Dr. Felix G?tz

Academic education

• 2019, Doctoral degree in Psychology, University of Würzburg

• 2013, Diploma in Psychology, University of Würzburg

• 2010/2011, Exchange Student, University of Salamanca

Professional employment history

• 08/2022-09/2022,?Research stay at the Interacting Minds Centre?(Prof. Cordula Vesper), Aarhus University (DK)

• 2019-present, PostDoc Researcher, Department of Experimental Psychology (Cognitive Control Lab, Prof. Gesine Dreisbach), University of Regensburg (DE)

• 2015-2019, Research Associate, Department of General Psychology II (Motivation and Emotion in Action Lab, Prof. Andreas Eder), University of Würzburg (DE)

• 10/2016-12/2016, Research stay at the Department of Cognitive Science (Social Mind and Body Group, Prof. Natalie Sebanz & Prof. Günther Knoblich), Central European University (CEU), Budapest (HU)

• 2013-2015, Research Associate, Department of Social Psychology (Social Cognition Lab, Prof. Fritz Strack), University of Würzburg (DE)

Ad hoc peer-review activities

• PLOS ONE

• Cognitive Processing

• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Professional memberships

• European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)

• German Psychological Society (DGPs)

Courses BSc Psychology (German language only)

• WiSe: Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion I: Stimulus-Response-Kompatibilit?t

• WiSe: Experimentalpsychologisches Projektseminar?(Expra) I

• SoSe: Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion II: Human Factors

• SoSe: Experimentalpsychologisches Projektseminar?(Expra) II

Courses MSc Psychology / Psychological Science (German?language only)

• Bei Bedarf/unterstützend: Forschungspraktikum (Fopra)

Supervision of theses (German & English language)

• Bachelorarbeiten / Bachelor thesis

• Masterarbeiten / Master thesis

• Praktika (im Rahmen des BSc- wie MSc-Studiums der Psychologie) / internship

Topics

• Study of Cognitive Control in the Context of?Socially Triggered Response Conflicts, i.e. Conflicts between Co-Actors in the?"Relay-race"/"Card-flipping" Joint Action Paradigm? (e.g., Congruency Sequence Effect, Proportion Congruency Effect, Reward Modulations)?[majority of BSc/MSc theses and Expra/Fopra projects]

• Study of Links between Self-Prioritization and Conflict Management in Perceptual Matching Judgments??[BSc theses]

• Study of Sociomotor Action Control in the?Joint Goal-Setting Paradigm?[BSc/MSc theses]

• Study of Automaticity of Number Processing in the?Gestalt-SNARC paradigm?[BSc theses]

• Fr?ber, K., Abel, M., B?uml, K.-H., Dreisbach, G., Kliegl, O., K?ster, M., Lingnau, A., Volberg, G., & G?tz, F. J. (eds.). (2024). Abstracts of the 66th TeaP. [Conference object] TeaP Conference 2024, Regensburg, Germany.

• Fr?ber, K., Abel, M., B?uml, K.-H., Dreisbach, G., Kliegl, O., K?ster, M., Lingnau, A., Volberg, G., & G?tz, F. J.?(2024). Program of the 66th TeaP. [Conference object] TeaP Conference 2024, Regensburg, Germany.?https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.15180

• G?tz, F. J. (2019). Social Cueing of Numerical Magnitude (Doctoral dissertation). OPUS Würzburg. https://doi.org/10.25972/OPUS-18716

Articles (peer-reviewed)

• G?tz, F. J., Dreisbach, G. (accepted). How a Co-Actor’s (Un-)Reliability Modulates Goal Selection in a Novel Joint Goal-Setting Paradigm. Psychological Research.

• Becker, D., Bijleveld, E., Braem, S. , Fr?ber, K., G?tz, F. J., Kleiman, T., K?rner, A., Pfister, R., Reiter, A. M. F., Saunders, B., Schneider, I. K. Soutschek, A., van Steenbergen, H., & Dignath, D. (2024). An integrative framework of conflict and control. Trends in Cognitive Sciences,?28(8), 757–768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.07.002??

• Krishna, A.* &?G?tz, F. J.*?(2024). Motor Coordination Induces Social Identity – A Novel Paradigm for the Investigation of the Group Performance-Identity Link. British Journal of Social Psychology.?https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12757

*shared first authors.

