Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel

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andrea.kiesel@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de
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Department of Psychology
Engelbergerstr 41, Room 3009
79106 Freiburg
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Curriculum Vitae

2025 – present

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center for Climate Change Education and Education for Sustainable Development (ReCCE) at PH Freiburg

2025 – present

Member of the External Research Advisory Board of the Rheinland-Pfalz Technical University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

2023-2026

Member of the Commission for Ensuring Integrity in Research, University of Freiburg

2020-2028

Elected as DFG Review Board Member for Review Board 110 Psychology, Subject Area 110-01 General, Cognitive, and Mathematical Psychology

2018 – present

Member of FIT

2016-2021

Dean of Studies for Psychology, Faculty Executive Board Member, and Faculty Council Member.

Since 03/ 2015

Professor in Psychology, University of Freiburg

10/2010 – 02/2015

associate professor, University of Würzburg

10/2008 – 09/2009

Professor (stand-in for Joachim Hoffmann) for Cognitive Psychology, University of Würzburg

04/2008 – 09/2010

senior lecturer, University of Würzburg

10/2006 – 03/2008

lecturer, University of Würzburg

08/2005 – 01/2006

Research residence at the lab of Prof. Jeff Miller, Dunedin, New Zealand

02/2003-03/2003

Research residence at the lab of Prof. Danny Gopher, Technion, Haifa, Israel

11/2000 – 09/2006

Researching position at the lab of Prof. Joachim Hoffmann, University of Würzburg, Germany

Multiple cognitive task requirements (SPP 1772)
Statistical Modeling in Psychology
Cognitive-Affective Maps (CAMs)
Action control – Binding and Retrieval
Novel methods to predict acceptance for livMatS (Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems)
Time in the context of action

2024 “ZUKAMAS – Future-Oriented Climate Change Management for Urban Green Spaces” As part of the Innovation Campus Sustainability; joint proposal with Peter Woias and Thomas Seifert (Own contribution: €23,800)
2023 DFG Project: “Process-Based Interference between Cognitive Control and Continuous Sensorimotor Tasks: An Event-Correlated Approach in the Domain of Postural Control”; joint proposal with Leif Johannsen, Iring Koch, and Hermann Müller (Own contribution: €28,467)
2022 Excellence cluster „Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems“ in the German excellence initiative (member of steering committee; own project part: 2 x 65% PhD position for 3 years)
2022 Principal Investigator in the DFG Research Training Group Statistical Modelling in Psychology (continuation project) Speaker: Thorsten Meiser (University of Mannheim); consortium with the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, Landau, and Mannheim.
2019 STAV-Psych Student Selection Procedure. Cooperative project within the “Successful Studying in Baden-Württemberg” Fund (FESt-BW). Joint project led by Prof. Birgit Spinath (University of Heidelberg).
2019 ICE – Integrated Curriculum Development in Entrepreneurship. Funded through the second tranche of the “Successful Studying in Baden-Württemberg” Fund (FESt-BW-2). Joint proposal by the University of Freiburg and Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences.
2019 DFG Research Unit FOR 2790: Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (Co-applicant)
2018 Cluster of Excellence: Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems funded under the German Excellence Strategy; Founding Executive Board Member.
- Own share:2018–2022: 1.5 positions at 65% 2022–2025: 1 position at 65%
2018 DFG Project: Self-organized vs. externally controlled task scheduling when facing multiple cognitive task requirements. Funded within the DFG Priority Programme
- Funding: 1 position (65%) for 3 years; total funding: €236,680
2017 Principal Investigator in the DFG Research Training Group Statistical Modelling in Psychology. Speaker: Edgar Erdfehler (University of Mannheim); consortium with the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, Landau, and Mannheim
2017 FRIAS Project Group: Sustainable Self-Optimization as a Human Core Competence in the 21st Century. In collaboration with: Prof. Dr. Matthias Nückles (Educational Science, speaker), Prof. Dr. Albert Gollhofer (Sports Science), Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs (Biological and Differential Psychology), PD Dr. Sebastian Schwenzfeuer (Philosophy), Prof. Dr. Markus Tauschek (Cultural Anthropology)
2015 DFG Coordination Fund within the Priority Programme Human Performance under Multiple Cognitive Task Requirements: From Basic Mechanisms to Optimized Task Scheduling
Funding: 1 full-time position (100%) for 3 years; total budget: €748,300
2015 DFG Project: Self-organized vs. externally controlled task scheduling when facing multiple cognitive task requirements within the Priority Programme
- Funding: 1 position (65%) for 3 years; total budget: €207,244
2014 Establishment of DFG Priority Programme Human Performance under Multiple Cognitive Task Requirements: From Basic Mechanisms to Optimized Task Scheduling (SPP 1772). Jointly with Iring Koch and Hermann Müller
2014 DFG Project: Time Perception in Action Contexts
- Funding: 1 full-time position (100%) for 2 years; total budget: €191,200
2014 ANR–DFG Project: Systematic Analysis of Stimulus–Response (S-R) Associations
- Funding: 1 position (65%) for 3 years; total budget: €178,850
2011 DFG Project: Impact of Subliminal Stimuli on Cognitive Control Processes
- Applicant: Wilfried Kunde; involved researcher: Andrea Kiesel
- Funding: 1 position (65%) for 3 years
2009 DFG Project: Time Perception in Action Contexts
- Funding: 1 position (65%) for 3 years
2007 DFG Project: Unconscious Cognition: Effects of Subliminal Stimuli on Human Action
- Applicants: Andrea Kiesel and Wilfried Kunde
- Funding: 1 doctoral position each for 2 years plus consumables

