processing of neutral facial expressions and the influence of social anxiety - a fMRI study.] Poster presented at the Tagung Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG), June 2010, Greifswald, Germany.
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