Dr. Felix Johannes Götz

• 2019, Promotion in Psychologie, Universität Würzburg (DE)
• 2013, Diplom in Psychologie, Universität Würzburg (DE)
• 2011, Praktikant im Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakau (PL)
• 2010/2011, Austauschstudent, Universität Salamanca (ES)

• 2019–heute, Postdoktorand, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Psychologie II (Cognitive Control Lab, Gesine Dreisbach), Universität Regensburg (DE)
• 08/2022–09/2022, Forschungsaufenthalt am Interacting Minds Centre (Cordula Vesper), Aarhus University (DK)
• 2015–2019, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Psychologie II (Motivation and Emotion in Action Lab, Andreas Eder), Universität Würzburg (DE)
• 10/2016–12/2016, Forschungsaufenthalt am Department of Cognitive Science (Social Mind and Body Group, Natalie Sebanz & Günther Knoblich), Central European University (CEU), Budapest (HU)
• 2013–2015, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrstuhl für Sozialpsychologie (Social Cognition Lab, Fritz Strack), Universität Würzburg (DE)

• 2024/2025, sieben Monate (*2024, zweites Kind)
• 2022/2023, sieben Monate (*2022, erstes Kind)

• 2025/2026, EASP-Förderung für das Small-Group-Meeting „Obedience to Authority: Milgram’s Legacy and Emerging Directions“ in Regensburg (9.–11. September 2026).
• 2020–2025, DFG-Wissenschafsnetzwerk „The many faces of conflict – Towards an integrative framework for conflict regulation“ (Netzwerkmitglied; Sprecher*innen: David Dignath & Daniela Becker; Projektnummer 454468927).
• 2018–2019, Mitarbeit an zwei Workshops zu „Charismatic Authority“ am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) der Universität Bielefeld (DE), kofinanziert durch die DFG (Sprecher:innen: Cordula Vesper & Adrian Hermann).
  • 2018, „Charismatic Authority: Exploring Religion and Embodied Social Interaction in Cognitive and Cultural Studies“
  • 2019, „Measuring Charismatic Expression: Towards an Integrated Perspective from Cultural and Cognitive Studies“
• 2015–2018, Promotionsstipendium („Begabtenförderung“), gemeinsam gefördert durch eine deutsche politische Stiftung und das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF).

• Soziale Kognition und Sozialpsychologie, Allgemeine Psychologie (Handlungskontrolle), Experimentelle Psychologie.
• Genauer: Asymmetric gemeinsame Handlungen, Konfliktverarbeitung und kognitive Kontrolle, soziale Identifikation, Gehorsam (gegenüber Autorität).

Zentrale Publikationen

• Krishna, A.* & Götz, 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.
• Götz, 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

Alle Publikationen

• Götz, F.J. & Dreisbach, G. (2025). How a co-actor’s (Un-) reliability modulates goal selection in a novel joint goal-setting paradigm. Psychological Research, 89(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-024-02056-2   
• Becker, D., Bijleveld, E., Braem, S. , Fröber, K., Götz, F. J., Kleiman, T., Körner, 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.* & Götz, 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.
• Körner, A., Götz, 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
• Götz, 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
• Götz, F. J., Böckler, 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

• Götz, F. J., & Rennert, J. (im Druck). Die Psychologie des Gehorsams: Von autoritärer Persönlichkeit zu widerwilliger Kooperation [Psychology of Obedience: From Authoritarian Personality to Reluctant Cooperation]. In D. Burkard & S. Pongratz (Hrsg.), Proceedings der Tagung Verweigerter Gehorsam in religiösen Diskursen: Fokussierungen vom Mittelalter bis in die Neuzeit (Würzburg: [Verlag]).

• Götz, F. J. (2019). Social Cueing of Numerical Magnitude (Dissertationsschrift). OPUS Würzburg. https://doi.org/10.25972/OPUS-18716 

• Fröber, K., Abel, M., Bäuml, K.-H., Dreisbach, G., Kliegl, O., Köster, M., Lingnau, A., Volberg, G., & Götz, F. J. (eds.). (2024). Abstracts of the 66th TeaP. [Conference object] TeaP Conference 2024, Regensburg, Germany.
• Fröber, K., Abel, M., Bäuml, K.-H., Dreisbach, G., Kliegl, O., Köster, M., Lingnau, A., Volberg, G., & Götz, F. J. (2024). Program of the 66th TeaP. [Conference object] TeaP Conference 2024, Regensburg, Germany. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.15180

