Robert Böhm
Robert Böhm
Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG)
1010 Vienna
Room: D0603B
+43-1-4277-47332
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
Sun, H., Spadaro, G., Pelica, S., Kamiloğlu, R. G., Abrahams, L., Ackerman, J. M., Adams, S., Al-Shawaf, L., Alvergne, A., Amponsah, B., Andersen, N., Antfolk, J., Atamtürk Duyar, D., Bai, S., Barbato, M. T., Barbosa, S., Barclay, P., Becker, D. V., de Souza, B. B., ... Tybur, J. M. (2026). Interpersonal value regulates infection-risky social contact across 61 societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(42), e2615739123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2615739123
Gross, R., Sievert, E. D. C., Korn, L., Santana, A. P., Betsch, C., & Böhm, R. (2026). Promoting health information-seeking behaviour prior to vaccination decisions. Psychology & Health, 1-23. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2026.2739472
Böhm, R., Fuchs, C., Granulo, A., & Reiter, L. (2026). Öffentliche Akzeptanz von systemischen Politikmaßnahmen im Zeitverlauf. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 27(3), 308-317. https://doi.org/10.1515/pwp-2026-0018
Böhm, R., Gross, R., Korn, L., Schneider, A., Sievert, E. D. C., & Betsch, C. (2026). Antibiotikaeinsatz: Psychologische Einflussfaktoren auf die Wahrnehmung und das Verhalten von Ärzt*innen und Patient*innen. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 69(5), 574-581. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-026-04225-7
Böhm, R., Schneider, A., Betsch, C., & Lilleholt, L. (2026). CDC communication undermines trust in vaccines. Science (New York, N.Y.), 392(6797), 475-477. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aef5320
Reiter, L., Böhm, R., & Fuchs, C. (2026). Country-level differences in socio-economic development and cultural dimensions are associated with workers’ economic expectations of AI: Evidence from 31 countries. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 21, Article 100905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100905
Liu, Y., Stivers, A. W., Murphy, R. O., Van Doesum, N. J., Joireman, J., Gallucci, M., Aharonov-Majar, E., Athenstaedt, U., Bai, L., Böhm, R., Buchan, N. R., Chen, X.-P., Dumont, K. B., Engelmann, J. B., Eriksson, K., Euh, H., Fiedler, S., Friesen, J., Gachter, S., ... Van Lange, P. A. M. (2026). Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism, and competition. European Journal of Personality, 40(1), 24-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241298850
Xiao, Q., Columbus, S., & Böhm, R. (2026). Self-serving intergroup aggression escalates and prevails over parochial cooperation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47(1), Article 106801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106801
Reiter, L., Voracek, M., Betsch, C., & Böhm, R. (2026). Emphasising herd immunity in vaccine advocacy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review, 20(1), 223-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2025.2562841
Plechatá, A., Makransky, G., & Böhm, R. (2026). Engaging the unengaged: Differential effects of AI-driven climate communication across audiences. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 109, Article 102892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102892
Stein, M., Zacher, H., Rudolph, C. W., & Böhm, R. (2026). Reciprocal within-person relations between pandemic fatigue and protective behavior: A 20-wave longitudinal study during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Psychology, 45(3), 241-250. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001551
Holzmeister, F., Böhm, R., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., & Kirchler, M. (Accepted/In press). Tackling heterogeneity in populations, designs, and analyses through big-team science. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Schild, C., Lilleholt, L., Böhm, R., & Zettler, I. (2026). Testing the effectiveness and endorsement of collective punishment. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/089020702513958
Sievert, E. D. C., Gross, R., Korn, L., Betsch, C., & Böhm, R. (2026). Using a decision support tool to reduce inappropriate antibiotic use after a delayed presciption. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 18(4), Article e70198. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.70198
Schneider, A. K., Sirota, M., Gross, R., Korn, L., Sievert, E. D. C., Betsch, C., & Böhm, R. (2026). Willful ignorance in the context of antibiotic prescribing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 127, Article 104965.
Böhm, R., Glowacki, L., Rusch, H., & Thielmann, I. (2025). Untangling altruism and parochialism in human intergroup conflict. iScience, 28(12), Article 113978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113978
Snijders, V., Bach Habersaat, K., Böhm, R., Fischer, E., Thomas, F., Leask, J., Scherzer, M., Mazhnaia, A., & Fietje, N. (2025). An approach to capturing the cultural contexts of health behaviours. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 68(9), 978-985. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-025-04105-6
Sievert, E. D. C., Korn, L., Gross, R., Böhm, R., & Betsch, C. (2025). Recovery attributions and future expectations for antibiotics after precautionary prescribing. European Journal of Public Health, 35(5), 1020-1025. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf146
Hofmann, W., Betsch, C., Böhm, R., de Ridder, D., Drews, S., Ewert, B., Hertwig, R., Sniehotta, F. F., & Mata, J. (2025). Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking. Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 1765-1767. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02284-5
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 of the United States of America (PNAS), 122(18), Article e2409907122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409907122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409907122