What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Social psychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Cognitive science
Jens Förster focuses on Social psychology, Social cognition, Creativity, Regulatory focus theory and Information processing.
His Social psychology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Cognitive psychology, Cognitive style and Lexical decision task.
His work in the fields of Cognitive psychology, such as Similarity, intersects with other areas such as Categorization.
Jens Förster interconnects Memoria, Response bias and Creative problem-solving in the investigation of issues within Cognitive style.
His research investigates the connection between Social cognition and topics such as Mental representation that intersect with problems in Concept learning and Construal level theory.
His work deals with themes such as Social psychology, Assimilation and contrast effects, Recognition memory and Social comparison theory, which intersect with Information processing.
His most cited work include:
- The effects of promotion and prevention cues on creativity. (752 citations)
- Approach and avoidance strength during goal attainment : Regulatory focus and the goal looms larger effect (429 citations)
- Temporal Construal Effects on Abstract and Concrete Thinking: Consequences for Insight and Creative Cognition. (405 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Jens Förster spends much of his time researching Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Social cognition, Construal level theory and Regulatory focus theory.
His research integrates issues of Social perception, Information processing and Priming in his study of Social psychology.
His work in the fields of Cue-dependent forgetting overlaps with other areas such as Embodied cognition.
In his study, Set is inextricably linked to Lexical decision task, which falls within the broad field of Social cognition.
His Construal level theory research includes elements of Novelty, Interpersonal relationship and Cognitive style.
In the subject of general Creativity, his work in Convergent thinking is often linked to Analytic reasoning, thereby combining diverse domains of study.
He most often published in these fields:
- Social psychology (74.11%)
- Cognitive psychology (27.68%)
- Social cognition (22.32%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2016)?
- Social psychology (74.11%)
- Categorization (6.25%)
- Novelty (7.14%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His main research concerns Social psychology, Categorization, Novelty, Creativity and Romance.
Jens Förster combines subjects such as Cognitive bias and Social perception with his study of Social psychology.
His Novelty research incorporates themes from Cognitive psychology and Priming.
His Priming research incorporates elements of Creativity technique, Convergent thinking, Divergent thinking and Subliminal stimuli.
The Creativity study combines topics in areas such as Personality and Social cognition.
In his research, Preference and Mood is intimately related to Active listening, which falls under the overarching field of Affect.
Between 2011 and 2016, his most popular works were:
- Seeing women as objects: The sexual body part recognition bias (83 citations)
- GLOMOsys The How and Why of Global and Local Processing (62 citations)
- Sense creative! The impact of global and local vision, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling on creative and analytic thought (22 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Social psychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Cognitive science
His primary scientific interests are in Social psychology, Categorization, Automaticity, Goal pursuit and Dysfunctional family.
His Social psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Preference and Active listening.
Throughout his Categorization studies, he incorporates elements of other sciences such as Encoding, Communication, Meaning, Cognitive science and Priming.
His Automaticity study frequently intersects with other fields, such as Cognitive psychology.
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