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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/ .. more

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Reposted by Michael Wagner, Andreas Richter, Robert Böhm , and 2 more Michael Wagner, Andreas Richter, Robert Böhm, Nikolaus Forgó, Sophie Lecheler

Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 1d

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...

Foto des Hauptgebäudes der Universität Wien, es fliegt feierliches Konfetti durch das Bild. Rechts unten ist ein Badge zu sehen, auf dem zu lesen ist:
TOP 100
Austrian Excellence, International Impact.
University of Vienna.
THE TOP 100 umranden den Badge.

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Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox, Anna O. Law , and 41 more Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Nandita Sharma, Robbert Sanderman, Robert Böhm, Amy Bruckman, Håvard Kauserud, Gavin A. Schmidt, Wolfgang Kiessling, Colette L. Heald, Julie L. Lockwood, Anthony Ricciardi, Euan G. Ritchie, John R. Hutchinson, Serge Guimond, Megan L. Ranney, Gregory B. Lee, Niels Werber, Laura Pereira, Tuomas Mattila, Paul Cassia, Leonhard Dobusch, Carlos Nunes Silva, Caroline T. Schroeder, Andrew Jacobs, Bessma Momani, Peter Jacobsen, Josef Früchtl, Susan Strasser, Urška Demšar, Vaughan S. Roberts, Fábio Angeoletto, Nikki Fairchild, Catriona Seth, Klaus Oschema, Jason Williams, Olivier Sandre, Charles T. Mathewes, Aviel Roshwald, Aidan O’Sullivan, Gareth Terry, Peter Jacobs

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 8d

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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Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour @ipb.bsky.social · 14d

🌍 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

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 15d

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. ❤️

Lenni @leonhardreiter.bsky.social · 15d

📢 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...

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 15d

You both rock!

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Lenni @leonhardreiter.bsky.social · 15d

Emphasising herd immunity in vaccine advocacy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 22d

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 🧵

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...

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Aug 30

Exciting and innovative project on an important topic with an outstanding supervisor. Consider applying!

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...

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Reposted by Robert Böhm, Cort W. Rudolph

Hannes Zacher @hanneszacher.bsky.social · Aug 29

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/...

(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...

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Aug 28

OMG 😱

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · Aug 27

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...

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...

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Reposted by John Drury, Robert Böhm, Gordon Hodson , and 4 more John Drury, Robert Böhm, Gordon Hodson, Kai Sassenberg, Markus Appel, Lusine Grigoryan, Sara Constantino

Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Aug 26

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Cornelia Betsch 🖖 @corneliabetsch.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨 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

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Rian Gross @riangross.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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Reposted by Robert Böhm, Dean Eckles

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen @andbjn.bsky.social · Jul 29

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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

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

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Reposted by John Drury, Robert Böhm

Barnabas Szaszi @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social · Jul 28

🧵 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👇

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...

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 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

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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Dec 27

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A group of longhorn crazy ants (top) and a group of people (bottom) tackling scaled versions of the same geometrical maneuvering puzzle.

CREDIT: Ofer Feinerman

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JKU Department of Economics @jku-economics.bsky.social · Jan 20

📆 Join us on Jan 22 at our economics research seminar with Robert Böhm (@robertboehm.bsky.social), who will present "Understanding and reducing opposition to system-level policies"

More info and abstract:
www.jku.at/en/departmen...

#EconSky

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · Jan 16

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Join us to explore how behavioural science can help address antimicrobial resistance.

3rd Behavioural Insights & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop

When: 15–16 May 2025
Where: University of Vienna (+online option)
Organised by @robertboehm.bsky.social and @miroslavsirota.bsky.social

ABC Network: Activities

www.a-bc.network

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Caspar van Lissa 🟥 @cjvanlissa.bsky.social · Mar 6

Revising papers became easy when I discovered James Conigrave's "revise" package, which inserts tagged snippets from a manuscript into a revision letter! No more back-and-forth, no more consistency checking. Now on CRAN, may it save you as much time as it did me! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

revise: Dynamic Revision Letters for 'Rmarkdown' Manuscripts

Extracts tagged text from markdown manuscripts for inclusion in dynamically generated revision letters. Provides an R markdown template based on papaja::revision_letter_pdf() with comment cross-refere...

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Reposted by Robert Böhm, Johannes Breuer

Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · May 28

🚀Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project:

"Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models"
(funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de)

📅Start: 01.10.2025 | ⏳4 years
🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/jhbCen
🔄 Thanks for sharing!

Postdoc

uni-marburg.de

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Reposted by Robert Böhm, Cornelia Betsch, Hannes Rusch

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)

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · Jul 17

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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Reposted by Robert Böhm, Alistair Munro

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Jul 11

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...

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