Rico Fischer

Biographic Data

ID5761746
NAMERico Fischer
GIVEN NAMESRico
FAMILY NAMEFischer
SIGNATUREFISCHER R
AFFILIATIONSHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
ORCID0000-0002-7142-1756
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Is multitasking efficient? Different metrics, different conclusions

    Open AccessAmelie C Jung, Markus Janczyk et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2026

    Multitasking—defined as the more or less overlapping execution of two or more tasks—has been shown to impair performance and induce performance costs. Nevertheless, individuals frequently engage in multitasking for private and work-related purposes. This raises the question: Do subjective impressions about multitasking efficiency diverge from objective measures, or can multitasking indeed comprise benefits in certain conditions? While previous as…

  • When meaning doesn’t matter, but location does

    Open AccessAldo Sommer, Roman Liepelt et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2025

    Studies have shown that variations in stimulus-hand proximity alter conflict processing. Stimulus-response (S-R) conflict in visuo- and auditory Simon tasks increases when response hands are placed close (proximal) to the stimulus compared to when they are placed far (distal) from the stimulus. Conversely, a stimulus-stimulus (S-S) conflict in a classical visual Stroop paradigm was reduced in a proximal compared to a distal stimulus-hand conditio…

  • Men’s weekly household labor and relationship quality during Covid-19 in Canada and Germany

    M D Johnson, Rico Fischer et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Men & Masculinity2024Cited by: 1

  • When a smile is still a conflict

    Open AccessRuth Huber, Robert Huber et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2023

    Facial expressions play a crucial role in human interactions. Typically, a positive (negative) expression evokes a congruent positive (negative) reaction within the observer. This congruent behavior is inverted, however, when the same positive (negative) expression is displayed by an outgroup member. Two approaches provide an explanation for this phenomenon. The social intentions account proposes underlying social messages within the facial displ…

  • No reduction of between-task interference in a dual-task with a repeating sequence of SOAs

    Open AccessEva Röttger, Markus Janczyk et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2021

    A frequent observation in dual-tasking is that spatially or conceptually (in)compatible Task 2 response features can interfere with responses in Task 1 (backward crosstalk effect; BCE). Such between-task interference is, at least to some degree, under strategic control. It has been shown that the size of the BCE can be modulated by instructions, contextual regularities, recent experience of conflict, and motivational factors. Especially large tem…

  • Two types of between-task conflict trigger respective processing adjustments within one dual-task

    Open AccessDevu Mahesan, Markus Janczyk et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2021

    In dual tasking, two different kinds of between-task conflict occur. Because in both cases, Task 2 characteristics affect Task 1 performance, they are commonly referred to as backward crosstalk effects (BCE): One with a conflict at the response selection stage when Task 1 and Task 2 have dimensional overlap (the compatibility-based BCE) and one with a conflict at the motor execution stage when response inhibition resulting from a Task 2 no-go-tri…

  • Challenges to aboveground biomass prediction from waveform lidar

    Open AccessJamis M Bruening, Rico Fischer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Accurate accounting of aboveground biomass density (AGBD) is crucial for carbon cycle, biodiversity, and climate change science. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), which maps global AGBD from waveform lidar, is the first of a new generation of Earth observation missions designed to improve carbon accounting. This paper explores the possibility that lidar waveforms may not be unique to AGBD—that forest stands with different AGBD m…

  • Prediction of forest parameters and carbon accounting under different fire regimes in Miombo woodlands, Niassa Special Reserve, Northern Mozambique

    Open AccessNatasha Ribeiro, N S Ribeiro et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2021References: 5

  • Aftereffects and deactivation of completed prospective memory intentions

    Open AccessMarcus Möschl, Rico Fischer et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2020

    Prospective memory, the ability to perform an intended action in the future, is an essential aspect of goal-directed behavior. Intentions influence our behavior and shape the way we process and interact with our environment. One important question for research on prospective memory and goal-directed behavior is whether this influence stops after the intention has been completed successfully. Are intention representations deactivated from memory a…

  • Gap models and their individual-based relatives in the assessment of the consequences of global change

    Open AccessHerman H Shugart, Bin Wang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Individual-based models (IBMs) of complex systems emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s, across diverse disciplines from astronomy to zoology. Ecological IBMs arose with seemingly independent origins out of the tradition of understanding the ecosystems dynamics of ecosystems from a ‘bottom-up’ accounting of the interactions of the parts. Individual trees are principal among the parts of forests. Because these models are computationally demanding, …

  • The importance of forest structure for carbon fluxes of the Amazon rainforest

    Open AccessEdna Rödig, Matthias Cuntz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Precise descriptions of forest productivity, biomass, and structure are essential for understanding ecosystem responses to climatic and anthropogenic changes. However, relations between these components are complex, in particular for tropical forests

  • Individual Differences in the Context‐Dependent Recruitment of Cognitive Control

    Open AccessRico Fischer, Franziska Plessow et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2015

    The ability to flexibly adapt to deviations from optimal performance is an important aspect of self‐control. In the present study, the authors present first evidence that the personality trait action versus state orientation ( K uhl, 2000) modulates the ability of adaptive control adjustments in response to experienced conflicts. Sixty‐two German individuals with extreme scores on the action‐state dimension performed a response interference task,…

  • The impact of teacher–child relationships on child cognitive performance as explored by a priming paradigm

    Laurel Ahnert, Lieselotte Ahnert et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2013Cited by: 7References: 4

    The present study involved 120 kindergartners, of whom n = 60 were followed up to first grade. Upon making inquiries regarding closeness in teacher-child relationships in the classrooms, the children participated in a laboratory situation in which they were exposed to computerized tasks. These tasks challenged the cognitive processes thought to govern basic knowledge and belief systems. Before each task commenced, however, the image of the child'…