Senior-Prof. Dr. Klaus ­ Fiedler

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Academic Career

• 1975: Diploma in psychology. Diploma thesis on misattribution of emotional reactions.
• 1979: Dr. phil. Dissertation on social judgment formation. Dissertation award of the University of Giessen.
• 1984: Habilitation (a kind of advanced PhD in the German academic system), based on a monograph on contingency assessment.
• 1975 - 1978: Research assistant in a large-scale project on computer utilization in the study of psychology. Development of computer-assisted instruction programs and computer-controlled experiments.
• 1978 - 1980: Research assistant in the Psychological Department of the University of Giessen. Research and teaching in psycholinguistics, experimental and social psychology.
• 1980 - 1982: Habilitation fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Experimental studies on contingency detection and rule learning.
• 1982 - 1987: Assistant professor University of Giessen. Teaching and research in methodology, social and experimental psychology.
• 1987 - 1990: Psychology professor (C2) in cognitive and social-cognitive psychology, University of Giessen.
• 1990 - 1992: Professor (C3) for social psychology and microsociology in Mannheim.
• since 1992: Full professor (C4) for social psychology at the University of Heidelberg.

Selected Publications

Fiedler, K. (2020). Elusive alpha and beta control in a multicausal world. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 42(2), 79-87

Fiedler, K., Krüger, T., Koch, A., & Kutzner, F. (2020). Dyadic judgments based on conflicting samples: The failure to ignore invalid input. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 2020,1-14.

Fiedler, K., Hofferbert, J., & Wöllert, F. (2018). Metacognitive myopia in hidden-profile tasks: The failure to control for repetition biases. Frontiers in Psychology, 9

Fiedler, K., Ackerman, R., & Scarampi, C. (2019). Metacognition: Monitoring and controlling one’s own knowledge, reasoning and decisions. In R.J. Sternberg & J. Funke (Eds.), The psychology of human thought: An introduction. Heidelberg University Publishing.

Fiedler, K., Schott, M., Kareev, Y., Avrahami, J., Ackerman, R., Goldsmith, M., … Pantazi, M. (2019). Metacognitive myopia in change detection: A collective approach to overcome a persistent anomaly. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Fiedler, K., Hütter, M., Schott, M., & Kutzner, F. (2019). Metacognitive myopia and the overutilization of misleading advice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Prager, J., Krueger, J. I., & Fiedler, K. (2018). Towards a deeper understanding of impression formation – New insights gained from a cognitive-ecological perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115(3), 379-397.

Fiedler, K. (2017). What constitutes strong psychological science? The (neglected) role of diagnosticity and a priori theorizing. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(1), 46-61.

Fiedler, K., Kareev, Y., Avrahami, J., Beier, S., Kutzner, F., & Hütter, M. (2016). Anomalies in the detection of change: When changes in sample size are mistaken for changes in proportions. Memory & Cognition, 44(1), 143-161.

Fiedler, K., & Schwarz, N. (2016). Questionable research practices revisited. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(1), 45-52.

Kutzner, F. L., & Fiedler, K. (2015). No correlation, no evidence for attention shift in category learning: Different mechanisms behind illusory correlations and the inverse base-rate effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(1), 58-75.

Kareev, Y., Avrahami, J., & Fiedler, K. (2014). Strategic interactions, affective reactions, and fast adaptations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1112-1126.

Fiedler, K. (2012). Meta-cognitive myopia and the dilemmas of inductive-statistical inference. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 57, 1-55.

Fiedler, K., & Unkelbach, C. (2011). Evaluative conditioning depends on higher order cognitive processes. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 639-656.

Fiedler, K., Freytag, P., & Meiser, T. (2009). Pseudocontingencies: An Integrative Account of an Intriguing Cognitive Illusion. Psychological Review, 116, 187-206.

Fiedler, K. (2008). The ultimate sampling dilemma in experience-based decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 34, 186-203.

Fiedler, K., Freytag, P., & Unkelbach, C. (2007). Pseudocontingencies in a simulated classroom. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 665-667.

