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

Henkel, L., Sprengholz, P., Betsch, C., & Böhm, R. (in press). The association between vaccination status identification and societal polarization. Nature Human Behaviour.

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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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
Betsch C, Schmid P, Korn L, Eitze S, Ochel P, Felgendreff L et al. Einführung einer Impfpflicht: Eine politische Entscheidung. Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 2021;118(49):A 2312-6.
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