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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Betsch C, Böhm R, Airhihenbuwa CA, Butler R, Chapman GB, Haase N et al. Improving medical decision making and health promotion through culture-sensitive health communication: An agenda for science and practice. Medical Decision Making. 2016;36(7):811-833. doi: 10.1177/0272989X15600434
Böhm R. Intuitive participation in aggressive intergroup conflict: Evidence of weak versus strong parochial altruism. Frontiers in Psychology. 2016;7:1535. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01535
Rusch H, Böhm R, Herrmann B. Parochial altruism: Pitfalls and prospects. Frontiers in Psychology. 2016;7:1004. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01004
Theelen MMP, Böhm R. Reciprocal altruism and group living. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Cham: Springer. 2016. p. 1-3 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3723-1
Betsch C, Böhm R, Chapman GB. Using behavioral insights to increase vaccination policy effectiveness. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2015 Oct 1;2(1):61-73. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732215600716
Thielmann I, Böhm R, Hilbig BE. Different games for different motives: Comment on Haesevoets, Folmer, and Van Hiel (2015). European Journal of Personality. 2015 Jul 1;29(4):506-508. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2007
Korn L, Holtmann C, Betsch C, Böhm R. Die Impfbereitschaft verstehen und verbessern: Wenn persönliche Impfentscheidungen im Konflikt mit dem Gemeinwohl stehen und wie man dieses Dilemma auflösen kann. The In-Mind : IM ; Psychologie für alle. [Deutsche Ausgabe]. 2015;2015(2).
Weisel O, Böhm R. “Ingroup love“ and “outgroup hate“ in intergroup conflict between natural groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 2015;60:110-120. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.04.008
Buttelmann D, Böhm R. The ontogeny of the motivation that underlies in-group bias. Psychological Science. 2014 Apr;25(4):921-927. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613516802
Böhm R, Regner T. Charitable giving among females and males: An empirical test of the competitive altruism hypothesis. Journal of Bioeconomics. 2013;15:251–267. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-013-9152-x
Betsch C, Böhm R, Korn L. Inviting free-riders or appealing to prosocial behavior? Game-theoretical reflections on communicating herd immunity in vaccine advocacy. Health Psychology. 2013;32(9):978–985. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031590
Böhm R, Rothermund K, Kirchkamp O. Social categorization and group-motivated interindividual-intergroup discontinuity. European Journal of Social Psychology. 2013;43(1):40-49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.1923
Böhm R, Rockenbach B. The inter-group comparison - intra-group cooperation hypothesis: Comparisons between groups increase efficiency in public goods provision. P L o S One. 2013;8(2):e56152. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056152
Böhm R, Funke F, Harth NS. Same-race and same-gender voting preferences and the role of perceived realistic threat in the democratic primaries and caucuses 2008. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 2010 Dec;10(1):248-261. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-2415.2010.01208.x
Böhm R, Schütz A, Rentzsch K, Körner A, Funke F. Are we looking for positivity or similarity in a partner‘s outlook on life? Similarity predicts perceptions of social attractiveness and relationship quality. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 2010;5(6):431-438. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2010.534105
Gentile G-C, Böhm R, Hoffmann C. Auf dem Weg zum Corporate Citizen - Eine Bestandsaufnahme anleitender Texte. Wirtschaftspsychologie. 2007.
Rudolph U, Böhm R, Lummer M. Ein Vorname sagt mehr als 1000 Worte: Zur sozialen Wahrnehmung von Vornamen. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie. 2007. doi: https://doi.org/10.1024/0044-3514.38.1.17
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