Publications

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Monno, I., Dahlinger, P., Miller, J., Neumann, G., & Kiesel, A. (2025). Identifying individual cost-balancing strategies when self-organizing task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(8), 1063–1084. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001326
Hartmann, R., Koger, A., Straub, E., Johannsen, L., Koch, I., Stephan, D. N., Müller, H., & Kiesel, A. (2025). forceplate: an R package for processing raw force-plate time-series data. Behavior Research Methods, 57(7), 187. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02657-8
Fenn, J., Gouret, F., Gorki, M., Reuter, L., Gros, W. J., Hüttner, P., & Kiesel, A. (2025). Cognitive-affective maps extended logic: proposing tools to collect and analyze attitudes and belief systems. Behavior Research Methods, 57(6), 174. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02699-y
Höfele, P., Estadieu, L., Müller, O., Hühn, L., & Kiesel, A. (2025). Societal implications of bioinspired technologies: introduction to the special issue. Technology in Society, 81, 102823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102823
Blomenkamp, M., Kiesel, A., Baumeister, H., Lehr, D., Unterrainer, J., Sander, L., & Spanhel, K. (2025). Assessing the cultural fit of a digital sleep intervention for refugees in Germany : qualitative study. JMIR Formative Research, 9, e65412. https://doi.org/10.2196/65412
Gorki, M., Speck, O., Möller, M., Fenn, J., Estadieu, L., Menges, A., Schiller, M., Speck, T., & Kiesel, A. (2025). Challenging the biomimetic promise-do laypersons perceive biomimetic buildings as more sustainable and more acceptable? Biomimetics, 10(2), 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10020086
Zhou, A., Thomaschke, R., Wessels, A., Glunz, S., Speck, T., & Kiesel, A. (2024). (Not) in my city: an explorative study on social acceptance of photovoltaic installations on buildings. Technology in Society, 79, 102725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102725
Gros, W. J., Reuter, L., Sprich, J., Schuldzinski, D., Fenn, J., & Kiesel, A. (2024). Cognitive-affective maps (CAMs) as measurement tool – elaboration of quantitative and qualitative test-retest reliability. Technology in Society, 78, 102651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102651
Schiltenwolf, M., Kiesel, A., Frings, C., & Dignath, D. (2024). Memory for abstract control states does not decay with increasing retrieval delays. Psychological Research, 88(2), 547–561. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01870-4
Hershman, R., Dadon, G., Kiesel, A., & Henik, A. (2024). Resting Stroop task: evidence of task conflict in trials with no required response. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(1), 353–360. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02354-7
Frings, C., Beste, C., Benini, E., Möller, M., Dignath, D., Giesen, C., Hommel, B., Kiesel, A., Koch, I., Kunde, W., Mayr, S., Mocke, V., Moeller, B., Münchau, A., Parmar, J., Pastötter, B., Pfister, R., Philipp, A. M., Qiu, R., … Schmalbrock, P. (2024). Consensus definitions of perception-action-integration in action control. Communications Psychology, 2, 7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00050-9
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Spitzer, M. W. H., Janz, J., Nie, M., & Kiesel, A. (2024). On the interplay of curiosity, confidence, and importance in knowing information. Psychological Research, 88(1), 101–115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01841-9
Kiesel, A., Fournier, L. R., Giesen, C., Mayr, S., & Frings, C. (2023). Core mechanisms in action control : binding and retrieval. Journal of Cognition, 6(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.253
Bindschädel, J., Weimann, P., & Kiesel, A. (2023). Using eHMI, acoustic signal, and pitch motion to communicate the intention of automated vehicles to pedestrians: a Wizard of Oz study. Transportation Research, 97, 59–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.06.017
Schiltenwolf, M., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2023). No temporal decay of cognitive control in the congruency sequence effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49(8), 1247–1263. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001159
Inga, J., Ruess, M., Robens, J. H., Nelius, T., Rothfuß, S., Kille, S., Dahlinger, P., Lindenmann, A., Thomaschke, R., Matthiesen, S., Hohmann, S., & Kiesel, A. (2023). Human-machine symbiosis: a multivariate perspective for physically coupled human-machine systems. International Journal of Human – Computer Studies, 170, 102926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2022.102926
Rothfuß, S., Wörner, M., Inga, J., Kiesel, A., & Hohmann, S. (2023). Human–machine cooperative decision making outperforms individualism and autonomy. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 53(4), 761–770. https://doi.org/10.1109/thms.2023.3274916
Zhang, J., Bürkner, P.-C., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2023). How emotional stimuli modulate cognitive control: a meta-analytic review of studies with conflict tasks. Psychological Bulletin, 149(1-2), 25–66. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000389
