Cornelia Betsch 🖖
@corneliabetsch.bsky.social
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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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📖 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
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congrats @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social ! #applynow
robertboehm.bsky.social
Exciting and innovative project on an important topic with an outstanding supervisor. Consider applying!
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🚨 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...
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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
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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...
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📢 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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I would never have thought that academia and science would be the first to bend their knees.
usha.bsky.social
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.
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#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
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Danke für ein Gespräch über Star-Trek Liebe, die Frage nach der Natur des Bösen und was das Abspalten und Wegsperren des Bösen alles mit unserem Leben heute zu tun hat, wie wir unsere Werte verteidigen und was man immer wieder neu in derselben guten alten Folge Next Generation finden kann.
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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...
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ipb.bsky.social
Das wird richtig spannend und dementsprechend groß ist auch bereits der Andrang!
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#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
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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.
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
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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...
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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!
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🚨 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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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
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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
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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...
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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