• K?rner, A., G?tz, F. J., & Krishna, A. (2023). Free to see the Big Picture: Autonomy Increases Abstractness of Action Identification. Collabra: Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.88165

• G?tz, F. J., Mitschke, V., & Eder, A. B. (2023). Conflict experience and resolution underlying obedience to authority.?Scientific Reports,?13(1), 11161.?https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38067-z

• G?tz, F. J., B?ckler, A., Eder, A. B. (2020). Low numbers from a low head? Effects of observed head orientation on numerical cognition. Psychological Research, 84, 2361-2374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01221-2

Invited talks

• G?tz, F. J. (2024).?No Evidence for a Link Between Self-Prioritization and Cognitive Control in Perceptual Matching Judgments.?Talk given at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg, Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2024).?How a Co-Actor's (Un)Reliability Modulates Goal Selection in a Novel Joint Goal-Setting Paradigm.?Talk given at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg, Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2023).?Modulating Effects of Reward and Punishment on Conflict Management in interindiviudal Response Conflicts.?Talk given at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg, Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2023).?Action Control Implications of Asymmetries in Joint Action.?Talk given at the Social Cognition?Colloquium of the University of Würzburg, Würzburg (DE).

• Fr?ber, K.* &?G?tz, F. J.*?(2022).?The Regensburg Solution.?Talk given at the 2nd Joint Conflict Network?Meeting at the University?of Tübingen, Tübingen (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2022).?Driven by intention or stimulus? The forces that drive leaders vs. followers in cooperative actions.?Talk given at the Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) Tuesday Seminar at Aarhus University, Aarhus (DK).

• G?tz, F. J. (2022).?The List-Wide Proportion Congruency Effect (LWPCE) in Interindividual Response Conflicts.?Talk given at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg, Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2021).?Two Projects on Interindividual Conflicts and their Modification in the Context of Asymmetrical Joint Actions.?Talk given at the Joint Conflict Network Kickoff Meeting at the University?of Tübingen, Tübingen (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2021).?Follow You, Follow Me? A Novel Paradigm to Study Interindividual Response Conflicts.?Talk given at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg, Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2021). Follow You, Follow Me? A Novel Paradigm to Study Interindividual Response Conflicts in the Lab and Online. Talk given at the Action Control Colloquium at Eberhard-Karls-Universit?t, Tübingen (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2019). Measuring Social Interaction in the Context of Charismatic Authority. Talk given at Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2019). Social Cueing of Numerical Magnitude. Talk given at Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t, Freiburg im Breisgau (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2018). Under the Spell of Authority: Adaption of a Bug-Killing Paradigm for the Study of Obedience to Authority. Talk given at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2017). Effects of Social Cueing on Number Processing. Talk given at University of Potsdam, Potsdam (DE).

• G?tz, F. J. (2016). Autonomy, level of action identification and asymmetric joint action. Talk given at Central European University (CEU), Budapest (HU).

Conference presentations (first autorship only)

• G?tz, F. J.?& Dreisbach, G. (2024).?Interacting with a Human But Not the Computer Motivates Conflict Adaptation in Interindividual Response Conflicts.?Poster presented at “66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Regensburg (DE). [poster]

• G?tz, F. J.?& Dreisbach, G. (2023).?Interacting with a Human But Not the Computer Motivates Conflict Adaptation in Interindividual Response Conflicts.?Poster presented at “9th Joint Action Meeting (JAM)", Budapest (HU). [poster]

• G?tz, F. J.?& Dreisbach, G. (2023).?Follower's Reliability Modulates Leader's Goal Persistence in a Novel Joint Goal-Setting Paradigm.?Poster presented at “9th Joint Action Meeting (JAM)", Budapest (HU). [poster]

• G?tz, F. J.?& Dreisbach, G. (2023). Follow My Lead! Modulation of Goal Persistence by a Co-Actor's Reliability in?a Joint Goal-Setting Paradigm.?Talk given at “65th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Trier (DE). [talk]

• G?tz, F. J., Fr?ber, K.,?& Dreisbach, G. (2022). Follow My Lead! Influence of Follower's Reliability on Leader's Goal Persistence in a Joint Goal-Setting Paradigm.?Poster presented at “64th?Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Cologne (DE). [poster]

• G?tz, F. J., & Dreisbach, G. (2021). Follow you or follow me? A novel paradigm to study interindividual response conflicts.?Talk given at “63rd?Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Ulm (DE). [talk]

• G?tz, F. J., & Krishna, A. (2020).?Motor Coordination Induces Social Identification: An Exploration into the link between Joint Action and Group Perception.?Talk given at “62nd Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Jena (DE). [talk]

• G?tz, F. J., & Eder, A. B. (2019). Free will vs. obedience: Establishing a new experimental paradigm for the study of Milgram-style Effects. Talk given at “17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section (FGSP)”, Cologne (DE). [talk]

