Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Robert Böhm

Universitaetsstrasse 7 (NIG)

1010 Vienna

Room: D0603B

T: +43-1-4277-47332

robert.boehm@univie.ac.at


CV

For a CV and further details, see https://robertboehm.info/ 

 

Current advisory positions:

  • Member of the Technical Advisory Group on Behavioral and Cultural Insights (TAG BCI), World Health Organization/Regional Office for Europe

Key publications

Sprengholz, P., Henkel, L., Böhm, R., & Betsch, C. (2023). Historical narratives about the COVID-19 pandemic are motivationally biased. Nature, 693, 588-593.

Lilleholt, L., Zettler, I., Betsch. C., & Böhm, R. (2023). Development and validation of the pandemic fatigue scale. Nature Communications, 14, 6352.

Henkel, L., Sprengholz, P., Betsch, C., & Böhm, R. (2023). The association between vaccination status identification and societal polarization. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 231-239.

Böhm, R., Betsch, C., Litovsky, Y., Sprengholz, P., Brewer, N. T., Chapman, G., Leask, J., Loewenstein, G., Scherzer, M., Sunstein, C. R., & Kirchler, M. (2022). Crowdsourcing interventions to promote uptake of COVID-19 booster vaccines. eClinicalMedicine, 53, 101632.

Böhm, R., Halevy, N., & Kugler, T. (2022). The power of defaults in intergroup conflict. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 168, 104105.

Gross, J., & Böhm, R. (2020). Voluntary restrictions on self-reliance increase cooperation and mitigate wealth inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 17, 29202-29211.

Pfattheicher, S., Nockur, L., Böhm, R., Sassenrath, C., & Petersen, M. B. (2020). The emotional path to action: Empathy promotes physical distancing and wearing of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Science, 31, 1363-1373.

Betsch, C., Korn, L., Sprengholz, P., Felgendreff, L., Eitze, S., Schmid, P., & Böhm, R. (2020). Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 21851-21853.

Korn, L., Böhm, R., Meier, N., & Betsch, C. (2020). Vaccination as a social contract. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 17, 14891-14899.

Böhm, R., Theelen, M. M. P., Rusch, H., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2018). Costs, needs, and integration efforts shape helping behavior toward refugees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 7284-7289.

Pfattheicher, S., & Böhm, R. (2018). Honesty-Humility under threat: Self-uncertainty destroys trust among the nice guys. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114, 179-194.

Betsch., C., Böhm, R., Korn, L, & Holtmann, C. (2017). On the benefits of explaining herd immunity in vaccine advocacy. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0056.

Böhm, R., Rusch, H., & Gürerk, Ö. (2016). What makes people go to war? Defensive intentions motivate retaliatory and preemptive intergroup aggression. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37, 29-34.

Buttelmann, D., & Böhm, R. (2014). The ontogeny of the motivation that underlies in-group bias. Psychological Science, 25, 921-927.


Publications

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Gross R, Sievert EDC, Korn L, Juanchich M, Sirota M, Betsch C et al. Emphasizing the importance of prudent antibiotic use decreases unrealistic perceptions of new antibiotic discoveries. JAC-antimicrobial resistance. 2025 Apr;7(2):dlaf034. doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlaf034

Working group ‘Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education'. Student (Mis)Use of Generative AI Tools for University-Related Tasks. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. 2025 Feb 18;1-14. Epub 2025 Feb 18. doi: 10.1080/10447318.2025.2462083

Santana AP, Søborg B, Jacobsen SU, Zettler I, Böhm R. Danish parents' vaccination readiness is associated with their children's officially registered vaccination history. Vaccine. 2025 Feb 15;47:126693. Epub 2025 Jan 16. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126693

Geiger M, Betsch C, Böhm R. Mind the jingle: A call to consider construct validity of the 7C of vaccination readiness. Vaccine. 2025 Feb 8;126843. Epub 2025 Feb 8. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126843

Korn L, Böhm R, Santana AP, Betsch C. The more the merrier? Two online experiments on how decoys can increase vaccine uptake. Health Psychology. 2025 Feb 1;44(2):119-128. Epub 2024 Sept 23. doi: 10.1037/hea0001378

Schmid P, Boehm R, Das E, Holford D, Korn L, Leask J et al. Vaccination mandates and their alternatives and complements. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2024 Dec;3(12):789-803. doi: 10.1038/s44159-024-00381-2

Flunger B, Lilleholt L, Böhm R, Verdonschot A, van Gog T, Zettler I. Testing self-supportive strategies to regulate autonomy and motivation. PLoS ONE. 2024 Oct;19(10):e0311264. e0311264. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311264

Columbus S, Thielmann I, Boehm R, Zettler I. Personality Correlates of Out-Group Harm. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2024 Sept;15(7):838-847. doi: 10.1177/19485506241254157

Holzmeister F, Johannesson M, Böhm R, Dreber A, Huber J, Kirchler M. Heterogeneity in effect size estimates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2024 Aug 6;121(32):e2403490121. Epub 2024 Jul 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2403490121

Girardini NA, Stopczynski A, Baranov O, Betsch C, Brockmann D, Lehmann S et al. Using smartphones to study vaccination decisions in the wild. PLOS digital health. 2024 Aug;3(8):e0000550. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000550

Scholz DD, Bader M, Betsch C, Böhm R, Lilleholt L, Sprengholz P et al. The moderating role of trust in pandemic-relevant institutions on the relation between pandemic fatigue and vaccination intentions. Journal of Health Psychology. 2024 Mar;29(4):358-364. Epub 2023. doi: 10.1177/13591053231201038

Sirota M, Habersaat KB, Betsch C, Bonga DL, Borek A, Buckel A et al. We must harness the power of social and behavioural science against the growing pandemic of antimicrobial resistance. Nature Human Behaviour. 2024 Jan;8(1):11-13. Epub 2023 Nov 20. doi: 10.1038/s41562-023-01762-y

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