Publications
Publications Jens Förster
*January 2012*
___2012; in press
Books and Book Chapters
Liberman , N. , & Förster , J. (in press). Goal gradients , expectancy and value. In J. Forgas , & A. Kruglanski (Series Eds.) , A. Elliot & H. Aarts (Vol. Eds.) , Frontiers of Social Psychology: Vol. XXX. Goal Directed Behavior (pp. XXX- XXX) . Mahwah , NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bullens , L. , Förster , J. , van Harreveld , F. , & Liberman , N (in press). Decision conflict. In B. Gawronski & F. Strack (Eds.) , Cognitive consistency: A unifying concept in social psychology. Guilford Press.
Peer Reviewed (accepted papers)
Gillebaart , M. , Förster , J. , & Rotteveel , M. (in press). Mere exposure revisited: The influence of growth versus security cues on evaluations of novel and familiar stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Förster , J. & Becker , D. (in press). When curiosity kills no cat but mediates the relation between distant future thoughts and global processing across sensory modalities. European Journal of Social Psychology.
Dannenberg , L. , Förster , J. , & Jostmann , N. B. (in press). “If only…”: When counterfactual thoughts can reduce illusions of personal authorship. Consciousness and Cognition.
Förster , J. (in press). GLOMO sys : The how and why of global and local processing. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Marguc , J. , Van Kleef , G.A. , & Förster , J. (in press). Stepping back while staying engaged: When facing an obstacle increases psychological distance. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Förster , J. , & Denzler , M. (2012). Sense creative! The impact of global and local vision , hearing , touching , tasting , and smelling on creative and analytic thought. Social Psychological andPersonality Science, 3, 108-117.
(Quasi-) solicited papers (all working titles):
Förster , J. , & Friedman , R. (in prep .). Detour to arrive: When avoidance means serve approach goals (working title). In Emotion Review , Special Issue on Approach and Avoidance Motivation; guest editors: Andreas Eder , Andrew Elliot , & Eddie Harmon-Jones.
Förster , J. , & Epstude , KK. (under review). Faraway so close. A cognitive procedures model of love and lust. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Förster , J. , & Liberman , N. (in prep.). Dual process theories of the social mind , Eds. Jeff Sherman , Bertram Gawronski , & Yaacov Trope.
Denzler , M. , & Förster , J. (under review). A social-cognitive model on catharsis. European Review of Social Psychology. Förster , J. , & Jostmann , N. (under review). What is Automatic in Self Regulation and Self Control? In Journal of Psychology , Special Issue on self-regulation and self-control in social contexts , guest editor: Kai Sassenberg.
___2011
Books and Book Chapters
Liberman , N. & Förster , J. (2011). Estimates of spatial distance: A construal level theory perspective. In A. Maass , & T. W. Schubert (Eds) , Spatial dimensions of social cognition (pp. 109-128). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Peer Reviewed
Förster , J. , & Nussbaum , M. (2011). Vorsicht unbewusst! Die Wirkung von negativen und positiven Vorurteilen. AKB-Magazin , 33, 11-12.
Förster , J. , & Denzler , M. (2011). When any Worx looks typical to you: Global relative to local processing increases prototypicality and liking. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 48, 416-419.
Marguc , J. , Förster , J. , & Van Kleef , G. A. (2011). Stepping back to see the big picture: When obstacles elicit global processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101 , 883-901.
Denzler , M. , Häfner , M. , & Förster , J. (2011). He just wants to play: How goals determine the influence of violent computer games on aggression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1644-1654. Epstude , K. , & Förster , J. (2011). Seeing love , or seeing lust: How people interpret ambiguous romantic situations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1017–1020. Woltin , K.-A. , Corneille , O. , Yzerbyt , V.Y. , & Förster , J. (2011). Narrowing down to open up for other people's concerns: Empathic concern can be enhanced by inducing detailed processing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 418-424.Förster J. (2011). Local and global cross-modal influences between vision and hearing , tasting , smelling or touching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 364-389.
Bullens , L. , van Harreveld , F. , & Förster , J. (2011). Keeping ones options open: The detrimental consequences of decision reversibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 800-805. Friedman , R. & Förster , J. (2011). Limitations of the motivational intensity model of attentional tuning. Psychological Bulletin, 137, 513-516 .Denzler , M. , Markel , P. , & Förster , J. (2011). On the dark and bright sides to vengeance. In-Mind magazine, 12.
