Chair of General Psychology (Focus: Cognitive Psychology)
Principle Investigator: Prof. Dr. Rico Fischer
Contact
Evelyn Reichel
Secretariat
Room 202
Consultation hours:
Monday, 9-12am + 2-4pm
Thursday, 2-4pm
Tel.: +49 (0) 3834 420 3771
Fax: +49 (0) 3834 420 3763
This site provides information about the range of courses and exams in General Psychology and Research Methods.
General Psychology focuses on basic processes of human experience and behavior. Exemplary topics are perception, attention, consciousness, action regulation, thinking and decision-making, problem solving, memory and speech (General Psychology I) as well as motivation, emotion, and learning (General Psychology II).
General Psychology is mainly interested in the functioning of these basic mental features and therefore provides the fundamental science for other psychological sub-disciplines and application areas.
Research Methodology is the basic prerequisite for understanding psychology as an empirical science by providing methodological foundations of design, implementation and evaluation of empirical studies. Beyond that, multivariate statistical methods and meta-analyses supply techniques to examine more specific questions.
Evaluation methodology is a field for application-oriented usage of a variety of social-scientific methods.
New publications
- Caisachana Guevara, L., Huber, R., Kocatas, H., Abdelmotaleb, M., Meinzer, M., & Fischer, R. (accepted). Conflict adaptation in a confound-minimized face-word Stroop task: Exploring the potential settings of an fMRI-related experiment. Frontiers in Cognition.
- Jung, A. C., Janczyk, M., Manzey, D., & Fischer, R. (accepted). Is multitasking efficient? Different metrics, different conclusions. Psychological Research.
- Nicolai, S., Hiemisch, A. & Kleemann, S. (2026) And justice for all: justice sensitivity outweighs empathy in pro-environmental behavior. Front. Psychol. 17:1712314. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1712314
- Thielscher, A., Hayek, D., Puonti, O., Grittner, U., Blankenburg, F., Fischer, R., Hartwigsen, G., Li, S-C., Meinzer, M., Nitsche, M. A., Timmann, D., Flöel, A., & Antonenko, D. (2026). Harmonizing the stimulation dose of focal transcranial direct current stimulation across target sites. NeuroImage, 331, 121882 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121882
- Sommer, A., Liepelt, R., & Fischer, R. (2025). When meaning doesn’t matter, but location does: The effect of stimulus-hand proximity on conflict processing in an auditory modality. Psychological Research. 89, 166 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02171-8
- Lück, I., Jung, A. C., Dreisbach, G., & Fischer, R. (2025). The (in)flexibility of updating a mental task representation: On the origins of costs when shifting from a task-switching to a single-task context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 51(9), 1178–1195. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001334
- Mahesan, D., & Fischer, R. (2025). Prospective reward in dual task induces a bias toward action at the cost of less accurate Task 2 performance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, DOI: 10.1177/17470218251322167
- Luna, F. G., Lupiáñez, J., König, S., Garscha, U., & Fischer, R. (2025). Can transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation mitigate vigilance loss? Examining the effects of stimulation at individualized versus constant current intensity. Psychophysiology, 62(1):e14670, https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14670.
- Jung, A. C., Lück, I., & Fischer, R. (2025). The costs of shifting from dual-task to single-task processing: Applying the fade-out paradigm to dual tasking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(5), 683–703. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001414
