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Cornelia Betsch 🖖
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http://www.pace-studie.de & http://www.cosmo-studie.de project lead, Prof of Health Comm http://pidi-lab.de @BNITM_de @unierfurt & Director @ipb_erfurt
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leonhardreiter.bsky.social
📢 New SysRev + Meta-Analysis out in Health Psychology Review!
Together with the amazing Martin Voracek, @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & @robertboehm.bsky.social

Do messages about herd immunity increase or decrease vaccination motivation? 🤔
Read more to find out! 🧵
OA: doi.org/10.1080/1743...
Emphasising herd immunity in vaccine advocacy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Emphasising herd immunity in vaccine communication may affect vaccine uptake by eliciting prosocial or selfish motivations. While experimental evidence has accumulated, quantitative syntheses are l...
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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ipb.bsky.social
📖 Die neue Ausgabe des #Bundesgesundheitsblatts @springernature.com widmet sich #BCI. Sie richtet sich vor allem an Fachleute im Gesundheitswesen 👩‍⚕️👨‍🔬 & liefert fundierte Infos zu Forschung & Gesundheitsschutz. Mitkoordiniiert wurde sie u.a. von @corneliabetsch.bsky.social @unierfurt.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
congrats @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social ! #applynow
robertboehm.bsky.social Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Aug 30
Exciting and innovative project on an important topic with an outstanding supervisor. Consider applying!
wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Aug 26
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...
August 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
Das war ein großer Spass! Fast einen ganzen Tag Ideen zu Fragen der planetaren Gesundheit gewälzt - DANKE ❤️ Markus Reichstein @ellisunitjena.bsky.social und Team, @robertboehm.bsky.social und Geko Team des @ipb.bsky.social

#planetaryhealth #behavioralscience #climate #health #sciencebsky
August 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
More than happy to have the wonderful @robertboehm.bsky.social with us. Fun will now commence! 🖖 Welcome, dear Robert ❤️ www.uni-erfurt.de/institute-fo...
August 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social
📢 New commentary out today in Nature Human Behaviour!
We argue that behavior change interventions often suffer from a one-sided success focus. But failures may reveal structural barriers people face.

🔗 rdcu.be/ex8hR

#BehavioralScience #PublicPolicy
Comment: Rethinking behavior change interventions in policymaking
July 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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lewan.bsky.social
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
sks.to
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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sanderlab.bsky.social
I would never have thought that academia and science would be the first to bend their knees.
usha.bsky.social Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · Feb 21
SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...
National Academies is altering pending reports to appease Trump administration, some members say
Words such as “health equity” are being replacing with vaguer terms, and 100 members sent a letter of protest to NASEM leaders.
www.statnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
#DefendResearch Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist ein hohes Gut. In den USA ist sie stark unter Druck. Hier rufen US-Wissenschaftler*innen die wissenschaftliche community dazu auf, gemeinsam mit ihnen Widerstand zu leisten tinyurl.com/2dyadwzr #resistanceisneverfutile
February 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
Ihre schwarze Seele haben Titanen einst auf dem Planeten Vagra II hinterlassen und damit ein neues, dunkles Lebewesen erschaffen - eine Haut aus Bösem, die Skin of Evil. Genau dort durfte ich Simon und Sebastian von meinem Lieblingspodcast Trek am Dienstag treffen.
trekamdienstag.de/2025/02/20/t...
Trek Nights #40: Connie und die schwarze Seele ⋆ Trek am Dienstag - Star Trek Podcast
Episode herunterladen (MP3, 59 MB) Cornelia Betsch in ihrer Funktion als Direktorin des Institute for Planetary Behaviour forscht an klimagesundem Verhalten – wie man Rahmenbedingungen dazu schafft, w...
trekamdienstag.de
February 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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ipb.bsky.social
#InDenMedien Unser Mitglied Lars Korn, Forscher am BNITM, hat jetzt mit @kathrinkuehn.bsky.social vom Deutschlandfunk in "Forschung aktuell" über Impfskepsis gesprochen. Doch welche Maßnahmen erhöhen die Impfbereitschaft? Jetzt reinhören👇 @unierfurt.bsky.social
Impfskepsis: Welche Maßnahmen erhöhen die Impfbereitschaft?
Masern- und Keuchhustenfälle steigen in den USA, die Impfbereitschaft sinkt. Forscher Korn sieht fehlendes Vertrauen und geringe Risikowahrnehmung als Ursachen.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
January 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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ipb.bsky.social
Das wird richtig spannend und dementsprechend groß ist auch bereits der Andrang!
ipb.bsky.social Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour @ipb.bsky.social · Jan 23
#SaveTheDate Das Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour (IPB) lädt herzlich ein zum 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗵𝗹𝘀𝗽𝗲𝘇𝗶𝗮𝗹, einer spannenden Diskussion über Demokratie, politische Teilhabe und wie Bürger:innen aktiv zum Klimaschutz beitragen können.🗳️ @unierfurt.bsky.social 👉 www.uni-erfurt.de/institute-fo...
Climate Connect Spezial: Mehr Bürgerbeteiligung für eine stärkere Demokratie?
Veranstaltung mit Kathrin Schlup (Senior Projektleiterin und ehemalige Co-Direktorin sanu ag, Schweiz) im Rahmen der Reihe "Climate Connect".
www.uni-erfurt.de
January 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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stefanherzog.bsky.social
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#BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science

New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology.
PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025

