Peer Reviewed Publications (2011)

• 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., Renn, S., & Kareev, Y. (2010). Mood and judgments based on sequential sampling. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23(5), 483-495.
• 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.
• Friese, M. & Fiedler, K. (2010). Being on the Lookout for Validity: Comment on Sriram and Greenwald (2009). Experimental Psychology, 57, 228-232.

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.

 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., & 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, tuisms, 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.

 Forthcoming

• Fiedler, K., & Unkelbach, C. (submitted). Reversing the evaluative conditioning of faces. Manuscript submitted for publication.
• Fiedler, K., & Prokop, I. (submitted) Some psychometric problems of criteria-based statement analysis: Codability, discriminant validity, and the Need to Control for text-length artifacts.

 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.

 Research Interests

• Language and cognition 

• Person memory 

• Inductive information processing 

• Emotion and cognition 

• Cognitive-environmental interface 

• Constructive memory 

• Lie detection 

• Associative learning 

• Judgment and decision making 

• Attribution research 

• Methodology 

• Computer simulation models