• Götz, F. J. & Dreisbach, G. (2025). No Evidence for a Link Between Self-Prioritization and Cognitive Control in Perceptual Matching Judgments. Poster presented at “67th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)”, Frankfurt (DE). [poster]

• Götz, 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]

• Götz, 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]

• Götz, 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]

• Götz, 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]

• Götz, F. J., Fröber, 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]

• Götz, 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]

• Götz, 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]

• Götz, 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]

• Götz, 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]

• Götz, 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]

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

• Götz, F. J., Böckler, 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., Körner, 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., Körner, A., Förster, 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., Böckler, 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., Böckler, 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)”, Gießen (DE). [poster]

• Götz, F. J. (2025). Follow you or me? Response Conflicts Loom Larger when Triggered by a Human than a Computer Co-Actor. Talk presented at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg (Rico Fischer & Gesine Dreisbach), Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2025). Follow you or me? Response Conflicts Loom Larger when Triggered by a Human than a Computer Co-Actor. Talk presented at the Cognitive Control Colloquium of Washington University in St- Louis (Julie Bugg & Wouter Kool), St. Louis, Missouri (US).
• Götz, F. J. (2025). Psychologie des Gehorsams: Von autoritärer Persönlichkeit zu widerwilliger Kooperation [Psychology of Obedience: From Authoritarian Personality to Reluctant Cooperation]. Talk presented at the interdisciplinary conference Refused Obedience in Religious Discourses. Focuses from the Middle Ages to the Present (organized by Dominik Burkard), Würzburg (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2024). No Evidence for a Link Between Self-Prioritization and Cognitive Control in Perceptual Matching Judgments. Talk presented at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg (Rico Fischer & Gesine Dreisbach), Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2024). How a Co-Actor's (Un)Reliability Modulates Goal Selection in a Novel Joint Goal-Setting Paradigm. Talk presented at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg (Rico Fischer & Gesine Dreisbach), Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2023). Modulating Effects of Reward and Punishment on Conflict Management in interindiviudal Response Conflicts. Talk presented at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg (Rico Fischer & Gesine Dreisbach), Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2023). Action Control Implications of Asymmetries in Joint Action. Talk presented at the Social Cognition Colloquium of the University of Würzburg (Roland Deutsch, Andreas Eder, & Fritz Strack), Würzburg (DE).
• Fröber, K.* & Götz, F. J.* (2022). The Regensburg Solution. Talk presented at the 2nd Joint Conflict Network Meeting at the University of Tübingen (organized by David Dignath & Daniela Becker), Tübingen (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2022). Driven by intention or stimulus? The forces that drive leaders vs. followers in cooperative actions. Talk presented at the Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) Tuesday Seminar at Aarhus University (Cordula Vesper & Joshua C. Skewes), Aarhus (DK).
• Götz, F. J. (2022). The List-Wide Proportion Congruency Effect (LWPCE) in Interindividual Response Conflicts. Talk presented at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg (Rico Fischer & Gesine Dreisbach), Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2021). Two Projects on Interindividual Conflicts and their Modification in the Context of Asymmetrical Joint Actions. Talk presented at the Joint Conflict Network Kickoff Meeting at the University of Tübingen (organized by David Dignath & Daniela Becker), Tübingen (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2021). Follow You, Follow Me? A Novel Paradigm to Study Interindividual Response Conflicts. Talk presented at the Joint Cognitive Control Colloquium of the Universities of Greifswald and Regensburg (Rico Fischer & Gesine Dreisbach), Greifswald/Regensburg (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2021). Follow You, Follow Me? A Novel Paradigm to Study Interindividual Response Conflicts in the Lab and Online. Talk presented at the Action Control Colloquium at Eberhard-Karls-Universität (David Dignath), Tübingen (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2019). Measuring Social Interaction in the Context of Charismatic Authority. Talk presented at Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) (organized by Cordula Vesper & Adrian Hermann), University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2019). Social Cueing of Numerical Magnitude. Talk presented at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (David Dignath), Freiburg im Breisgau (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2018). Under the Spell of Authority: Adaption of a Bug-Killing Paradigm for the Study of Obedience to Authority. Talk presented at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) (organized by Adrian Hermann & Cordula Vesper), University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2017). Effects of Social Cueing on Number Processing. Talk presented at University of Potsdam (Martin Fischer), Potsdam (DE).
• Götz, F. J. (2016). Autonomy, level of action identification and asymmetric joint action. Talk presented at Central European University (CEU) (Natalie Sebanz & Günther Knoblich), Budapest (HU).