Fiedler, K., Schenck, W., Watling, M., & Menges, J. (2005). Priming trait inferences through pictures and moving pictures: The impact of open and closed mindsets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 229-244.

Fiedler, K. (2000). Beware of samples! A cognitive-ecological sampling theory of judgment biases. Psychological Review, 107, 659-676.

Fiedler, K. (1996). Explaining and simulating judgment biases as an aggregation phenomenon in probabilistic, multiple-cue environments. Psychological Review, 103, 193-214.

Publications (2017)

• Fiedler, K. (2017). What constitutes strong psychological science? The (neglected) role of diagnosticity and a-priori theorizing. Perspectives on Psychological Science, January issue. R
• Unkelbach, C., & Fiedler, K. (2016). Contrastive CS-US relations reverse evaluative conditioning effects. Social Cognition, 34(5), 413-434. doi:10.1521/soco.2016.34.5.413 R
• Fiedler, K. (2017). Illusory correlation. In R. F. Pohl, R. F. Pohl (Eds.) , Cognitive illusions: Intriguing phenomena in thinking, judgment and memory (pp. 115-133). New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
• Hütter, M., & Fiedler, K. (2016). Editorial: Conceptual, theoretical, and methodological challenges in evaluative conditioning research. Social Cognition, 34(5), 343-356. doi:10.1521/soco.2016.34.5.343 R
• Alexopoulos, T., Lemonnier, A., & Fiedler, K. (2017). Higher order influences on evaluative priming: Processing styles moderate congruity effects. Cognition and Emotion, 31(1), 57-68. doi:10.1080/02699931.2015.1080666 R
• Avrahami, J., Kareev, Y., & Fiedler, K. (2017). The dynamics of choice in a changing world: Effects of full and partial feedback. Memory & Cognition, 45(1), 1-11. doi:10.3758/s13421-016-0637-4 R
• Kutzner, F. & Fiedler, K. (2017). Stereotypes as Pseudocontingencies. European Review of Social Psychology, 28:1, 1-49, DOI: 10.1080/10463283.2016.1260238 R
• Fiedler, K. & Kutzner, F. (2017). Pseudocontingencies. In M. Waldmann (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of causal reasoning (pp. 189-200). Oxford University Press.
• Fiedler, K. (2017). Wo sind die wissenschaftlichen Standards für hochwertige Replikationsforschung? [Where are the scientific standards for high-quality replication research?] Psychologische Rundschau. R
• Fiedler, K., & Schott, M. (2017). False negatives. In S. O. Lilienfeld, I. D. Waldman, S. O. Lilienfeld, I. D. Waldman (Eds.) , Psychological science under scrutiny: Recent challenges and proposed solutions (pp. 53-72). Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781119095910.ch4•    Fiedler, K., & Schott, M. (2017). False negatives. In S. O. Lilienfeld, I. D. Waldman, S. O. Lilienfeld, I. D. Waldman (Eds.) , Psychological science under scrutiny: Recent challenges and proposed solutions (pp. 53-72). Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781119095910.ch4
  

Peer Reviewed Publications (2013)

• Hütter, M., Kutzner, F., & Fiedler, K. (2013). What Is Learned From Repeated Pairings? On the Scope and Generalizability of Evaluative Conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  
• Vogel, T., Freytag, P., Kutzner, F., & Fiedler, K. (2013). Pseudocontingencies derived from categorically organized memory representations. Memory & Cognition.
  
• Hansen, J., Rim, S., & Fiedler, K. (2013). Psychological distance and judgments of causal impact. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Fiedler, K., Kutzner, F., & Vogel, T. (2013). Pseudocontingencies: Logically unwarranted but smart inferences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(4), 324-329.
  
• Asendorpf, J.P., Conner, M. De Fruyt F. De Houwer, J. Denissen, J.J. A., Fiedler, K.,
• Fiedler, S., Funder, D.C., Kliegl, R. Nosek, B., Perugini, M., Roberts, B.W. Schmitt, M., van Aken, M.A.G., Weber, H., and Wicherts, J.M. (2013). Replication is more than hitting the lottery twice. European Journal of Personality, 27(2), 138-144.
• Asendorpf, J. B., Conner, M., De Fruyt, F., De Houwer, J., Denissen, J.J.A., Fiedler, K., Fiedler, S., Funder, D. C., Kliegl, R., Nosek, B. A.,Perugini, M., Roberts, B. W., Schmitt, M., van Aken, M. A. G., Weber, H., & Wicherts, J. M. (2013). Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology. European Journal Of Personality, 27(2), 108-119.