___2010
Books and Book Chapters Förster, J. (2010). Die Sozialpsychologie des Schubladendenkens: Vorurteile, Stereotype und Diskriminierung. In S. Baer, S. Smykalla, K. Hildebrandt (Eds), Schubladen, Schablonen, Shema F. Stereotype als Herausforderung für Gleichstellungspolitik (pp. 23-35) . München, Germany: Kleine-Verlag. Marguc, J., van Kleef, G., & Förster, J. (2010). Obstacles: Their impact on thinking and beyond thinking (pp. 97-120). New York: Nova Science Publishers. Peer Reviewed Kuschel, S., & Förster, J. & Denzler, M. (2010). Going beyond information given: How approach versus avoidance cues influence access to higher order information. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 4-11. Förster, J. & Dannenberg, L. (2010). GLOMO sys : A Systems Account of Global versus Local Processing. Psychological Inquiry, target article, 21, 175-197. Förster, J. & Dannenberg, L. (2010). GLOMO sys : Specifications of a global model on processing styles. Psychological Inquiry, reply to the commentaries, 21, 257-269. Förster, J., Marguc, J., & Gillebaart, M. (2010). Novelty Categorization Theory. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4/9, 736-755. Förster, J. (2010). How love and sex can influence recognition of faces and words: A processing model account . European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 524-535. Förster, J. Özelsel, A., & Epstude, K. (2010). How love and lust change people’s perception of partners and relationships. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 237-246. Mihov, K., Denzler, M. & Förster, J. (2010). Hemispheric specialization and creative thinking: A meta-analytic review of lateralization of creativity. Brain and Cognition, 72, 442-445. Denzler, M., Förster, J., & Liberman, N. (2010). Aggressive, funny and thirsty: A motivational inference model approach to behavioral rebound. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Friedman, R. & Förster, J. (2010). Implicit affective cues and attentional tuning: An integrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 875-893. Marguc, J., van Kleef G. A., & Förster, J. (2010). Doel, boom, weg: Hoe past alles bij elkaar? De effecten van fysieke obstakels op conceptuele breedte. Jaarboek Sociale Psychologie 2009, pp. 245 - 252. Groningen: ASPO pers. Dannenberg, L., A., Jostmann, N., B., Förster, J. (2010). Zelfregulatie en illusiore gevoelens van agency (Self-regulation and illusions of agency). Jaarboek Sociale Psychologie 2009, pp. 65 - 72. Groningen: ASPO pers. ___ 2009 Books and Book Chapters Förster, J., Liberman, N., & Friedman, R. (2009). What do we prime? On distinguishing between semantic priming, procedural and goal priming. In E. Morsella , J. Bargh, & P. Gollwitzer (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Human Action (pp. 173- 193). New York: Oxford University Press. Förster, J., & Denzler, M. (2009). Die Theorie des regulatorischen Fokus [Regulatory focus theory]. In V. Brandstätter, & J. Otto (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Psychologie: Motivation und Emotion (pp. 189-196). Berlin: Hogrefe. Förster, J., & Denzler, M., (2009). A social-cognitive perspective on automatic self-regulation: The relevance of goals in the information-processing sequence. In J. Forgas, & A. Kruglanski (Series Eds.), F. Strack & J. Förster (Vol. Eds.), Frontiers of social psychology: Vol. 7. Social cognition (pp. 245-268) . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Förster, J. (2009). The unconscious city: How expectancies about creative milieus influence creative performance.In J. Funke, P. Meusburger, & E. Wunder(Eds.), Milieus of Creativity (pp. 219-234). Dordrecht: Springer. Förster, J., & Werth, L. (2009). Regulatory focus: Classic findings and new directions. In Moskowitz, G., & Grant, H. (Eds.), The Psychology of Goals. (pp. 392-420). New York: Guilford. Förster, J., & Liberman, N. (2009). Goal gradients: Challenges to a basic principle of motivation. To appear in J. Forgas, R. Baumeister, & D. Tice, The Psychology of Self Regulation. The Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology. Förster, J. (2009). Wie die Welt über eine schwarze Professorin spricht, die ein schlechtes Gedicht über Obama schrieb. In Beelmann, A., & Jonas, K. (Eds.). Diskriminierung und Toleranz (pp. 13-17). Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Strack, F., & Förster, J. (2009). Social Cognition. In J. Forgas, & A. Kruglanski (Series Editors), Frontiers of Social Psychology, Vol. 7. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Peer Reviewed Förster, J. (2009). Relations between perceptual and conceptual scope: How global versus local processing fits a focus on similarity versus dissimilarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 88-111. Förster, J., Liberman, N., & Shapiro, O. (2009). Preparing for novel versus familiar events: Shifts in global and local processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 383-399. Förster, J. (2009). Cognitive consequences of novelty and familiarity: How mere exposure influences level of construal. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 444-447. Denzler, M., Förster, J., & Liberman, N. (2009). How goal-fulfillment decreases aggression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 45, 90-100. Liberman, N., & Förster, J. (2009). Distancing from experienced self: How global versus local perception affects estimation of psychological distance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 203-216. Förster, J. (2009). Knowing your customer better: The strengths of a self regulatory value approach. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 19, 124-128. Förster (2009). Opening doors for new research questions: On simulatability. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1151-1155. Liberman, N., & Förster, J. (2009). The effect of psychological distance on perceptual level of construal. Cognitive Science, 33, 1330-1341. Förster, J., Epstude, K., & Özelsel, A. (2009). Why love has wings and sex does not: The influence of subconscious reminders of love and sex on creative and analytic thinking. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1479-1491. ___ 2008 Books and Book Chapters Förster, J., & Friedman, R. (2008). Expression entails anticipation: Towards a self-regulatory model of bodily feedback effects. In G. Semin & E. Smith, Embodied Grounding (pp. 289-307). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Friedman, R., & Förster, J. (2008). Activation and measurement of motivational states. In A. Elliott (Ed.), Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation (pp. 235-246). Mawah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Peer Reviewed Förster, J., Liberman, N., & Kuschel, S. (2008). The effect of global versus local processing styles on assimilation versus contrast in social judgment . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 579-599. Schimmel, K., & Förster, J. (2008). How temporal distance changes novices' attitudes towards unconventional arts . Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2, 53-60. Voelpel, S., Eckhoff, R., & Förster, J. (2008). Group size matters: Bystander effects in virtual knowledge sharing . Human Relations, 61, 271-295. Liberman, N., & Förster, J. (2008). Expectancy, value and psychological distance: A new look at goal gradients. Social Cognition, 26, 515-533. ___ 2007 Books and Book Chapters Förster, J. (2007). Approach/avoidance conflict. In K. Vohs & R. Baumeister (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Förster, J. (2007). Kleine Einführung in das Schubladendenken: Über Nutzen und Nachteil des Vorurteils.München: DVA. Förster, J., & Liberman, N. (2007). Inhibition processes in comparisons. In D.A. Stapel, & J. Suls (Eds.), Assimilation and contrast in social judgemnts (pp. 231-261). New York: Guilford. Förster, J., & Liberman, N. (2007). Knowledge activation. A. W. Kruglanski& E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Social Psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford. Peer Reviewed Förster,J., Liberman, N., & Friedman, R. (2007). Seven principles of goal activation: A systematic approach to distinguishing goal priming from priming of non-goal constructs . Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11, 211-233. Friedman, R., Förster, J., & Denzler, M. (2007). Interactive effects of mood and task framing on creative generation . Creativity Research Journal, 19, 141-162. Liberman, N., Förster, J., & Higgins, E.T. (2007). Completed vs. interruped priming: Reduced accessibility from post-fulfillment inhibition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 258-264. Werth, L., & Förster,J. (2007). How regulatory focus influences consumer behavior . European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 33-51. Werth, L., & Förster, J. (2007). Regulatorischer Fokus: Ein Überblick. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 38, 33- 42. Werth, L., & Förster, J. (2007). The effects of regulatory focus on braking speed . Journal of Applied Social Psychology.___ 2006 Books and Book Chapters Förster, J., & Denzler, M. (2006). Kreativität[Creativity]. In J. Funke & P. Frensch (Eds.), Handbuch der Psychologie: Allgemeine Psychologie (pp. 446-454). Berlin, Germany: Hogrefe. Förster,J., & Denzler, M. (2006). Selbst-Regulation [Self-regulation]. In W. Bierhoff & D. Frey (Eds.), Handbuch der Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie (pp. 128-132). Berlin, Germany: Hogrefe. Peer Reviewed Förster, J., Friedman, R., Özelsel, A., & Denzler, M. (2006). Enactment of approach and avoidance behavior influencesthe scope of perceptual and conceptual attention . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 133-146. Liberman, N., & Förster, J. (2006). Inferences from decision difficulty . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 290-302. Werth, L., Markel, P., & Förster, J. (2006). The role of subjective theories for leadership evaluation . European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 15, 102-127. ___ 2005 Books and Book Chapters Liberman, N., & Förster, J. (2005). Motivation and construct accessibility. In Forgas J. P., K. D. Kipling, S. M. Laham (Eds.), Social motivation: Conscious and unconscious processes (Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology) (pp. 228-248). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Peer Reviewed Förster, J., Friedman, R., Butterbach, E.M., & Sassenberg, K. (2005). Automatic effects of deviancy cues on creative cognition . European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 345-360. Förster, J., & Higgins, E.T. (2005). How global vs. local processing fits regulatory focus . Psychological Science, 16, 631-636. Förster, J., Liberman, N., & Higgins, E.T. (2005). Accessibility from active and fulfilled goals . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 220-239. Förster, J., & Liberman, N. (2004). A motivational model of post-suppressional rebound . European Review of SocialPsychology, 15, 1-32. Friedman, R., & Förster, J. (2005). Effects of motivational cues on perceptual asymmetry: Implications for creativity and analytical problem solving . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 263-275. Friedman, R., & Förster, J. (2005). The Influence of Approach and Avoidance Cues on Attentional Flexibility . Motivation and Emotion, 29, 69-81. Friedman, R., McCarthy, D. M., Förster, J., & Denzler, M. (2005). Automatic effects of alcohol cues on sexual attraction . Addiction, 100, 672-681. Strack, F., Förster, J., & Werth, L. (2005). ”Know thyself!” Idiosyncratic self-knowledge may influence recognition . Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 628-638. ___ 2004 Books and Book Chapters Förster, J., & Denzler, M. (2004). How to become happy, successful, and creative. A regulatory focus perspective on emotion, cognition and motivation. In F. Hardt (Ed.), Mapping the world. New Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences. (p. 83-98). Tübingen, Germany: Franke-Verlag. Förster, J., & Liberman, N. (2004). How motivational inferences influence post-suppressional rebound. In S. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research 34 (p. 63-88). New York: Nova Science Publishers. Peer Reviewed Förster, J. (2004). How body feedback influences consumer's evaluation of products. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 14, 415 – 425. Förster, J., Friedman, R., & Liberman, N. (2004). Temporal construal effects on abstract and concrete thinking: Consequences for insight and creative cognition . Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology, 87, 177-189. Förster, J., Higgins, E.T., & Werth, L. (2004). How threat from stereotype disconfirmation triggers self-defense . Social Cognition, 22, 54-74. Seibt, B., & Förster, J. (2004). Stereotype threat and performance: How self-stereotypes influence processing by inducing regulatory foci . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 38 - 56. ___ 2003 Books and Book Chapters Neumann, R., Förster, J. & Strack, F. (2003). Motor compatibility: The bidirectional link between behavior and evaluation. In J. Musch & K.C. Klauer (Eds.). The psychology of evaluation. Affective processes in cognition and emotion. (p. 371-391). Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Peer Reviewed Förster, J. (2003). The influence of approach and avoidance motor actions on food intake . European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 339-350 Förster, J., & Friedman, R. (2003). Kontextabhängige Kreativität [Context dependent creativity]. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 211, 149-160. Förster, J., Higgins, E.T., & Taylor Bianco, A. (2003). Speed/accuracy in task performance: Build-in trade-off or separate strategic concerns? Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 90 (1), 148-164. Friedman, R., Fishbach, A., Förster, J., & Werth, L. (2003). Attentional priming effects on creativity . Creativity Research Journal, 15, 277-286. ___ 2002 Peer Reviewed Friedman, R., & Förster, J. (2002). The influence of approach and avoidance motor actions on creative cognition . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 41-55. Werth, L., & Förster, J. (2002). Implicit person theories influence memory judgments: The circumstances under which metacognitive knowledge is used . European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 353-362. Werth, L., Strack, F., & Förster, J. (2002). Certainty and uncertainty: The two faces of the hindsight bias . Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 87, 323-341. ___ 2001 Peer Reviewed Förster, J., Grant, H., Idson, L.C., & Higgins, E.T. (2001). Success/failure feedback, expectancies, and approach/avoidance motivation: How regulatory focus moderates classic relations . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37 (3), 253-260. Förster, J., & Liberman, N. (2001). The role of attribution of motivation in producing postsuppressional rebound . