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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Tomorrow marks the start of 🌍 World AMR Awareness Week 2025! We’ll be sharing insights from our AMR research as psychologists at @univie.ac.at @ipb.bsky.social @unierfurt.bsky.social and BNITM. Like/share this post for updates throughout the week! #AMR #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek #WAAW2025

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Lenni @leonhardreiter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

📢 New SysRev + Meta-Analysis out in Health Psychology Review! Together with the amazing Martin Voracek, @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & @robertboehm.bsky.social Do messages about herd immunity increase or decrease vaccination motivation? 🤔 Read more to find out! 🧵 OA: doi.org/10.1080/1743...

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Emphasising herd immunity in vaccine advocacy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Emphasising herd immunity in vaccine communication may affect vaccine uptake by eliciting prosocial or selfish motivations. While experimental evidence has accumulated, quantitative syntheses are l...

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Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour @ipb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

📖 Die neue Ausgabe des #Bundesgesundheitsblatts @springernature.com widmet sich #BCI. Sie richtet sich vor allem an Fachleute im Gesundheitswesen 👩‍⚕️👨‍🔬 & liefert fundierte Infos zu Forschung & Gesundheitsschutz. Mitkoordiniiert wurde sie u.a. von @corneliabetsch.bsky.social @unierfurt.bsky.social

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Cornelia Betsch 🖖 @corneliabetsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Das war ein großer Spass! Fast einen ganzen Tag Ideen zu Fragen der planetaren Gesundheit gewälzt - DANKE ❤️ Markus Reichstein @ellisunitjena.bsky.social und Team, @robertboehm.bsky.social und Geko Team des @ipb.bsky.social #planetaryhealth #behavioralscience #climate #health #sciencebsky

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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

📢 New commentary out today in Nature Human Behaviour! We argue that behavior change interventions often suffer from a one-sided success focus. But failures may reveal structural barriers people face. 🔗 rdcu.be/ex8hR #BehavioralScience #PublicPolicy

Comment: Rethinking behavior change interventions in policymaking

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Leif Erik Sander 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @sanderlab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I would never have thought that academia and science would be the first to bend their knees.

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Cornelia Betsch 🖖 @corneliabetsch.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Ihre schwarze Seele haben Titanen einst auf dem Planeten Vagra II hinterlassen und damit ein neues, dunkles Lebewesen erschaffen - eine Haut aus Bösem, die Skin of Evil. Genau dort durfte ich Simon und Sebastian von meinem Lieblingspodcast Trek am Dienstag treffen. trekamdienstag.de/2025/02/20/t...

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Trek Nights #40: Connie und die schwarze Seele ⋆ Trek am Dienstag - Star Trek Podcast

Episode herunterladen (MP3, 59 MB) Cornelia Betsch in ihrer Funktion als Direktorin des Institute for Planetary Behaviour forscht an klimagesundem Verhalten – wie man Rahmenbedingungen dazu schafft, w...

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Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour @ipb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Das wird richtig spannend und dementsprechend groß ist auch bereits der Andrang!

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Stefan Herzog @stefanherzog.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🌟🧠💪📝 #BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology. PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025 For more: scienceofboosting.org @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social #policy #behavioralscience 1/ 🧵👇

The image is the cover page of an article from the "Annual Review of Psychology" titled "Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science" by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig. It features a brief abstract, keywords, and publication details. The abstract outlines the concept of "boosting" as a behavioral public policy that emphasizes empowering individuals to make informed decisions, in contrast to "nudging," which subtly steers behavior. The abstract reads:

Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it does not promote agency and relies on benevolent choice architects), other behavioral policy approaches focus on empowering citizens. Here we review boosting, a behavioral policy approach that aims to foster people's agency, self-control, and ability to make informed decisions. It is grounded in evidence from behavioral science showing that human decision making is not as notoriously flawed as the nudging approach assumes. We argue that addressing the challenges of our time—such as climate change, pandemics, and the threats to liberal democracies and human autonomy posed by digital technologies and choice architectures—calls for fostering capable and engaged citizens as a first line of response to complement slower, systemic approaches.