 

Peer Reviewed Publications (2012)

• Fiedler, K., Kutzner, F., & Krueger, J. I. (2012). The long way from α-error control to validity proper: Problems with a short-sighted false-positive debate. Perspectives On Psychological Science, 7(6), 661-669.
• Alexopoulos, T., Fiedler, K., & Freytag, P. (2012). The impact of open and closed mindsets on evaluative priming. Cognition and Emotion, 26(6), 978-994.
• Fiedler, K. (2012). Meta-cognitive myopia and the dilemmas of inductive-statistical inference. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 57, 1-55.

Peer Reviewed Publications (2011)

• Fiedler, K., Schott, M., & Meiser, T. (2011). What mediation analysis can (not) do. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Kutzner, F., Vogel, T., Freytag, P., & Fiedler, K. (2011). Contingency inferences driven by base rates: Valid by sampling. Judgment and Decision Making, 6(3), 211-221.
• Fiedler, K., & Kareev, Y. (2011). Clarifying the advantage of small samples – As it relates to statistical wisdom and Cahan’s normative intuitions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.
• Kareev, Y., & Fiedler, K. (2011). Judge for Yourself: Response to Evans & Buehner (2011). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.
• Kutzner, F., Vogel, T., Freytag, P., & Fiedler, K. (2011). A Robust Classic: Illusory correlations are maintained under extended operant learning. Experimental Psychology.
• De Houwer, J., Fiedler, K., & Moors, A. (2011). Strengths and limitations of theoretical explanations in psychology: Introduction to the special section. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 161-162.
• Fiedler, K., Bluemke, M., & Unkelbach, C. (2011). On the adaptive flexibility of evaluative priming. Memory & Cognition, 39(4), 557-572.
• Fiedler, K., & Unkelbach, C. (2011). Evaluative conditioning depends on higher order cognitive processes. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 639-656.
• Freytag, P., Bluemke, M., & Fiedler, K. (2011). An adaptive-learning approach to affect regulation: Strategic influences on evaluative priming. Cognition & Emotion, 25(3), 426-439.
• Eder, A. B., Fiedler, K., & Hamm-Eder, S. (2011). Illusory correlations revisited: The role of pseudocontingencies and working-memory capacity. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(3), 517-532.
• Fiedler, K., Freytag, P., & Unkelbach, C. (2011). Great oaks from giant acorns grow: How causal-impact judgments depend on the strength of a cause. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(2), 162-172.
• Fiedler, K., & Unkelbach, C. (2011). Lottery attractiveness and presentation mode of probability and value information. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24(1), 99-115.
• Fiedler, K. (2011). Voodoo correlations are everywhere – Not only in social neurosciences. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 163-171.

 

Peer Reviewed Publications (2010)

• Samochowiec, J., Wänke, M., & Fiedler, K. (2010). Political ideology at face value. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 1, 206-213.
• Fiedler, K., Renn, S., & Kareev, Y. (2010). Mood and judgments based on sequential sampling. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23(5), 483-495.
• Fiedler, K. (2010). Pseudocontingencies can override genuine contingencies between multiple cues. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17(4), 504-509.
• Vogel, T., Kutzner, F., Fiedler, K., & Freytag, P. (2010). Exploiting attractiveness in persuasion: Senders’ implicit theories about receivers’ processing motivation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(6), 830-842.
• Friese, M., & Fiedler, K. (2010). Being on the lookout for validity: Comment on Sriram and Greenwald (2009). Experimental Psychology, 57(3), 228-232.
• Fiedler, K. (2010). How to Study Cognitive Decision Algorithms: The Case of the Priority Heuristic. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 21-32.