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 377-390 . Förster, J., & Werth, L. (2001). Zur Wechselwirkung von Medien und Motorik: Der Einfluss induzierten Annäherungs- und Vermeidungsverhaltens auf die Beurteilung der FDP. [On the interaction between the media and motor behavior: The influence of induced approach and avoidance behavior on the evaluation of the FDP]. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 32, 223-233. Friedman, R., & Förster, J. (2001). The effects of promotion and prevention cues on creativity . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 1001-1013. ___ 2000 Peer Reviewed Förster, J., Higgins, E.T., & Strack, F. (2000). When stereotype disconfirmation is personal threat: How prejudice and prevention focus moderates incongruency effects. Social Cognition, 18, 178-197. Förster, J., & Stepper, S. (2000). Compatibility between approach/ avoidance stimulation and valenced information determines residual attention during the process of encoding . European Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 853-871. Friedman, R., & Förster, J. (2000). The effects of approach and avoidance motor actions on the elements of creative insight . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 477-492. Liberman, N., & Förster, J. (2000). Expression after suppression: A motivational explanation of post-suppressional rebound . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 190-203. Mußweiler, T., & Förster, J. (2000). The sex --> aggression link: A perception-behavior dissociation . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 507-520. Werth, L., Förster, J., & Strack, F. (2000). Vorurteile beeinflussen die Enkodierung stereotypinkonsistenter Informationen [Prejudice influences encoding of stereotype inconsistent information]. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 31, 57-69. ___ 1999 Books and Book Chapters Strack, F., Förster, J., & Werth, L. (1999). „Erkenne Dich selbst!“. Einige Überlegungen und Befunde zur Selbsterkenntnis als Methode und Gegenstand psychologischer Forschung ["Know thyself!" Some thoughts and findings concerning self-knowledge as method and subject in psychological research]. In W. Schneider &W. Janke (Eds.), 100 Jahre Würzburger Schule (p. 399-410). Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe. Werth, L., Strack, F., & Förster, J. (1999). Social influence and suggestibility in recognition tasks. In V. DePascalis (Ed.), Social influence and metacognition. ___ 1998 Peer Reviewed Förster, J. (1998). Der Einfluß motorischer Perzeptionen auf Sympathie-Urteile attraktiver und unattraktiver Portraits [The influence of motor perceptions on likeability judgments of attractive and unattractive portraits]. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 45, 167-182. Förster, J., Higgins, E.T., &Idson, L.C. (1998). Approach and avoidance strength during goal attainment: Regulatory focus and the ”goal looms larger” effect . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1115-1131. Förster, J., & Strack, F. (1998). Motor actions in retrieval of valenced information: II. Boundary conditions for motor congruency effects. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 86, 1423-1426. Förster, J. & Strack, F. (1998). Subjective theories about encoding may influence recognition. Social Cognition, 16, 78-92 Strack, F., & Förster, J. (1998). Self-reflection and recognition: The role of metacognitive knowledge in the attribution of recollective experience . Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2, 111-123. ___ 1997 Peer Reviewed Förster,J., & Strack, F. (1997). Motor actions in retrieval of valenced information: A motor congruence effect. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 85, 1419-1427. Mußweiler, T., Förster, J., & Strack, F. (1997). Der Ankereffekt in Abhängigkeit von der Anwendbarkeit ankerkonsistenter Information: Ein Modell selektiver Zugänglichkeit [Anchoring effects and accessibility of anchor-consistent information: A model of selective accessibility]. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 64, 589-615. Strack, F., Förster, J., & Werth, L. (1997). Selbstreflexion und Wiedererkennung [Self-reflection and recognition]. Sprache und Kognition, 16, 151-158. ___ 1996 Peer Reviewed Förster, J., & Strack, F. (1996). Influenceof overt head movements on memory for valenced words: A case of conceptual-motor compatibility . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 421-430. ___ 1995 Books and Book Chapters Förster, J. (1995). Der Einfluß von Ausdrucksverhalten auf das menschliche Gedächtnis: Theoretische Überlegungen und Experimente zu Motor-Kongruenzeffekten. [The influence of expression behavior on human memory: Theoretical accounts and experiments on motor-congruence effects]. Bonn, Germany: Holos. Peer Reviewed Strack, F., & Förster, J. (1995). Reporting recollective experiences: Direct access to memory systems? Psychological Science, 6, 352-358. ___ 1994 Books and Book Chapters Förster, J. (1994). Kann man Zeugen vor Gedächtnisverfälschungen warnen? [Can warnings reduce the misinformation effect?] In S. Sporer und D. Meurer (Eds.), Die Beeinflußbarkeit von Zeugenaussagen. Marburg, Germany: Elwert.