Lilian Kojan

General population preferences for health-related protective behaviors during infectious disease emergencies: a systematic review of conjoint-analysis studies To primarily systematically review the evidence from conjoint analysis (CA) studies on general population preferences for health-related protective be…

When facing an epidemic, decision-makers have to agree on a public health strategy. But what does the public want?

To put it very briefly: Strategies should neither be too lax nor too strict, but it also depends on when and who you ask.

Read more in this new review!
#publichealth #socialscience

Interesting paper and helpful thread. Bottom line: publicly supported independent media and reducing uncertainty lead to positive cycles; lower quality media and perpetuating uncertainty lead to downward spirals in this Austrian study.

Thursday music thought: I feel like that the songs 'Night shift' by Lucy Dacus and 'Silver Springs' by Fleetwood Mac are sisters.

@yrfatfriend.bsky.social I just started to watch the Fit for TV docu and was kind of apprehensive about it. And suddenly, there you are! What a nice surprise! 😊 Really interested in hearing your perspective.

Festanstellung beeinträchtigt Forschungsleistung nicht Eine erfolgreiche Tenure-Evaluation wirkt sich nicht negativ auf die Publikationstätigkeit aus. Es gibt jedoch Unterschiede zwischen den Fächern.

"Aktuelle Studienergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler ihre Anstrengungen nicht reduzieren, nachdem sie eine Festanstellung erlangt haben." 1/2

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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....

🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....

awesome to see this publication from the Trust in Science and Populism many labs work led by Daniel Toribio-Flórez out. A nice piece extending our understanding of the link between individual victimhood and #conspiracybelief

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Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...

🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎

Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A smiling woman stands next to a scientific poster titled "Empirically grounded model of coupled infection and behavior dynamics"

Learning a lot about nowcasting and forecasting at Espidam 2025 summer school! 😊

I also got the chance to present a poster about my research on integrating adherence behavior with an epidemic agent-based model

Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social .

We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric.

Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric.

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Four people stand smiling before a slide on the MONID Modeling Network conference.

Many highlights, including some very interesting talks on the role of behavior - not least by my colleagues!

Group photo of all workshop participants and lecturers

Photo of a large room with participants working on laptops while a lecturer leads the exercise on a big screen

Had a great day at the #GEMS #OptimAgent Workshop yesterday before the #MONID2025 conference kicks off today!
Thanks @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social for hosting the workshop!

It's already the last day at #monid 2025! Closing down three days of great talks and discussions on #InfectiousDisease and modeling with a symposium on the use of modeling in #PublicHealth. 📊🧫

I think Miro works well for flow charts etc. because it looks quite nice without much effort. I have also used Affinity Designer for more illustrative figures, but having some graphic design experience is helpful for that.

Interestingly, trust in scientists is lower in Germany than in comparable countries. 📉 Compared to global results, Germans also are less inclined to want scientists involved in policy-making. 📃 At the same time, they strongly value communication between scientists and the general public. 💬

Super excited about this article, for which we also collected data. 😊

You can also explore the data including country differences here: tisp.shinyapps.io/TISP/ 🕵️

Both "automation paradox" and "automation trap" refer to a range of phenomena, most of which have little to do with what I described above.

I wonder whether there is a name for the following phenomenon: One automates a task, but the automation process itself costs more time and/or resources than doing the task manually for the foreseeable future would have. Any pointers?

Day 2 of #MONID2024 is off with a really insightful keynote by Niel Hens talking about the interplay between data and mathematical modeling during the COVID-19 epidemic. One key takeaway for me is the importance of good #sciencecommunication for modeling.

Scientific poster on pneumococcal conjugate vaccines

There are so many interesting posters. One highlight for me is this amazing example for science communication by Anabelle Wong and colleagues! Engaging, easy to understand and with no walls of text in sight.

Great keynote by Julia Fitzner about the complexity of epidemics and the role of data (presentation) and modeling for decision-making.

Excited to participate in the MONID 2024 conference! So many fascinating talks to look forward to ☺️

Dieses Jahr sind mindestens 320 trans Personen getötet worden.

Die Dunkelziffer ist größer, da Viele bei Verbrechen und im Tod misgendered und nicht als trans erfasst werden. Vor allem trans Männer.

Gemessen daran wie Wenige wir sind ist das immens.

#TransDayOfRemembrance

Someone sent me this meme about peer reviewer comments and it is 👌🏻 #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Wondering today about songs for autumn 🍂 - that is both with autumn as a topic or with a general autumnal vibe. There are songs I distinctly associate with summer or winter, but autumn and spring are a different story. Anyone who wants to share what they listen to in autumn?

Attending the behavioural and cultural insights convention in Berlin today. Excited to learn about #behaviouralpolicy in Germany! 😊