Johannsen, L., Stephan, D. N., Straub, E., Döhring, F., Kiesel, A., Koch, I., & Müller, H. (2023). Assessing the influence of cognitive response conflict on balance control: an event-related approach using response-aligned force-plate time series data. Psychological Research, 87(7), 2297–2315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01809-9
Fenn, J., Helm, J. F., Höfele, P., Kulbe, L., Ernst, A., & Kiesel, A. (2023). Identifying key-psychological factors influencing the acceptance of yet emerging technologies – a multi-method-approach to inform climate policy. PLOS Climate, 2(6), e0000207. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000207
Pfeuffer, C. U., Kiesel, A., & Huestegge, L. (2023). Similar proactive effect monitoring in free and forced choice action modes. Psychological Research, 87(1), 226–241. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01644-4
Dames, H., Kiesel, A., & Pfeuffer, C. U. (2022). Evidence for a selective influence of short-term experiences on the retrieval of item-specific long-term bindings. Journal of Cognition, 5(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.223
Schmalbrock, P., Kiesel, A., & Frings, C. (2022). What belongs together retrieves together – the role of perceptual grouping in stimulus-response binding and retrieval. Journal of Cognition, 5(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.217
Zhang, J., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2022). When negative affect drives attentional control: the role of motivational orientation. Motivation and Emotion, 46(4), 546–556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09951-4
Bindschädel, J., Krems, I., & Kiesel, A. (2022b). Two-step communication for the interaction between automated vehicles and pedestrians. Transportation Research, 90, 136–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2022.08.016
Dignath, D., Eder, A. B., Herbert, C., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Self-related primes reduce congruency effects in the Stroop task. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 151(11), 2879–2892. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001210
Spitzer, M. W. H., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2022). Performance errors influence voluntary task choices. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 48(6), 665–688. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000991
Mittelstädt, V., Miller, J., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Perceptual processing demands influence voluntary task choice. Cognition, 229, 105232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105232
Johannsen, L., Kiesel, A., Koch, I., & Müller, H. (2022). Interference between cognition and motor control in human multitasking: an editorial. Acta Psychologica, 230, 103692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103692
Broeker, L., Brüning, J., Fandakova, Y., Khosravani, N., Kiesel, A., Kubik, V., Kübler, S., Manzey, D., Monno, I., Raab, M., & Schubert, T. (2022). Individual differences fill the uncharted intersections between cognitive structure, flexibility, and plasticity in multitasking. Psychological Review, 129(6), 1486–1494. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000376
Straub, E., Dames, H., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2022). Does body posture reduce the Stroop effect? Evidence from two conceptual replications and a meta-analysis. Acta Psychologica, 224, 103497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103497
Bindschädel, J., Krems, I., & Kiesel, A. (2022a). Active vehicle pitch motion for communication in automated driving. Transportation Research, 87, 279–294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2022.04.011
Strittmatter, Y., Spitzer, M. W. H., & Kiesel, A. (2022). A random-object-kinematogram plugin for web-based research: implementing oriented objects enables varying coherence levels and stimulus congruency levels. Behavior Research Methods, 55(2), 883–898. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01767-3
Livanec, S., Stumpf, M., Reuter, L., Fenn, J., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Who’s gonna use this? Acceptance prediction of emerging technologies with Cognitive-Affective Mapping and transdisciplinary considerations in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review, 9(2), 276–295. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196221078924
Aufschnaiter, S., Zhao, F., Gaschler, R., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2022). Investigating time-based expectancy beyond binary timing scenarios: evidence from a paradigm employing three predictive pre-target intervals. Psychological Research, 86(6), 2007–2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01606-2
Monno, I., Aufschnaiter, S., Ehret, S., Kiesel, A., Poljac, E., & Thomaschke, R. (2022). Time-based task expectancy: perceptual task indicator expectancy or expectancy of post-perceptual task components? Psychological Research, 86, 1665–1682. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01588-1
Reuter, L., Mansell, J., Rhea, C., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Direct assessment of individual connotation and experience : an introduction to cognitive-affective mapping. Politics and the Life Sciences, 41(1), 131–139. https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2021.31
