Robert Böhm
@robertboehm.bsky.social
Behavioral scientist studying judgment and decision making in response to societal challenges; robertboehm.info; Professor @univie.ac.at & @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social; Director https://whocc-sabrar.univie.ac.at; Co-director https://health.univie.ac.at/en/
We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We're hiring! @univie.ac.at is seeking a TT Assistant Professor in the Psychology of Digitalization. If your work is about automation, AI, or immersive technology (e.g., VR) in the context of work and organizations (broadly defined), we’d love to hear from you. 👇
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Meilenstein: Die Universität Wien ist erstmals unter den Top 100 im World University Ranking von @timeshighered.bsky.social - auf Platz 95! 🥳 Das stärkt Sichtbarkeit & internationale Vernetzung exzellenter Forschender und Studierender weltweit. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Meilenstein: Die Universität Wien ist erstmals unter den Top 100 im World University Ranking von @timeshighered.bsky.social - auf Platz 95! 🥳 Das stärkt Sichtbarkeit & internationale Vernetzung exzellenter Forschender und Studierender weltweit. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
It was a pleasure to provide a keynote talk at this week‘s #ECTMIH conference in #Hamburg. I learned about great research to improve health and had fun with my friends and colleagues @miroslavsirota.bsky.social and @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & her team.
October 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It was a pleasure to provide a keynote talk at this week‘s #ECTMIH conference in #Hamburg. I learned about great research to improve health and had fun with my friends and colleagues @miroslavsirota.bsky.social and @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & her team.
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🌍 Vom 29.9.–2.10. sind IPB-Mitglieder bei der #ECTMIH2025 in Hamburg mit Forschung zu Impfverhalten, AMR & Risikokommunikation 📊
🎙️ Keynote von IPB-Fellow @robertboehm.bsky.social „Transforming Health and Climate Communication Through Digital Innovation“
@unierfurt.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social
🎙️ Keynote von IPB-Fellow @robertboehm.bsky.social „Transforming Health and Climate Communication Through Digital Innovation“
@unierfurt.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🌍 Vom 29.9.–2.10. sind IPB-Mitglieder bei der #ECTMIH2025 in Hamburg mit Forschung zu Impfverhalten, AMR & Risikokommunikation 📊
🎙️ Keynote von IPB-Fellow @robertboehm.bsky.social „Transforming Health and Climate Communication Through Digital Innovation“
@unierfurt.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social
🎙️ Keynote von IPB-Fellow @robertboehm.bsky.social „Transforming Health and Climate Communication Through Digital Innovation“
@unierfurt.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social
My PhD student @qinyuxiao.bsky.social has written a wonderful tribute to Gary Bornstein’s influential paper on team games (doi.org/10.1207/S153...) — a paper that remains as relevant today as it was over 20 years ago. You can read Qinyu’s short piece here: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions - Nature Reviews Psychology
Nature Reviews Psychology - The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My PhD student @qinyuxiao.bsky.social has written a wonderful tribute to Gary Bornstein’s influential paper on team games (doi.org/10.1207/S153...) — a paper that remains as relevant today as it was over 20 years ago. You can read Qinyu’s short piece here: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
This rigorous and fully transparent meta-analysis on the impact of herd immunity communication on vaccination intentions and behavior is based on @leonhardreiter.bsky.social's master’s thesis. Couldn’t be prouder of him. ❤️
📢 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...
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 8:02 AM
This rigorous and fully transparent meta-analysis on the impact of herd immunity communication on vaccination intentions and behavior is based on @leonhardreiter.bsky.social's master’s thesis. Couldn’t be prouder of him. ❤️
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Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
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Tomorrow at 5pm UTC Python: The Documentary produced by @cultrepo.bsky.social premieres on YouTube! 🎬🐍
From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
Python: The Documentary | An origin story
This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's future wasn't certain; at one point it almost disappeared. This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything. Thanks to our sponsors for making this documentary possible: Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/ @AnacondaInc. Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ @Dropbox Meta: https://opensource.fb.com/ @FacebookOpenSource OpenTeams: https://openteams.com/ @openteams PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ @PyCharmIDE Quansight: https://quansight.com/ @quansight And to all the amazing people who are featured: Armin Ronacher, Barry Warsaw, Benjamin Peterson, Brett Cannon, Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, Lisa Guo, Lisa Roach, Mariatta Wijaya, Paul...
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Tomorrow at 5pm UTC Python: The Documentary produced by @cultrepo.bsky.social premieres on YouTube! 🎬🐍
From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
Exciting and innovative project on an important topic with an outstanding supervisor. Consider applying!
🚨 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...
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...
Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
August 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Exciting and innovative project on an important topic with an outstanding supervisor. Consider applying!
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New paper on reciprocal relations between pandemic fatigue and protective behavior accepted for publication in Health Psychology, together with Maie Stein, @cortrudolph.bsky.social, @robertboehm.bsky.social
Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
Open access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
Open access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Reciprocal Within-Person Relations Between Pandemic Fatigue and Protective Behavior: A 20-Wave Longitudinal Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic
PDF | Objective: During the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns emerged that pandemic fatigue might undermine people’s adherence to recommended protective... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
www.researchgate.net
August 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
New paper on reciprocal relations between pandemic fatigue and protective behavior accepted for publication in Health Psychology, together with Maie Stein, @cortrudolph.bsky.social, @robertboehm.bsky.social
Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
Open access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
Open access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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I had an interesting 2nd day at #ICBM2025 in Vienna today. In our session, I presented our work on communicating about #AMR and pudent antibiotic use when new antibiotics are developed.
