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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Böhm R, Halevy N, Kugler T. The power of defaults in intergroup conflict. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 2022 Jan;168:104105. doi: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2021.104105
Zettler I, Schild C, Lilleholt L, Kroencke L, Utesch T, Moshagen M et al. The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2022 Jan;13(1):299-310. Epub 2021 Apr 5. doi: 10.1177/19485506211001680
Böhm R, Betsch C, Litovsky Y, Sprengholz P, Brewer NT, Chapman G et al. Crowdsourcing interventions to promote uptake of COVID-19 booster vaccines. EClinicalMedicine. 2022;53:101632. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101632
Luong T, Plechata A, Möbus M, Atchapero M, Böhm R, Makransky G et al. Demographic and Behavioral Correlates of Cybersickness: A Large Lab-in-the-Field Study of 837 Participants. Mixed and Augmented Reality : Proceedings of the ... IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. 2022;307-316. doi: 10.1109/ISMAR55827.2022.00046
Mottelson A, Vandeweerdt C, Atchapero M, Luong T, Holz C, Böhm R et al. A self-administered virtual reality intervention increases COVID-19 vaccination intention. Vaccine. 2021 Nov 5;39(46):6746-6753. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.10.004
Sprengholz P, Betsch C, Böhm R. Reactance revisited: Consequences of mandatory and scarce vaccination in the case of COVID-19. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. 2021 Nov;13(4):986-995. doi: 10.1111/aphw.12285
Böhm R (Author), Kittel B (Author), Partheymüller J (Author), Resch T (Author). Das 7C-Modell zur Erklärung der (mangelnden) Impfbereitschaft 2021.
Betsch C, Bosnjak M, Korn L, Burgard T, Gaissmaier W, Felgendreff L et al. The four weeks before lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: a weekly serial cross-sectional survey on risk perceptions, knowledge, public trust and behaviour, 3 to 25 March 2020. Eurosurveillance. 2021 Oct 28;26(43):2100978. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.42.2001900
Korn L, Siegers R, Eitze S, Sprengholz P, Taubert F, Böhm R et al. Age Differences in COVID-19 Preventive Behavior A Psychological Perspective. European Psychologist. 2021 Oct;26(4):359-372. doi: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000462
Ehlert A, Böhm R, Fleiß J, Rauhut H, Rybnicek R, Winter F. The Development of Prosociality: Evidence for a Negative Association between Age and Prosocial Value Orientation from a Representative Sample in Austria. games. 2021 Sep 15;12(3):67. doi: 10.3390/g12030067
Columbus S, Böhm R. Norm shifts under the strategy method. Judgment and Decision Making. 2021 Sep 5;16(5):1267-1289.
Zettler I, Lilleholt L, Böhm R, Gondan M. Comparing responses in repeated cross-sectional and panel studies: Results across eight weeks during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Denmark. Psychological Assessment. 2021 Aug 29;33(8):691-704. doi: 10.1037/pas0001048
Doesum NJV, Murphy RO, Gallucci M, Aharonov-Majar E, Athenstaedt U, Au WT et al. Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021 Aug 25;118(35):2023846118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2023846118
Columbus S, Thielmann I, Zettler I, Böhm R. Preferences and beliefs in intergroup conflict. PsyArXiv. 2021 Aug 18. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/ghvty
Theelen MMP, Böhm R. The conflict-cooperation effect persists under intragroup payoff asymmetry. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 2021 Aug;24(5):815-835. doi: 10.1177/1368430220910795
Böhm R, Fleiß J, Rybnicek R. On the stability of social preferences in inter-group conflict: A lab-in-the-field panel study. The Journal of Conflict Resolution. 2021 Jul 1;65(6):1215-1248. doi: 10.1177/0022002721994080
Korn L, Böhm R, Betsch C. Reply to Rabb et al.: Why promoting COVID-19 vaccines with community immunity is not a good strategy (yet). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021 Apr 6;118(14):e2102054118 . doi: 10.1073/PNAS.2102054118
Thielmann I, Böhm R, Hilbig BE. Buying unethical loyalty: A behavioral paradigm and empirical test. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2021 Apr 1;12(3):363-370. doi: 10.1177/1948550620905218
Betsch C, Korn L, Böhm R. Reply to Weisel: From polarization to vaccination and back. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021 Mar 30;118(13):e2102717118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2102717118
Thielmann I, Böhm R, Ott M, Hilbig BE. Economic games: An introduction and guide for research. Collabra: Psychology. 2021 Feb 26;7(1):19004. doi: 10.1525/collabra.19004
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