Straub, E. R., Schmidts, C., Kunde, W., Zhang, J., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2022). Limitations of cognitive control on emotional distraction – congruency in the color stroop task does not modulate the emotional stroop effect. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 22(1), 21–41. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00935-4
Monno, I., Spitzer, M. W. H., Miller, J., Dignath, D., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Scaling of the parameters for cost balancing in self- organized task switching. Journal of Cognition, 4(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.137
Langhanns, C., Monno, I., Maurer, H., Ebel, J., Müller, H., & Kiesel, A. (2021). The self-organized task switching paradigm: movement effort matters. Acta Psychologica, 221, 103446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103446
Johannsen, L., Müller, H., Kiesel, A., & Koch, I. (2021). The state-of-the-art of research into human multitasking: an editorial. Journal of Cognition, 4(1), 54. https://doi.org/10.18154/rwth-2021-08731
Dignath, D., Kiesel, A., Schiltenwolf, M., & Hazeltine, E. (2021). Multiple routes to control in the prime-target task: congruence sequence effects emerge due to modulation of irrelevant prime activity and utilization of temporal order information. Journal of Cognition, 4(1), joc.143. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.143
Bindschädel, J., Krems, I., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Interaction between pedestrians and automated vehicles: Exploring a motion-based approach for virtual reality experiments. Transportation Research, 82, 316–332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2021.08.018
Dignath, D., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Further evidence for the binding and retrieval of control-states from the Flanker task. Experimental Psychology, 68(5), 264–273. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000529
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Nothdurft, U., Kiesel, A., Kreil, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2021). Die kognitiv-affektive Kartierung des Begriffs “Muße”. https://doi.org/10.6094/UNIFR/220778
Mansell, J., Reuter, L., Rhea, C., & Kiesel, A. (2021). A novel network approach to capture cognition and affect: COVID-19 experiences in Canada and Germany. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 663627. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.663627
Reuter, L., Fenn, J., Bilo, T. A., Schulz, M., Weyland, A. L., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2021). Leisure walks modulate the cognitive and affective representation of the corona pandemic: employing cognitive‐affective maps within a randomized experimental design. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 13(4), 952–967. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12283
Rieger, T., Mittelstädt, V., Dignath, D., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Investigating limits of task prioritization in dual-tasking: evidence from the prioritized processing and the psychological refractory period paradigms. Psychological Research, 85(1), 384–396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01250-x
Mittelstädt, V., Schaffernak, I., Miller, J., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Balancing cognitive and environmental constraints when deciding to switch tasks: exploring self-reported task-selection strategies in self-organised multitasking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(4), 598–609. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820970079
Aufschnaiter, S., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2021). Time-based transition expectancy in task switching: do we need to know the task to switch to? Journal of Cognition, 4(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.145
Möller, M., Höfele, P., Kiesel, A., & Speck, O. (2021). Reactions of sciences to the Anthropocene: highlighting inter- and transdisciplinary practices in biomimetics and sustainability research. Elementa : Science of the Anthropocene, 9(1), 035. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.035
Höfele, P., Livanec, S., Kiesel, A., Müller, O., & Hühn, L. (2020). The concept of life in livMatS and the Anthropocene: a multi-layered analysis of life. In FIT. Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies.
Dignath, D., Kiesel, A., Frings, C., & Pastötter, B. (2020). Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect prediction. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 149(6), 1148–1155. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000707
Rutsch, J., Menz, C., Becker, N., Bengel, J., Dickhäuser, O., Kiesel, A., Wilhelm, O., & Spinath, B. (2020). Qualitätsaspekte bei der Einführung eines Studierendenauswahlverfahrens am Beispiel der Psychologie. Qualität in Der Wissenschaft, 14(3), 77–83.
Ruess, M., Thomaschke, R., & Kiesel, A. (2020). Intentional binding for unintended effects. Timing & Time Perception, 8(3-4), 341–349. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10005
Reinmueller, K., Kiesel, A., & Steinhauser, M. (2020). Adverse behavioral adaptation to adaptive forward collision warning systems: An investigation of primary and secondary task performance. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 146, 105718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2020.105718