For more: scienceofboosting.org

@arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social

@annualreviews.bsky.social
#policy #behavioralscience

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The image is the cover page of an article from the "Annual Review of Psychology" titled "Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science" by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig. It features a brief abstract, keywords, and publication details. The abstract outlines the concept of "boosting" as a behavioral public policy that emphasizes empowering individuals to make informed decisions, in contrast to "nudging," which subtly steers behavior. The abstract reads: Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it does not promote agency and relies on benevolent choice architects), other behavioral policy approaches focus on empowering citizens. Here we review boosting, a behavioral policy approach that aims to foster people's agency, self-control, and ability to make informed decisions. It is grounded in evidence from behavioral science showing that human decision making is not as notoriously flawed as the nudging approach assumes. We argue that addressing the challenges of our time—such as climate change, pandemics, and the threats to liberal democracies and human autonomy posed by digital technologies and choice architectures—calls for fostering capable and engaged citizens as a first line of response to complement slower, systemic approaches. List with summary points: 1. Behavioral public policy garnered widespread attention with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. 2. Criticisms of nudging include that it does not promote agency and competences and that it relies—overly optimistically—on the presence of benevolent choice architects. 3. The proliferation of environments threatening people's autonomy, the slow pace of systemic approaches to tackling societal issues, and the intrinsic benefits of empowerment make empowering citizens an indispensable objective of behavioral public policy. 4. Boosting is a behavioral public policy approach to empowerment grounded in evidence from behavioral science that shows that humans’ boundedly rational decision making is not as flawed as the nudging approach assumes. 5. Boosts are interventions that improve people's competencies to make informed choices that conform to their goals, preferences, and desires. 6. In self-nudging boosts, people learn to use architectural changes in their proximate choice environment to regulate their own behavior—that is, they are empowered to adapt their own choice environments. 7. There are boosts to foster core competences in many domains, including finance, online environments, and health, as well as broader, overarching areas, such as motivation, risk, and judgment and decision making. Boosts should be part of a policy mix that also includes system-level approaches. 8. When implementing boosts, policy makers need to avoid the trap of individualizing responsibility and to be mindful that, due to differences in cognition and motivation, inequalities in the desirable effects across boosted individuals may emerge.
January 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
Heute Sitzung des Deutschen Ethikrats mit öffentlichem Teil - wir stellen 5 potenzielle Stellungnahmethemen vor. Herzliche Einladung: www.ethikrat.org/veranstaltun... Pflege - Schwangerschaft - Neurotechnologie - Freiheit & Verantwortung - Lebensende
Themenauswahl für Stellungnahmen
www.ethikrat.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
Größte Vorfreude! Kommt, lasst uns über Zukunft reden! Mit Sebastian Göttling und Simon Fistrich, den wunderbaren Hosts von trekamdienstag.de Podcast 🖖 Morgen an Nikolaus ein Stündchen zur Mittagszeit, 13 Uhr hier: uni-erfurt.webex.com/uni-erfurt/j...
December 5, 2024 at 4:56 PM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
Heiße Empfehlung - @robertboehm.bsky.social sucht Doktorand*innen. Eine fantastische Arbeitsgruppe mit dem hellsten Kopf und großem Drive. Gesellschaftlich immer am Puls der Zeit und richtig gute Forschung. Bewerben! Und bitte weitersagen!
robertboehm.bsky.social Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Jun 5
🚨 WE ARE HIRING! 🚨 Looking for two PhD candidates to join the Social and Economic Psychology group (social-econ-psych.univie.ac.at) at the University of Vienna. t.co/nXif41brr1 Please share. 🧵👇 for more information (1/4).
University assistant (Praedoc)
University assistant (Praedoc)
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June 6, 2024 at 6:56 AM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
Forschung ist Weltoffenheit! "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch that illuminates the world." (Pasteur). Mit Tausenden anderen setzen wir daher ein sichtbares Zeichen: Für die Demokratie thueringen-weltoffen.de
ipb.bsky.social Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour @ipb.bsky.social · Jan 25
Im Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour ist es uns eine Herzensangelegenheit, die Initiative Weltoffenes Thüringen zu unterstützen! thueringen-weltoffen.de

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch that illuminates the world."
Pasteur
January 25, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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ewyler.bsky.social
Corona-Pandemie, Erinnerung und Aufarbeitung – sehr interessante Studie mit Umfragen in 11 Ländern.
- Kurze Zusammenfassung: www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/d...
- Sehr lesenswerte Betrachtung, auch über die Pandemie hinaus: www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
- Studie selber: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Aufarbeitung der Corona-Pandemie: Das Virus in den Köpfen
Eine Studie zeigt, dass viele die Pandemiemaßnahmen für reine Gängelung halten. Aber auch die Gegenseite erinnert sich falsch. Das ist eine Gefahr für die Zukunft.
www.zeit.de
November 2, 2023 at 10:09 AM
corneliabetsch.bsky.social
In der Pandemie wurde Gesundheitsverhalten wie Impfen oder Nicht-Impfen für viele zum Teil ihrer Identität. Daraus entstehen Konflikte, die bis heute andauern. Unser neues Paper in Nature zeigt, wie unser aller Nachdenken über die Pandemie verzerrt ist nature.com/articles/s41...
November 2, 2023 at 10:10 AM
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robertboehm.bsky.social
We are hiring! Looking for a new colleague (and my office neighbor) to become PROFESSOR (FULL) OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna. Please repost & share with potentially interested colleagues. shorturl.at/biyNT Vienna rocks! @univie.ac.at
November 1, 2023 at 1:59 AM