• G?tz, F. J., & Eder, A. B. (2019). Adaption of a bug-killing paradigm for the study of obedience to authority. Poster presented at “8th Joint Action Meeting (JAM)”, Genova (IT). [poster]

• G?tz, F. J., & Eder, A. B. (2019). Obedience vs. free will: Adaption of a bug-killing paradigm for the study of obedience to authority. Talk given at “61st Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, London (GB). [talk]

• G?tz, F. J., B?ckler, A& Eder, A. B. (2018). Head Cueing of Numerical Cognition. Talk given at “20^th ESCON Conference”, Cologne (DE). [talk]

• G?tz, F. J., B?ckler, A., Heineck, P. M., & Eder, A. B. (2018). Effects of vertical head orientation on spatial attention. Talk given at “60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Marburg (DE). [talk]

• Goetz, F. J., K?rner, A., & Vesper, C. (2017). Producing music vs. pressing keys together - representing joint action goals. Poster presented at “7th Joint Action Meeting (JAM)”, London (GB). [poster]

• Goetz, F. J., K?rner, A., F?rster, G., & Strack, S. (2017). Autonomy and Level of Action Identification. Talk given at “59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Dresden (DE). [talk]

• Goetz, F. J., Eder, A. B., B?ckler, A., & Strack, F. (2016). Face cueing effects in a personalized anchoring paradigm. Talk given at “50th Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs)”, Leipzig (DE). [talk]

• Goetz, F. J., Eder, A. B., Strack, F., B?ckler, A., & Heineck, P. M. (2016). Face cueing effects in a personalized anchoring paradigm?. Talk given at “58th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Heidelberg (DE). [talk]

• Goetz, F. J. (2015). Big Brother is Watching Me – Mechanisms and Functions of Intimidation. Talk given at “12th PhD Workshop of the German Psychological Society’s (DGps) Social Psychology Section”, Münster (DE).
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• Goetz, F. J., & Markel, P. (2014). Hide or Seek! A regulatory focus approach to the behavioral consequences of institutional intimidation. Poster presented at “17^th EASP General Meeting”, Amsterdam (NL). [poster]

  Goetz, F. J., & Markel, P. (2014). Hide or Seek! A regulatory focus approach to the behavioral consequences of institutional intimidation. Poster presented at “56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Gie?en (DE). [poster]

I am active on X (@FelixJGoetz) and researchgate (Felix J. G?tz).

Some of my work has been featured in the media and on podcasts (mostly in German). Here are a few examples.

Radio and TV Interviews

• TV documentary about authority and obedience, reference to the obedience publication (G?tz et al., 2023) and interview about?obedience (by Jasmina Neudecker), ZDF Terra Xplore, date of broadcast TBA.
• Radio documentary about fan culture,?reference to and short interview about the publication on motor coordination and social identification (Krishna & G?tz, 2024), Deutschlandfunk Systemfragen, 06.06.2024,?https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/fussball-filmstars-musik-wann-werden-wir-eigentlich-zu-fans-dlf-e732b9cf-100.html
• Radio documentary about obedience,?reference to and short interview about the obedience publication (G?tz et al., 2023), SWR2 Wissen,?07.03.2024,?https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/gehorsam-sein-warum-wir-uns-unterordnen-swr2-wissen-2024-03-07-104.html?
• Radio program about the obedience publication (G?tz et al., 2023),?SWR?Wissen,?02.08.2024,?https://www.swr.de/wissen/wie-gehorsam-sind-menschen-100.html
• Radio program about the obedience publication (G?tz et al., 2023),?BR Wissen kompakt, 24.07.2023

Podcast Coverage

• Popular science podcast coverage of the obedience publication (G?tz et al., 2023), 03.09.2023,?https://ist-das-information-oder-kann-das-weg.blogs.audiorella.com/19-new-episode
• Science podcast coverage of the obedience publication?(G?tz et al., 2023), methodisch inkorrekt!, 08.08.2023,?https://minkorrekt.de/mi262-spionagepflanze/

Media Coverage

• https://phys.org/news/2024-05-movement-strong-togetherness.html
• https://neurosciencenews.com/moral-obedience-free-will-23669/
• https://neurosciencenews.com/web-stories/obedience-authority-psychology-222/
• https://www.wissenschaft.de/gesellschaft-psychologie/zwischen-gehorsam-und-moral/
• https://www.welt.de/gesundheit/plus246660032/Psychologie-Die-Testpersonen-toeteten-in-hohem-Masse-auf-Befehl.html
• https://www.mdr.de/wissen/studie-zu-milgram-experiment-mit-tieren-100.html