Frings, C., Koch, I., Rothermund, K., Dignath, D., Giesen, C., Hommel, B., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., Mayr, S., Moeller, B., Möller, M., & Pfister, R. (2020). Merkmalsintegration und Abruf als wichtige Prozesse der Handlungssteuerung – eine Paradigmen-übergreifende Perspektive. Psychologische Rundschau, 71(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000423
Frings, C., Hommel, B., Koch, I., Rothermund, K., Dignath, D., Giesen, C., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., Mayr, S., Moeller, B., Möller, M., & Pfister, R. (2020). Binding and retrieval in action control (BRAC). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(5), 375–387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.02.004
Straub, E., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2020). Cognitive control of emotional distraction – valence-specific or general? Cognition and Emotion, 34(4), 807–821. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1666799
Pfeuffer, C. U., Moutsopoulou, K., Waszak, F., & Kiesel, A. (2020). Execution-based and verbal code-based stimulus–response associations: proportion manipulations reveal conflict adaptation processes in item-specific priming. Psychological Research, 84(8), 2172–2195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01220-3
Pfeuffer, C. U., Aufschnaiter, S., Thomaschke, R., & Kiesel, A. (2020). Only time will tell the future: anticipatory saccades reveal the temporal dynamics of time-based location and task expectancy. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 46(10), 1183–1200. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000850
Aufschnaiter, S., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2020). Humans derive task expectancies from sub-second and supra-second interval durations. Psychological Research, 84, 1333–1345. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01155-9
Hölle, D., Aufschnaiter, S., Bogon, J., Pfeuffer, C. U., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2020). Quality ratings of wine bottles in e-commerce: the influence of time delays and spatial arrangement. Journal of Wine Research, 31(2), 152–170. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571264.2020.1723067
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
Dignath, D., Eder, A. B., Steinhauser, M., & Kiesel, A. (2020). Conflict monitoring and the affective-signaling hypothesis – an integrative review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 193–216. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01668-9
Longman, C. S., Kiesel, A., & Verbruggen, F. (2020). Learning in the absence of overt practice: a novel (previously unseen) stimulus can trigger retrieval of an unpracticed response. Psychological Research, 84, 1065–1083. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1106-4
Ruess, M., Thomaschke, R., & Kiesel, A. (2020). Acting and reacting: is intentional binding due to sense of agency or to temporal expectancy? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000700
Stumpf, M., & Kiesel, A. (2019). Kognitiv-affektive Karten. In Dorsch – Lexikon der Psychologie. Hogrefe.
Mittelstädt, V., Miller, J., & Kiesel, A. (2019). Linking task selection to task performance: Internal and predictable external processing constraints jointly influence voluntary task switching behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45(12), 1529–1548. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000690
Dignath, D., Herbort, O., Pieczykolan, A., Huestegge, L., & Kiesel, A. (2019). Flexible coupling of covert spatial attention and motor planning based on learned spatial contingencies. Psychological Research, 83, 476–484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1134-0
Dignath, D., Johannsen, L., Hommel, B., & Kiesel, A. (2019). Reconciling cognitive-control and episodic-retrieval accounts of sequential conflict modulation: Binding of control-states into event-files. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45(9), 1265–1270. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000673
Moutsopoulou, K., Pfeuffer, C. U., Kiesel, A., Yang, Q., & Waszak, F. (2019). How long is long-term priming? Classification and action priming in the scale of days. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(5), 1183–1199. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818784261
Pfeuffer, C. U., Pfister, R., Foerster, A., Stecher, F., & Kiesel, A. (2019). Binding lies: Flexible retrieval of honest and dishonest behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45(2), 157–173. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000600
Zhang, J., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2019). Affective influence on context-specific proportion congruent (CSPC) effect: Neutral or affective facial expressions as context stimuli. Experimental Psychology, 66(1), 86–97. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000436
Ruess, M., Thomaschke, R., Haering, C., Wenke, D., & Kiesel, A. (2018). Intentional binding of two effects. Psychological Research, 82(6), 1102–1112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0892-4
Poljac, E., Kiesel, A., Koch, I., & Müller, H. J. (2018). New perspectives on human multitasking. Psychological Research, 82(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-0970-2
Poljac, E., Haartsen, R., Cruijsen, R. van der, Kiesel, A., & Poljac, E. (2018). Task intentions and their implementation into actions : cognitive control from adolescence to middle adulthood. Psychological Research, 82(1), 215–229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0927-x
