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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
So... under not yet fully understood circumstances, interventions targeting motivation or intentions may help the privileged more than the disadvantaged - and knowledge (risk) or social influence (P&P) the other way round. But: We don't really know what these circumstances are...
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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
⚠️ Finding #2: Are determinant effects similar for everyone? Well... it's complicated. We found that IF determinants (e.g., intentions, beliefs, emotions) had differential effects, they were mostly stronger in less disadvantaged groups. BUT: We don't really know WHEN effects differ (and when not).
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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This suggests current theories may miss key mechanisms of how inequality "gets under the skin" through behaviour - the large nonsig chunks of the bar and sankey plots. We need to look beyond social cognitions to understand health inequalities, and environmental aspects of opportunity seem promising.
A sankey plot showing flows of relations between inequality dimensions, health behaviour determinants and health behaviours.
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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🔍 Finding #1: Do health behavior theories explain social inequalities? We found COM-B factors motivation and opportunity to be the strongest mediators linking inequality to both preventative and health risk behaviours. BUT: 58% of tests showed NO significant mediation.
Figure showing that the majority of examined studies found no significant mediation
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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Similarly, participants in Study 2 consumed more sugar-sweetened beverages when they encountered availability cues such as seeing soft drink cans - but again, this effect was only seen in those with lower educational attainment.
Interaction plot showing stronger effects of encountering availability cues in participants with lower educational attainment.
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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Participants smoked more when they were exposed to social cues such as others smoking - but this effect was found only in those who reported lower educational attainment.
Interaction plot showing stronger effects of social cues on number of cigarettes smoked in participants with lower educational attainment
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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Come to Bremen this summer: LSC Summer School - Designing, evaluating, and implementing digital public health interventions 18-22 August 2025 For early career and experienced researchers Travel Grants available! #PublicHealth #EpiSky #behavioralscience www.digital-public-health.de/ecra/summer-...
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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Is this a bit ironic or what? An ad for advertisements on the landing page for an article on commercial determinants of health... The article however is excellent and well worth a read, though. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
The landing page of the article after the advertising banner has been clicked offThe landing page of the article on commercial determinants of health https://academic.oup.com/heapro/article/39/6/daae183/7906032 with a banner advertising ads on said page
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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I love jumping on bandwagons, too, so here is the overdue version for #healthpsychology. Can you spot my own research in it?
Types of papers in Health Psychology with titles such as "We ran another regression analysis with the Theory of Planned Behaviour but this time stuck another variable in" or "We are confusing mediation and moderation in a cross-sectional survey"
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Benjamin Schüz @bschuez.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Prof. Tanja Schultz läutet hier in an der @unibremen.bsky.social die nacht-der-biosignale.de ein - wen's interessiert, um 20:30 gibt es einen Vortrag zu Potenzialen und Herausforderungen von #biosignals für #publichealth von mir. Die ganze Veranstaltung im Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhu4...
Prof. Dr. Tanja Schultz beim Vortrag zu Biosignale: Der sechste Sinn für künstliche Intelligenz
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