Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Robert Böhm

Universitaetsstrasse 7 (NIG)

1010 Vienna

Room: D0603B

T: +43-1-4277-47332

robert.boehm@univie.ac.at

Key publications

Böhm, R., Glowacki, L., Rusch, H., & Thielmann, I. (2025). Untangling altruism and parochialism in human intergroup conflict. iScience, 28, 113978.

Granulo, A., Fuchs, C., & Böhm, R. (2025). Psychological reactance to system-level policies before and after their implementation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122, e2409907122.

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, Meier NW, Groß M, Korn L, Betsch C. The willingness to vaccinate increases when vaccination protects others who have low responsibility for not being vaccinated. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2019 Jun 1;42:381-391. Epub 2018 Nov 1. doi: 10.1007/s10865-018-9985-9
Vollstädt U, Böhm R. Are groups more competitive, more selfish-rational or more prosocial bargainers? Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 2019 Feb;78:146-159. Epub 2018 Dec 14. doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2018.12.003
Böhm R, Betsch C. Ablehnung der Impfpflicht ist keine Ablehnung des Impfens. Deutsches Ärzteblatt. 2019. doi: 10.3238/PersInfek.2019.07.22.05
Betsch C, Schmid P, Korn L, Steinmeyer L, Heinemeier D, Eitze S et al. Impfverhalten psychologisch erklären, messen und verändern. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz. 2019;62:400-409. doi: 10.1007/s00103-019-02900-6
Betsch C, Schmid P, Heinemeier D, Korn L, Holtmann C, Böhm R. Beyond confidence: Development of a measure assessing the 5C psychological antecedents of vaccination. P L o S One. 2018 Dec 7;13(12):e0208601. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208601
Betsch C, Böhm R. Moral values do not affect prosocial vaccination. Nature Human Behaviour. 2018 Dec;2(12):881-882. doi: 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: 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: 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: 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, Böhm R. 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 Sept;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: 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: 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: 10.1177/1948550616660160
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