Pfeuffer, C. U., Hosp, T., Kimmig, E., Moutsopoulou, K., Waszak, F., & Kiesel, A. (2018). Defining stimulus representation in stimulus-response associations formed on the basis of task execution and verbal codes. Psychological Research, 82, 744–758. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0861-y
Mittelstädt, V., Miller, J., & Kiesel, A. (2018). Trading off switch costs and stimulus availability benefits : an investigation of voluntary task-switching behavior in a predictable dynamic multitasking environment. Memory & Cognition, 46, 699–715. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0802-z
Koch, I., Poljac, E., Müller, H. J., & Kiesel, A. (2018). Cognitive structure, flexibility, and plasticity in human multitasking — an integrative review of dual-task and task-switching research. Psychological Bulletin, 144(6), 557–583. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000144
Aufschnaiter, S., Kiesel, A., Dreisbach, G., Wenke, D., & Thomaschke, R. (2018). Time-based expectancy in temporally structured task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 44(6), 856–870. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000494
Pfeuffer, C. U., Moutsopoulou, K., Waszak, F., & Kiesel, A. (2018). Multiple priming instances increase the impact of practice-based but not verbal code-based stimulus-response associations. Acta Psychologica, 184, 100–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.05.001
Aufschnaiter, S., Kiesel, A., & Thomaschke, R. (2018). Transfer of time-based task expectancy across different timing environments. Psychological Research, 82(1), 230–243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0895-1
Mittelstädt, V., Dignath, D., Schmidt-Ott, M., & Kiesel, A. (2018). Exploring the repetition bias in voluntary task switching. Psychological Research, 82(1), 78–91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0911-5
Ruess, M., Thomaschke, R., & Kiesel, A. (2018b). The time course of intentional binding for late effects. Timing & Time Perception, 6, 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-00002099
Ruess, M., Thomaschke, R., & Kiesel, A. (2018a). Intentional binding of visual effects. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(3), 713–722. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1479-2
Ruess, M., Thomaschke, R., & Kiesel, A. (2017). Earlier effects are more often perceived as one’s own action effects. Timing & Time Perception, 5(3-4), 228–243. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-00002091
Rittger, L., Reinmueller, K., & Kiesel, A. (2017). Measuring information demand of a dynamic in-vehicle display while driving – a study evaluating the MARS (masking action relevant stimuli) method. Transportation Research, 51, 14–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2017.08.009
Broeker, L., Kiesel, A., Aufschnaiter, S., Ewolds, H. E., Gaschler, R., Haider, H., Künzell, S., Raab, M., Röttger, E., Thomaschke, R., & Zhao, F. (2017). Why prediction matters in multitasking and how predictability can improve it. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 02021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02021
Ruess, M., Thomaschke, R., & Kiesel, A. (2017). The time course of intentional binding. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(4), 1123–1131. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1292-y
Pfeuffer, C. U., Moutsopoulou, K., Pfister, R., Waszak, F., & Kiesel, A. (2017). The power of words : on item-specific stimulus–response associations formed in the absence of action. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 43(2), 328–347. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000317
Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2017). Effort in multitasking : local and global assessment of effort. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 111. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00111
Jagiełłowicz-Kaufmann, M. S., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2016). Akzeptable und effektive Pedal- und Motorkennlinien zur Unterstützung von Eco-Driving im Elektrofahrzeug.
Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2016). Time perception and the experience of agency. Psychological Research, 80(2), 286–297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0654-0
Bermeitinger, C., Kaup, B., Kiesel, A., Koch, I., Kunde, W., Müsseler, J., Oberfeld-Twistel, D., Strobach, T., & Ulrich, R. (2016). Positionspapier zur Lage der Allgemeinen Psychologie. Psychologische Rundschau, 67(3), 175–179. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000317
Thomaschke, R., Hoffmann, J., Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2016). Time-based expectancy for task relevant stimulus features. Timing & Time Perception, 4(3), 248–270. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-00002069
Pfeuffer, C. U., Kiesel, A., & Huestegge, L. (2016). A look into the future : spontaneous anticipatory saccades reflect processes of anticipatory action control. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 145(11), 1530–1547. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000224
Naujoks, F., Kiesel, A., & Neukum, A. (2016). Cooperative warning systems : the impact of false and unnecessary alarms on drivers’ compliance. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 97, 162–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2016.09.009