 

Peer Reviewed Publications (2009)

• Kareev, Y., Fiedler, K. & Avrahami, J. (2009). Base rates, contingencies, and prediction behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 35, 371–380. 
• Fiedler, K., Kaczor, K., Haarmann, S., Stegmüller, M., & Maloney, J. (2009). Incidental and intentional memory for faces: When eyewitnesses are interested in targets’ attraction, rather than their identity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 793-807.
• Fiedler, K., Freytag, P., & Meiser, T. (2009). Pseudocontingencies: An Integrative Account of an Intriguing Cognitive Illusion. Psychological Review, 116, 187-206.
• Kutzner, F., Freytag, P., Vogel, T., & Fiedler, K. (2009). Base-rate neglect based on base-rates in experience-based contingency learning. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 90, 23–32.
• Fiedler, K., Unkelbach, C., & Freytag, P. (2009). On splitting and merging categories: A regression account of subadditivity. Memory & Cognition, 37, 383-393.
• Fiedler, K., & Wänke, M. (2009). The cognitive-ecological approach to rationality in social psychology. Social Cognition, 27, 699-732.
• Fiedler, K. (2009). On embodied cognition and mental simulation: A meta-theoretical comment to Zwaan’s treatise. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1156-1159.
• Fiedler, K., Renn, S.-Y., & Kareev, Y. (2009). Mood and decisions based on sequential sampling. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 22, 1-13.
• Bluemke, M. & Fiedler, K. (2009). Baserate effects on the IAT. Consciousness & Cognition, 18,1029-1038.

 

Peer Reviewed Publications (2008)

• Unkelbach, C., Fiedler, K., Bayer, M., Stegmüller, M., & Danner, D. (2008). Why positive information is processed faster: The density hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(1), 36-49.
• Fiedler, K. (2008). The implicit meta-theory that has inspired and restricted LCM research: Why some studies were conducted but others not. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 27(2), 182-196.
• Fiedler, K. (2008). The ultimate sampling dilemma in experience-based decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34(1), 186-203.
• Fiedler, K. (2008). Language: A toolbox for sharing and influencing social reality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(1), 38-47.
• Unkelbach, C., Fiedler, K., Bayer, M., Stegmüller, M., & Danner, D. (2008). Why positive information is processed faster: The density hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(1), 36–49. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.95.1.36

 Peer Reviewed Publications (2007)

• Kiefer, M., Schuch, S., Schenck, W., & Fiedler, K. (2007). Mood states modulate activity in semantic brain areas during emotional word encoding. Cerebral Cortex, 17(7), 1516-1530.
• Unkelbach, C., Fiedler, K., & Freytag, P. (2007). Information repetition in evaluative judgments: Easy to monitor, hard to control. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 103(1), 37-52.
• Fiedler, K., Freytag, P., & Unkelbach, C. (2007). Pseudocontingencies in a simulated classroom. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(4), 665-677.
• Kiefer, M., Schuch, S., Schenck, W., & Fiedler, K. (2007). Emotion and memory: Event-related potential indices predictive for subsequent successful memory depend on the emotional mood state. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3(3), 363-373.
• Fiedler, K. (2007). Construal level theory as an integrative framework for behavioral decision-making research and consumer psychology. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 17(2), 101-106.

 

 Peer Reviewed Publications (2006)

• Koriat, A., Fiedler, K., & Bjork, R. A. (2006). Inflation of conditional predictions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135(3), 429-447.
• Kareev, Y., & Fiedler, K. (2006). Nonproportional Sampling and the Amplification of Correlations. Psychological Science, 17(8), 715-720.
• Fiedler, K., & Kareev, Y. (2006). Does decision quality (always) increase with the size of information samples? Some vicissitudes in applying the law of large numbers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32(4), 883-903.
• Fiedler, K., Messner, C., & Bluemke, M. (2006). Unresolved problems with the 'I', the 'A', and the 'T': A logical and psychometric critique of the Implicit Association Test (IAT). European Review of Social Psychology, 17, 74-147.