• WiSe: Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion I: Stimulus-Response-Kompatibilität
• WiSe: Experimentalpsychologisches Projektseminar (Expra) I
• SoSe: Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion II: Human Factors
• SoSe: Experimentalpsychologisches Projektseminar (Expra) II

• Bei Bedarf oder unterstützend: Forschungspraktikum (Fopra)

• Bachelorarbeiten / Bachelor theses
• Masterarbeiten / Master theses
• Praktika (im Rahmen des BSc- wie MSc-Studiums der Psychologie) / internships

Topics

• 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]
• Exploration of potential links between Self-Prioritization and Conflict Management in Perceptual Matching Judgments  [BSc theses]
• Sociomotor Action Control in the Joint Goal-Setting Paradigm [BSc/MSc theses]
• Automaticity of Number Processing in the Gestalt-SNARC paradigm [BSc theses]

Weiterführende Informationen zur Betreuung von Abschlussarbeiten finden Sie hier.

• European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
• German Psychological Society (DGPs)

• American Psychologist
• Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
• Cognitive Processing
• European Journal of Social Psychology
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
• PLOS ONE
• Psychological Research

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Einige meiner Arbeiten wurden in den Medien und in Podcasts (überwiegend auf Deutsch) aufgegriffen. Hier sind ausgewählte Beispiele.

• TV-Dokumentation zu Autorität und Gehorsam, die meine Forschung zu diesem Thema hervorhebt (Götz et al., 2023; Götz & Rennert, 2025), einschließlich eines Interviews mit mir, geführt von Jasmina Neudecker. Ausgestrahlt bei ZDF Terra Xplore am 12. Mai 2025. https://schule.zdf.de/video/wie-gehorsam-bist-du-102
• TV-Dokumentation zu Milgrams Studien, die meine Forschung zu Gehorsam hervorhebt (Götz et al., 2023; Götz & Rennert, 2025), einschließlich eines Interviews mit meiner Kollaborateurin Vanessa Mitschke. Ausgestrahlt bei ZDF Terra Xplore am 23. Januar 2025. https://www.zdf.de/play/explainer/brain-projects-historische-psychologische-experimente-und-behandlungen-100/milgram-experiment-wie-gehorsam-bist-du-102
• Radiodokumentation anlässlich des 40. Todestages von Stanley Milgram, die meine Forschung zu Gehorsam hervorhebt (Götz et al., 2023; Götz & Rennert, 2025), einschließlich eines Interviews mit mir, geführt von Ulrich Biermann. Ausgestrahlt bei WDR Zeitzeichen am 20. Dezember 2024. https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/stanley-milgrams-experiment-der-mann-der-die-welt-schockte-100-100.html
• Radiodokumentation zur Fankultur mit Verweis auf sowie kurzem Interview mit meinem Kollaborateur Anand Krishna zu unserer Publikation über motorische Koordination und soziale Identifikation (Krishna & Götz, 2024). Ausgestrahlt bei Deutschlandfunk Systemfragen am 6. Juni 2024. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/fussball-filmstars-musik-wann-werden-wir-eigentlich-zu-fans-dlf-e732b9cf-100.html
• Radiodokumentation zu Gehorsam mit Verweis auf sowie kurzem Interview zur Gehorsamspublikation (Götz et al., 2023). Ausgestrahlt bei SWR2 Wissen am 7. März 2024. https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/gehorsam-sein-warum-wir-uns-unterordnen-swr2-wissen-2024-03-07-104.html
• Radiobeitrag mit Fokus auf meine ursprüngliche Gehorsamspublikation (Götz et al., 2023). Ausgestrahlt bei SWR Wissen am 2. August 2024. https://www.swr.de/wissen/wie-gehorsam-sind-menschen-100.html
• Radiobeitrag mit Fokus auf meine ursprüngliche Gehorsamspublikation (Götz et al., 2023). Ausgestrahlt bei BR Wissen kompakt am 24. Juli 2023.

• Populärwissenschaftlicher Podcast, moderiert von Gerald Hüther und Robert Burdy, zu meiner ursprünglichen Gehorsamspublikation (Götz et al., 2023). Ausgestrahlt in „Ist das Information oder kann das weg?“ am 3. September 2023. https://ist-das-information-oder-kann-das-weg.blogs.audiorella.com/19-new-episode
• Populärwissenschaftlicher Podcast, moderiert von Nicolas Wöhrl und Reinhard Remfort, zu meiner ursprünglichen Gehorsamspublikation (Götz et al., 2023). Ausgestrahlt in „methodisch inkorrekt!“ am 8. August 2023. https://minkorrekt.de/mi262-spionagepflanze/

• 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