Naujoks, F., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2015). Frühzeitige Fahrerinformationen zur Konfliktvermeidung bei urbanen Verkehrskonflikten – Gestaltung und Absicherung.
Rittger, L., Schmidt, G., Maag, C., & Kiesel, A. (2015). Driving behaviour at traffic light intersections. Cognition, Technology & Work, 17(4), 593–605. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-015-0339-x
Reuss, H., Kiesel, A., Pohl, C., & Kunde, W. (2015). Instructed illiteracy reveals expertise-effects on unconscious processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00239
Reuss, H., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2015). Adjustments of response speed and accuracy to unconscious cues. Cognition, 134, 57–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.09.005
Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2015). Was it me when it happened too early? : experience of delayed effects shapes sense of agency. Cognition, 136, 38–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.012
Dignath, D., Kiesel, A., & Eder, A. B. (2015). Flexible conflict management: Conflict avoidance and conflict adjustment in reactive cognitive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(4), 975–988. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000089
Reuss, H., Desender, K., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2014). Unconscious conflicts in unconscious contexts: the role of awareness and timing in flexible conflict adaptation. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 143(4), 1701–1718. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036437
Dignath, D., Pfister, R., Eder, A. B., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2014). Something in the way she moves—movement trajectories reveal dynamics of self-control. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(3), 809–816. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-013-0517-x
Pfister, R., Melcher, T., Kiesel, A., Dechent, P., & Gruber, O. (2014). Neural correlates of ideomotor effect anticipations. Neuroscience, 259, 164–171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.11.061
Rittger, L., Kiesel, A., Schmidt, G., & Maag, C. (2014). Masking Action Relevant Stimuli in dynamic environments – the MARS method. Transportation Research, 27, 150–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2014.10.002
Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2014). Intentional Binding is independent of the validity of the action effect’s identity. Acta Psychologica, 152, 109–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.07.015
Zarife, R., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2014). Integrative warning concept for multiple driver assistance systems.
Pohl, C., Kunde, W., Ganz, T., Conzelmann, A., Pauli, P., & Kiesel, A. (2014). Gaming to see: action video gaming is associated with enhanced processing of masked stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 00070. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00070
Wendt, M., Kiesel, A., Geringswald, F., Purmann, S., & Fischer, R. (2014). Attentional adjustment to conflict strength. Experimental Psychology, 61(1), 55–67. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000227
Dignath, D., Pfister, R., Eder, A. B., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2014). Representing the hyphen in action–effect associations: Automatic acquisition and bidirectional retrieval of action–effect intervals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(6), 1701–1712. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000022
Waszak, F., Pfister, R., & Kiesel, A. (2013). Top-down versus bottom-up: when instructions overcome automatic retrieval. Psychological Research, 77(5), 611–617. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-012-0459-3
Reuss, H., & Kiesel, A. (2013). The interplay of unconscious processing and cognitive control.
Fischer, R., Plessow, F., & Kiesel, A. (2013). The effects of alerting signals in masked priming. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 00448. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00448
Wendt, M., Kiesel, A., Mathew, H., Luna-Rodriguez, A., & Jacobsen, T. (2013). Irrelevant stimulus processing when switching between tasks. Zeitschrift Für Psychologie, 221(1), 41–50. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000129
Wendt, M., Luna-Rodriguez, A., Kiesel, A., & Jacobsen, T. (2013). Conflict adjustment devoid of perceptual selection. Acta Psychologica, 144(1), 31–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.04.019
Pfister, R., Pohl, C., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2012). Your unconscious knows your name. PLOS ONE, 7(3), e32402. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032402
Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2012b). Time in action contexts: learning when an action effect occurs. Psychological Research, 76(3), 336–344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-011-0341-8
Plessow, F., Kiesel, A., & Kirschbaum, C. (2012). The stressed prefrontal cortex and goal-directed behaviour: acute psychosocial stress impairs the flexible implementation of task goals. Experimental Brain Research, 216(3), 397–408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2943-1
