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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Sprengholz P, Felgendreff L, Böhm R, Betsch C. Vaccination policy reactance: Predictors, consequences, and countermeasures. Journal of Health Psychology. 2022 May;27(6):1394-1407. doi: 10.1177/13591053211044535
Santana AP, Korn L, Betsch C, Böhm R. Lessons learned about willingness to adopt various protective measures during the early COVID-19 pandemic in three countries. PLoS ONE. 2022 Mar 29;17(3):e0265892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265892
Vandeweerdt C, Luong T, Atchapero M, Mottelson A, Holz C, Makransky G et al. Virtual reality reduces COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the wild: a randomized trial. Scientific Reports. 2022 Mar 17;12(1):4593. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-08120-4
Doesum NJV, Murphy RO, Gallucci M, Aharonov-Majar E, Athenstaedt U, Au WT et al. Reply to Nielsen et al.: Social mindfulness is associated with countries’ environmental performance and individual environmental concern. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022 Feb 25;119(9):e2122077119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2122077119
Sääksvuori L, Lauffenburger J, (ed.), Betsch C, Nohynek H, Salo H, Sivelä J et al. Information nudges for influenza vaccination: Evidence from a large-scale cluster-randomized controlled trial in Finland. PLOS Medicine. 2022 Feb 9;19(2):e1003919. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003919
Böhm R, Betsch C. Prosocial vaccination. Current Opinion in Psychology. 2022 Feb 1;43:307-311. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.010
Schiller B, Toensing D, Kleinert T, Boehm R, Heinrichs M. Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Nationwide Lockdown on Mental Health, Environmental Concern, and Prejudice Against Other Social Groups. Environment and Behavior. 2022 Feb;54(2):516-537. doi: 10.1177/00139165211036991
Pfattheicher S, Petersen MB, Böhm R. Information about herd immunity through vaccination and empathy promote COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Health Psychology. 2022 Feb;41(2):85-93. doi: 10.1037/hea0001096
Doesum NJV, Murphy RO, Gallucci M, Aharonov-Majar E, Athenstaedt U, Au WT et al. Reply to Komatsu et al.: From local social mindfulness to global sustainability efforts? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022 Jan 25;119(4):e2119303118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2119303118
Valdez AC, Iftekhar EN, Oliu-Barton M, Bohm R, Cuschieri S, Czypionka T et al. Europe must come together to confront omicron. BMJ. 2022 Jan 13;376:o90. o90. doi: 10.1136/bmj.o90
Hilbig BE, Thielmann I, Boehm R. Bending Our Ethics Code Avoidable Deception and Its Justification in Psychological Research. European Psychologist. 2022 Jan;27(1):62-70. doi: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000431
Pummerer L, Böhm R, Lilleholt L, Winter K, Zettler I, Sassenberg K. Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2022 Jan;13(1):49-59. Epub 2021 Mar 19. doi: 10.1177/19485506211000217
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, Kittel B, Partheymüller J, Resch T. 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
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