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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Betsch C, Böhm R. Moral values do not affect prosocial vaccination. Nature Human Behaviour. 2018 Dec;2(12):881-882. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0478-1
Böhm R, Rockenbach B, Zimmermann J. United we stand, divided we fall: The limitations of between-group comparisons for fostering within-group cooperation. Journal of Economic Psychology. 2018 Dec;69:19-29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2018.09.005
Korn L, Betsch C, Böhm R, Meier NW. Social nudging: The effect of social feedback interventions on vaccine uptake. Health Psychology. 2018 Nov;37(11):1045-1054. doi: 10.1037/hea0000668
Pfattheicher S, Böhm R, Kesberg R. The advantage of democratic peer punishment in sustaining cooperation within groups. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 2018 Oct;31(4):562-571. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2050
Böhm R, Theelen MMP, Rusch H, Lange PAMV. Costs, needs, and integration efforts shape helping behavior toward refugees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018 Jul 10;115(28):7284-7289. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1805601115
Böhm R, Thielmann I, Hilbig BE. The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow: Morality also fuels aggression, conflict, and violence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2018 May 17;41:e98. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18000031
Pfattheicher S, Böhm R. Honesty-humility under threat: Self-uncertainty destroys trust among the nice guys. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2018 Jan;114(1):179-194. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000144
Lange PAMV (Author), Böhm R (Author). Support for refugees increases when refugees participate in integration programs 2018.
Böhm R, Meier NW, Korn L, Betsch C. Behavioural consequences of vaccination recommendations: An experimental analysis: Consequences of vaccination recommendations. Health Economics. 2017 Dec;26(S3):66-75. doi: 10.1002/hec.3584
Böhm R, Buttelmann D. The impact of resource valence on children’s other-regarding preferences. Developmental Psychology. 2017 Sep;53(9):1656–1665. doi: 10.1037/dev0000365
Korn L, Betsch C, Böhm R, Meier NW. Drawbacks of communicating refugee vaccination rates. The Lancet. Infectious Diseases. 2017 Apr;17(4):364-365. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30141-X
Betsch C, Böhm R, Korn L, Holtmann C. On the benefits of explaining herd immunity in vaccine advocacy. Nature Human Behaviour. 2017 Mar 6;1(3):0056. doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0056
Pfattheicher S, Böhm R. Mechanisms to detect and punish cheaters. In Shackleford T, editor, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Cham: Springer. 2017. p. 1-3 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_935-1
Böhm R, Betsch C, Korn L. Selfish-rational non-vaccination: Experimental evidence from an interactive vaccination game. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 2016 Nov;131(B):183-195. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.11.008
Thielmann I, Böhm R. Who does (not) participate in intergroup conflict? Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2016 Nov;7(8):778-787. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616660160
Betsch C, Böhm R. Cultural diversity calls for culture-sensitive health communication. Medical Decision Making. 2016 Oct;36(7):795-797. doi: 10.1177/0272989X16663482
Betsch C, Böhm R. Detrimental effects of introducing partial compulsory vaccination: Experimental evidence. European Journal of Public Health. 2016 Jun;26(3):378–381. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckv154
Böhm R, Theelen MMP. Outcome valence and externality valence framing in public good dilemmas. Journal of Economic Psychology. 2016 Jun;54:151-163. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2016.04.003
Böhm R, Rusch H, Gürerk Ö. What makes people go to war? Defensive intentions motivate retaliatory and preemptive intergroup aggression. Evolution and Human Behavior. 2016 Jan;37(1):29-34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.06.005
Böhm R, Rusch H. Evolved psychology of warfare. In Weekes-Shackleford V, editor, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Cham: Springer. 2016. p. 1-3 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2964-1
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