Fischer, R., Plessow, F., & Kiesel, A. (2012). The effects of alerting signals in action control: activation of S–R associations or inhibition of executive control processes? Psychological Research, 76(3), 317–328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-011-0350-7
Strobach, T., Liepelt, R., Schubert, T., & Kiesel, A. (2012). Task switching: effects of practice on switch and mixing costs. Psychological Research, 76(1), 74–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-011-0323-x
Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2012a). Mine is earlier than yours: causal beliefs influence the perceived time of action effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 00393. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00393
Pohl, C., & Kiesel, A. (2012). Feature processing and feature integration in unconscious processing : a Study with chess novices and experts.
Kunde, W., Reuss, H., & Kiesel, A. (2012). Consciousness and cognitive control. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 8(1), 9–18. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0097-x
Nolden, S., Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2012). Assessing intentional binding with the method of constant stimuli. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(3), 1176–1185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2012.05.003
Reuss, H., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., & Wühr, P. (2012). A cue from the unconscious – masked symbols prompt spatial anticipation. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 00397. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00397
Pfister, R., Heinemann, A., Kiesel, A., Thomaschke, R., & Janczyk, M. (2012). Do endogenous and exogenous action control compete for perception? Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 38(2), 279–284. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026658
Reuss, H., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., & Hommel, B. (2011). Unconscious activation of task sets. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(3), 556–567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.02.014
Fischer, R., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., & Schubert, T. (2011). Selective impairment of masked priming in dual-task performance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(3), 572–595. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2010.505984
Steinhauser, M., & Kiesel, A. (2011). Performance monitoring and the causal attribution of errors. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 11(3), 309–320. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-011-0033-2
Pfister, R., Kiesel, A., & Hoffmann, J. (2011). Learning at any rate: action–effect learning for stimulus-based actions. Psychological Research, 75(1), 61–65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-010-0288-1
Bilalic, M., Kiesel, A., Pohl, C., Erb, M., & Grodd, W. (2011). It takes two-skilled recognition of objects engages lateral areas in both hemispheres. PLOS ONE, 6(1), e16202. https://doi.org/10.18154/rwth-conv-024331
Reuss, H., Pohl, C., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2011). Follow the sign! Top-down contingent attentional capture of masked arrow cues. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 7(-1), 82–91. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10053-008-0091-3
Wendt, M., & Kiesel, A. (2011). Conflict adaptation in time: foreperiods as contextual cues for attentional adjustment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(5), 910–916. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-011-0119-4
Plessow, F., Kiesel, A., Petzold, A., & Kirschbaum, C. (2011). Chronic sleep curtailment impairs the flexible implementation of task goals in new parents. Journal of Sleep Research, 20(2), 279–287. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2010.00878.x
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Thomaschke, R., Kiesel, A., & Hoffmann, J. (2011). Response specific temporal expectancy: evidence from a variable foreperiod paradigm. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(7), 2309–2322. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0179-6
Fischer, R., Plessow, F., Kunde, W., & Kiesel, A. (2010). Trial-to-trial modulations of the Simon effect in conditions of attentional limitations: evidence from dual tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 36(6), 1576–1594. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019326
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German Psychological Society, Sections for General Psychology, Traffic Psychology, and Sport Psychology
European Society for Cognitive Psychology
Psychonomic Society
Woman in Cognitive Sciences

Roles in scientific societies

2021-2022

President of the european society for cognitive psychology (ESCOP)

Since 2021

Board member Woman in Cognitive Sciences – Europe (WiCS-E)

2019-2020

President-elect of the european society for cognitive psychology (ESCOP)

Since 2017

Advisory council member for the international association for the study of attention and performance (A&P)

2011-2012

Assessor of the executive committee for general psychology

2010-2013

Treasurer of the european society for cognitive psychology

2009 – 2012

Member of the executive committee of the european society for cognitive psychology.

2007 – 2009

„local officer“ of the european society for cognitive psychology (ESCOP)