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1. Behavioral public policy garnered widespread attention with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice.
2. Criticisms of nudging include that it does not promote agency and competences and that it relies—overly optimistically—on the presence of benevolent choice architects.
3. The proliferation of environments threatening people's autonomy, the slow pace of systemic approaches to tackling societal issues, and the intrinsic benefits of empowerment make empowering citizens an indispensable objective of behavioral public policy.
4. Boosting is a behavioral public policy approach to empowerment grounded in evidence from behavioral science that shows that humans’ boundedly rational decision making is not as flawed as the nudging approach assumes.
5. Boosts are interventions that improve people's competencies to make informed choices that conform to their goals, preferences, and desires.
6. In self-nudging boosts, people learn to use architectural changes in their proximate choice environment to regulate their own behavior—that is, they are empowered to adapt their own choice environments.
7. There are boosts to foster core competences in many domains, including finance, online environments, and health, as well as broader, overarching areas, such as motivation, risk, and judgment and decision making. Boosts should be part of a policy mix that also includes system-level approaches.
8. When implementing boosts, policy makers need to avoid the trap of individualizing responsibility and to be mindful that, due to differences in cognition and motivation, inequalities in the desirable effects across boosted individuals may emerge.

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Cornelia Betsch 🖖 @corneliabetsch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Heute Sitzung des Deutschen Ethikrats mit öffentlichem Teil - wir stellen 5 potenzielle Stellungnahmethemen vor. Herzliche Einladung: www.ethikrat.org/veranstaltun... Pflege - Schwangerschaft - Neurotechnologie - Freiheit & Verantwortung - Lebensende

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Themenauswahl für Stellungnahmen

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Cornelia Betsch 🖖 @corneliabetsch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Größte Vorfreude! Kommt, lasst uns über Zukunft reden! Mit Sebastian Göttling und Simon Fistrich, den wunderbaren Hosts von trekamdienstag.de Podcast 🖖 Morgen an Nikolaus ein Stündchen zur Mittagszeit, 13 Uhr hier: uni-erfurt.webex.com/uni-erfurt/j...

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Trek am Dienstag - Star Trek Podcast - Höre hier alle Folgen!

Trek am Dienstag (kurz: TAD) ist der Star-Trek-Podcast mit Retro-Schlagseite auf Deutsch. Alle Star-Trek-Folgen im Rewatch, Specials, Streams und mehr!

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Cornelia Betsch 🖖 @corneliabetsch.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Heiße Empfehlung - @robertboehm.bsky.social sucht Doktorand*innen. Eine fantastische Arbeitsgruppe mit dem hellsten Kopf und großem Drive. Gesellschaftlich immer am Puls der Zeit und richtig gute Forschung. Bewerben! Und bitte weitersagen!

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Cornelia Betsch 🖖 @corneliabetsch.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Forschung ist Weltoffenheit! "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch that illuminates the world." (Pasteur). Mit Tausenden anderen setzen wir daher ein sichtbares Zeichen: Für die Demokratie thueringen-weltoffen.de

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Emanuel Wyler @ewyler.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Corona-Pandemie, Erinnerung und Aufarbeitung – sehr interessante Studie mit Umfragen in 11 Ländern. - Kurze Zusammenfassung: www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/d... - Sehr lesenswerte Betrachtung, auch über die Pandemie hinaus: www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2... - Studie selber: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Aufarbeitung der Corona-Pandemie: Das Virus in den Köpfen

Eine Studie zeigt, dass viele die Pandemiemaßnahmen für reine Gängelung halten. Aber auch die Gegenseite erinnert sich falsch. Das ist eine Gefahr für die Zukunft.

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Cornelia Betsch 🖖 @corneliabetsch.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

In der Pandemie wurde Gesundheitsverhalten wie Impfen oder Nicht-Impfen für viele zum Teil ihrer Identität. Daraus entstehen Konflikte, die bis heute andauern. Unser neues Paper in Nature zeigt, wie unser aller Nachdenken über die Pandemie verzerrt ist nature.com/articles/s41...

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Robert Böhm @robertboehm.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

We are hiring! Looking for a new colleague (and my office neighbor) to become PROFESSOR (FULL) OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna. Please repost & share with potentially interested colleagues. shorturl.at/biyNT Vienna rocks! @univie.ac.at

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