Please visit @abc-network.bsky.social if you are interested in the emerging field of behavioral research and AMR.
Please visit @abc-network.bsky.social if you are interested in the emerging field of behavioral research and AMR.
August 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I had an interesting 2nd day at #ICBM2025 in Vienna today. In our session, I presented our work on communicating about #AMR and pudent antibiotic use when new antibiotics are developed.
Please visit @abc-network.bsky.social if you are interested in the emerging field of behavioral research and AMR.
Please visit @abc-network.bsky.social if you are interested in the emerging field of behavioral research and AMR.
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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
#planetaryhealth #behavioralscience #climate #health #sciencebsky
August 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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
#planetaryhealth #behavioralscience #climate #health #sciencebsky
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "An approach to capturing the cultural contexts of health behaviours" together with Veerle Snijders, Katrine Bach Habersaat, Edward Fischer, Felicity Thomas, @julieleask.bsky.social, Martha Scherzer, Alona Mazhnaia & Nils Fietje. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An approach to capturing the cultural contexts of health behaviours - Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
This paper explores the relationship between cultural contexts and health behaviours, emphasising the need for a comprehensive understanding of cultural influences and acknowledging the limitations of...
link.springer.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "An approach to capturing the cultural contexts of health behaviours" together with Veerle Snijders, Katrine Bach Habersaat, Edward Fischer, Felicity Thomas, @julieleask.bsky.social, Martha Scherzer, Alona Mazhnaia & Nils Fietje. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thrilled to be visiting @unierfurt.bsky.social in the next two weeks as an @ipb.bsky.social fellow! I'm eager to catch up with longtime colleagues and friends like @corneliabetsch.bsky.social and excited to meet new people, share ideas, and build fresh connections.
August 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Thrilled to be visiting @unierfurt.bsky.social in the next two weeks as an @ipb.bsky.social fellow! I'm eager to catch up with longtime colleagues and friends like @corneliabetsch.bsky.social and excited to meet new people, share ideas, and build fresh connections.
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What does the social fabric of an entire country look like?
We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data.
Here’s what we found 👇
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#NetworkScience #Sociology
What does the social fabric of an entire country look like?
We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data.
Here’s what we found 👇
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#NetworkScience #Sociology
Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics
doi.org
July 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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What does the social fabric of an entire country look like?
We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data.
Here’s what we found 👇
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#NetworkScience #Sociology
What does the social fabric of an entire country look like?
We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data.
Here’s what we found 👇
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#NetworkScience #Sociology
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🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts?
… probably not, right?
In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z
Summary👇
… probably not, right?
In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z
Summary👇
Generalizability of choice architecture interventions
Nature Reviews Psychology - Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this...
rdcu.be
July 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts?
… probably not, right?
In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z
Summary👇
… probably not, right?
In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z
Summary👇
It was a real pleasure to engage in discussion with this outstanding team of co-authors on how individual- and system-level policies can inform one another to create a truly comprehensive and inclusive approach to behavioral public policy. Thank you Wilhelm and Jutta for leading this effort.
📢 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
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
July 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It was a real pleasure to engage in discussion with this outstanding team of co-authors on how individual- and system-level policies can inform one another to create a truly comprehensive and inclusive approach to behavioral public policy. Thank you Wilhelm and Jutta for leading this effort.
An der @univie.ac.at suchen wir eine/n Gastprofessor*in für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie ab Oktober 2025 für einen Zeitraum von 2 Jahren. 🔗 berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...
berufungsservice.univie.ac.at
July 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
An der @univie.ac.at suchen wir eine/n Gastprofessor*in für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie ab Oktober 2025 für einen Zeitraum von 2 Jahren. 🔗 berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...
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There's been a variety of papers on using LLMs to code open-ended survey results, including
- journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14634
- osf.io/preprints/so...
- journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14634
- osf.io/preprints/so...
arxiv.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There's been a variety of papers on using LLMs to code open-ended survey results, including
- journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14634
- osf.io/preprints/so...
- journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14634
- osf.io/preprints/so...
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An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.
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New paper: What increases people’s support for policy responses to #climate #change? ✊
We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎
We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change
Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...
www.nature.com
July 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New paper: What increases people’s support for policy responses to #climate #change? ✊
We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎
We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎
We had an amazing team evening at one of Vienna’s traditional Heuriger wine taverns. Grateful to be part of such a fantastic team! #ViennaVibes
June 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
We had an amazing team evening at one of Vienna’s traditional Heuriger wine taverns. Grateful to be part of such a fantastic team! #ViennaVibes
As the director of whocc-sabrar.univie.ac.at, I signed this open letter now published @thelancet.com to express my support of the @who.int's important activities and efforts.
June 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
As the director of whocc-sabrar.univie.ac.at, I signed this open letter now published @thelancet.com to express my support of the @who.int's important activities and efforts.
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Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
June 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...