 

 Peer Reviewed Publications (2005)

• Fiedler, K., & Wänke, M. (2005). On the vicissitudes of cultural and evolutionary approaches to social cognition: The case of meta-cognitive myopia. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 2, 23-42.
• Fiedler, K., & Bluemke, M. (2005). Faking the IAT: Aided and unaided response control on the implicit association tests. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 27(4), 307-316.
• Fiedler, K., Schenck, W., Watling, M., & Menges, J. I. (2005). Priming Trait Inferences Through Pictures and Moving Pictures: The Impact of Open and Closed Mindsets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(2), 229-244.

 

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications (2004 and before)

• Fiedler, K., & Freytag, P. (2004). Pseudocontingencies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87(4), 453-467.
• Fiedler, K. (2004). Tools, toys, tenure, truisms, and theories: Some thoughts on the creative cycle of theory formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8, 123-131.
• Fiedler, K., Blümke, M., & Friese, M. (2003). On the different uses of linguistic abstractness: From LIB to LEB and beyond. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 441-453.
• Fiedler, K., Walther, E., Freytag, P., & Nickel, S. (2003) Inductive reasoning and judgment interference: Experiments on Simpsons paradox. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 14-27.
• Fiedler, K. (2000). Beware of samples! A cognitive-ecological sampling approach to judgment biases. Psychological Review, 107(4), 659-676.
• Fiedler, K. (1996). Explaining and simulating judgment biases as an aggregation phenomenon in probabilistic, multiple-cue environments. Psychological Review, 103(1), 193-214.

 
 

 Book Chapters

• Fiedler, K., Kareev, Y., Plessner, H., Betsch, C., & Betsch, T. (2008). Implications and ramifications of a sample-size approach to intuition. In Intuition in judgment and decision making. (pp. 149-170). Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
• Kashima, Y., Fiedler, K., Freytag, P., (2008). Stereotype dynamics: An introduction and overview. In Stereotype dynamics: Language-based approaches to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of stereotypes. (pp. 1-8). Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
• Fiedler, K., Blumke, M., Freytag, P., Unkelbach, C., Koch, S., Kashima, Y., et al. (2008). A semiotic approach to understanding the role of communication in stereotyping. In Stereotype dynamics: Language-based approaches to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of stereotypes. (pp. 95-116). Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
• Kashima, Y., Fiedler, K., & Freytag, P. (2008). Stereotype dynamics: Language-based approaches to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of stereotypes. Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
• Fiedler, K., Kruglanski, A. W., & Higgins, E. T. (2007). Information ecology and the explanation of social cognition and behavior. In Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd ed.). (pp. 176-200). New York, NY, US: Guilford Press.
• Fiedler, K. (2007). Social Communication. New York, NY, US: Psychology Press.
• Bless, H., Fiedler, K., & Forgas, J. P. (2006). Mood and the regulation of information processing and behavior. In Affect in social thinking and behavior. (pp. 65-84). New York, NY, US: Psychology Press.
• Fiedler, K., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2006). On Theories and Societal Practice: Getting Rid of a Myth. In Bridging social psychology: Benefits of transdisciplinary approaches. (pp. 65-69). Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
• Fiedler, K., Juslin, P., Fiedler, K., & Juslin, P. (2006). Taking the Interface between Mind and Environment Seriously. In Information sampling and adaptive cognition. (pp. 3-29). New York, NY, US: Cambridge University Press.
• Juslin, P., Fiedler, K., Chater, N., Fiedler, K., & Juslin, P. (2006). Less Is More in Covariation Detection--Or Is It? In Information sampling and adaptive cognition. (pp. 92-123). New York, NY, US: Cambridge University Press.
• Freytag, P., Fiedler, K., Fiedler, K., & Juslin, P. (2006). Subjective Validity Judgments as an Index of Sensitivity to Sampling Bias. In Information sampling and adaptive cognition. (pp. 127-146). New York, NY, US: Cambridge University Press.
• Fiedler, K., & Juslin, P. (2006). Information sampling and adaptive cognition. New York, NY, US: Cambridge University Press.
• Fiedler, K., & Walther, E. (2004). Stereotyping as inductive hypothesis testing. New York: Psychology Press.