Robert Böhm

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

It was a pleasure to provide a keynote talk at this week‘s #ECTMIH conference in #Hamburg. I learned about great research to improve health and had fun with my friends and colleagues @miroslavsirota.bsky.social and @corneliabetsch.bsky.social & her team.

🌍 Vom 29.9.–2.10. sind IPB-Mitglieder bei der #ECTMIH2025 in Hamburg mit Forschung zu Impfverhalten, AMR & Risikokommunikation 📊
🎙️ Keynote von IPB-Fellow @robertboehm.bsky.social „Transforming Health and Climate Communication Through Digital Innovation“
@unierfurt.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social

The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions - Nature Reviews Psychology Nature Reviews Psychology - The multi-level social dilemmas of intergroup interactions

My PhD student @qinyuxiao.bsky.social has written a wonderful tribute to Gary Bornstein’s influential paper on team games (doi.org/10.1207/S153...) — a paper that remains as relevant today as it was over 20 years ago. You can read Qinyu’s short piece here: doi.org/10.1038/s441...

This rigorous and fully transparent meta-analysis on the impact of herd immunity communication on vaccination intentions and behavior is based on @leonhardreiter.bsky.social's master’s thesis. Couldn’t be prouder of him. ❤️

You both rock!

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

THREAD 🧵

This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's future wasn't certain; at one point it almost disappeared. This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything. Thanks to our sponsors for making this documentary possible: Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/ @AnacondaInc. Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ @Dropbox Meta: https://opensource.fb.com/ @FacebookOpenSource OpenTeams: https://openteams.com/ @openteams PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ @PyCharmIDE Quansight: https://quansight.com/ @quansight And to all the amazing people who are featured: Armin Ronacher, Barry Warsaw, Benjamin Peterson, Brett Cannon, Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, Lisa Guo, Lisa Roach, Mariatta Wijaya, Paul... Python: The Documentary | An origin story

Tomorrow at 5pm UTC Python: The Documentary produced by @cultrepo.bsky.social premieres on YouTube! 🎬🐍

From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

Exciting and innovative project on an important topic with an outstanding supervisor. Consider applying!

(PDF) Reciprocal Within-Person Relations Between Pandemic Fatigue and Protective Behavior: A 20-Wave Longitudinal Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic PDF | Objective: During the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns emerged that pandemic fatigue might undermine people’s adherence to recommended protective... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

New paper on reciprocal relations between pandemic fatigue and protective behavior accepted for publication in Health Psychology, together with Maie Stein, @cortrudolph.bsky.social, @robertboehm.bsky.social

Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de

Open access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

OMG 😱

I had an interesting 2nd day at #ICBM2025 in Vienna today. In our session, I presented our work on communicating about #AMR and pudent antibiotic use when new antibiotics are developed.
Please visit @abc-network.bsky.social if you are interested in the emerging field of behavioral research and AMR.

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

An approach to capturing the cultural contexts of health behaviours - Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz This paper explores the relationship between cultural contexts and health behaviours, emphasising the need for a comprehensive understanding of cultural influences and acknowledging the limitations of...

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "An approach to capturing the cultural contexts of health behaviours" together with Veerle Snijders, Katrine Bach Habersaat, Edward Fischer, Felicity Thomas, @julieleask.bsky.social, Martha Scherzer, Alona Mazhnaia & Nils Fietje. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thrilled to be visiting @unierfurt.bsky.social in the next two weeks as an @ipb.bsky.social fellow! I'm eager to catch up with longtime colleagues and friends like @corneliabetsch.bsky.social and excited to meet new people, share ideas, and build fresh connections.

Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics

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What does the social fabric of an entire country look like?
We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data.
Here’s what we found 👇
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#NetworkScience #Sociology

Generalizability of choice architecture interventions Nature Reviews Psychology - Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this...

🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts?

… probably not, right?

In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z

Summary👇

It was a real pleasure to engage in discussion with this outstanding team of co-authors on how individual- and system-level policies can inform one another to create a truly comprehensive and inclusive approach to behavioral public policy. Thank you Wilhelm and Jutta for leading this effort.

An der @univie.ac.at suchen wir eine/n Gastprofessor*in für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie ab Oktober 2025 für einen Zeitraum von 2 Jahren. 🔗 berufungsservice.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

There's been a variety of papers on using LLMs to code open-ended survey results, including

- journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14634
- osf.io/preprints/so...

An AI model (Llama 3.1 70B) fine-tuned on the results of 60,000 people in psychology experiments shows some real promise in using LLMs for studying and predicting human behavior.

It predicts actual human behavior in held-out data & it generalizes to out-of-distribution tasks and experiments.

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...

New paper: What increases people’s support for policy responses to #climate #change? ✊
We find: It’s not necessarily firsthand experience of extreme weather events. Instead, it’s whether people think that these events are linked to climate change. Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎

We had an amazing team evening at one of Vienna’s traditional Heuriger wine taverns. Grateful to be part of such a fantastic team! #ViennaVibes

As the director of whocc-sabrar.univie.ac.at, I signed this open letter now published @thelancet.com to express my support of the @who.int's important activities and efforts.

Treemap showing measurement fragmentation across subfields in psychology. Hill-Shannon Diversity 𝐷=1626.05

How often measures in the APA PsycTESTS database are (re)used according to the APA PsycInfo database: rarely, the majority are never reused.

Our fragmentation index (Hill-Shannon diversity) over time across subdisciplines shows fragmentation rising.

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are still looking for collaborators, especially from Africa, Asia and South America for our project on how people from around the world correct their intuitive reasoning errors. More information below. Pls join and share!

psysciacc.org/projects/psa...

Thanks, Hiro, for visiting us in Vienna and sharing some of your exciting research programme.

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

This sounds so interesting and combines several hot topics. You should consider applying!

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: "Support for refugees declines when helpers have unequal positions and abilities to help." Together with Milan van Steenvoort, @hannesrusch.bsky.social and Paul van Lange. doi.org/10.1080/1369...