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Reposted by: Robert Böhm, Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox , and 40 more

kojamf.bsky.social
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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by Robert Böhm

robertboehm.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Robert Böhm

ipb.bsky.social
🌍 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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by Robert Böhm

robertboehm.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
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by Robert Böhm

robertboehm.bsky.social
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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Lenni @leonhardreiter.bsky.social · 13d
📢 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
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by Robert Böhm

robertboehm.bsky.social
You both rock!
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Reposted by: Robert Böhm

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
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Reposted by: Robert Böhm, Brendan Nyhan, Scott L. Greer , and 15 more

jamiecummins.bsky.social
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...
arxiv.org
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by Robert Böhm — Reposted by: Cornelia Betsch

robertboehm.bsky.social
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...
Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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by Hannes Zacher — Reposted by: Robert Böhm, Cort W. Rudolph

hanneszacher.bsky.social
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...
www.researchgate.net
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by Robert Böhm

robertboehm.bsky.social
OMG 😱
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Reposted by: Robert Böhm

python.org
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: Robert Böhm, John Drury, Gordon Hodson , and 4 more

wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social
🚨 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
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by Cornelia Betsch — Reposted by: Robert Böhm

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
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by Robert Böhm — Reposted by: Julie Leask

robertboehm.bsky.social
🚨 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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by Robert Böhm

robertboehm.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Robert Böhm

riangross.bsky.social
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

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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
doi.org
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Reposted by: Robert Böhm, John Drury

szaszibarnabas.bsky.social
🧵 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...
rdcu.be
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by Robert Böhm

robertboehm.bsky.social
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.
wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Robert Böhm, Cornelia Betsch

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
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Reposted by: Robert Böhm

pnas.org
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-economics.bsky.social
📆 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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miroslavsirota.bsky.social
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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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Reposted by: Robert Böhm

cjvanlissa.bsky.social
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...
cran.r-project.org
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Reposted by: Robert Böhm, Johannes Breuer

danielheck.bsky.social
🚀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

robertboehm.bsky.social
🚨 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)
t.co
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by Robert Böhm

robertboehm.bsky.social
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
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Reposted by: Robert Böhm, Alistair Munro

kwcollins.bsky.social
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...
arxiv.org
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Reposted by: Robert Böhm, David G. Rand

emollick.bsky.social
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.
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