Marcel Pauly

I am generally interested in understanding how people perceive and react to different stimuli. I am currently investigating how self-relevant stimuli are processed cognitively, as other research findings suggest that the self-relevance of stimuli plays a special role in cognition. I mainly use reaction time experiments in my research.

Pauly, M., & Wentura, D. (2024). The “plus polar self”: A reinterpretation of the self-prioritization effect as a polarity correspondence effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001713

Pauly, M., Schäfer, S., Wentura, D. & Frings, C. (2024). The Self-Relevant Spotlight Metaphor: Self-Relevant Targets Diminish Distractor-Response-Binding Effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02455-x

Schäfer, S., Wentura, D., Pauly, M. & Frings, C. (2019). The natural egocenter: An experimental account of locating the self. Consciousness And Cognition, 74, 102775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.
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Pauly, M., Wentura, D. (2025, October). Polarity Correspondence and Prioritization Effects. Oral presentation at 57th Herbsttreffen der experimentellen Kognitionspsychologie (HExKoP), Trier, Germany.

Pauly, M., Wentura, D. (2025, March). Reinterpreting Self- and We-Prioritization: How Polarity Correspondence can account for Prioritization Effects. Poster presentation at 67th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Frankfurt, Germany.

Pauly, M., Wentura, D. (2024, June). Polarity Correspondence and Self-Prioritization. Oral presentation Talk at the 13th Doktorandenworkshop Allgemeine Psychologie (A-Dok), Heidelberg, Germany.

Pauly, M., Wentura, D. (2024, March). Can the Self-Prioritization Effect be reduced to the Polarity Correspondence Principle? Poster presentation at 66th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany.

Pauly, M., Frings, C., Wentura, D. (2023, September). Short-term binding of self-relevant stimuli in action-control. Oral presentation at the 23th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), Porto, Portugal.

Pauly, M., Frings, C., Wentura, D. (2022, September). Self-relevance in action control: Do self-relevant stimuli modulate stimulus-response bindings? Oral presentation at the Summer School HybridAct "Ideomotor Control in Real and Digital Worlds”, Hagen, Germany.

[Seminar/Übung] “Empirisches Projektmodul 1” (WS24/25, SoSe25, WS25/26)

[Seminar/Übung] “Computergestützte Datenanalyse 1” (WS25/26)

[Seminar/Übung] "Fortgeschrittene computergestützte Datenanalyse" (WS22/23, WS23/24, WS24/25)

[Seminar] "Forschungsspezifische Methoden und Evaluation - Erstellung von (Online-)Experimenten mit PsychoPy und PsychoJS" (SoSe23, SoSe24)

[Seminar/Projektarbeit] "Seminar der kognitiven Psychologie: Kognition & Emotion" (SoSe23)