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Brief of the academic career
- 2015–current Senior research assistant at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (Social Psychology)
- 2009–2015 Senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Switzerland (Psychological Process Modeling)
- 2008–2009 Post-doctoral scientist at the Arizona State University (USA) (Human Evolution & Social Change)
- 2006 PhD in Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 2000–2008 Scientific assistant at University of Zurich (Social Psychology) and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Switzerland (Systemanalysis, Integrated Assessment and Modeling)
- 2000 MSc in Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1993–1996 Employed as geotechnical engineer at Heierli AG (Zurich, Switzerland)
- 1989 MSc in civil engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ), Switzerland
Research fields
- Behavior-change and habit development: Quantifying intervention effects on behaviors and mediating psychological and structural factors; optimal selection of behavior-change techniques
- Communication and cooperation: Problem solving and cooperation in groups with communication, virtual vs. face-to-face communication, collective actions, immoral cooperation
- Risk perception and heuristic decision making: Effects of trust and affective evaluations on decisions, and of communication forms and contents on trust and affect
- Methods for investigating individual change: Questionnaire-based data gathering, gathering of time-series data of psychological factors, mediation-analysis, time-series analysis
- Agent-based computer simulation: Development of agent-based models, and data-based system analysis and testing of these models
Areas of application
- Environmental psychology
- Health psychology
- Development cooperation
- Behavior-change campaigns
- Co-design of innovations (usability, acceptance, motivation to use)
- Risk communication
- Drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) in developing countries
- Climate change
- Corruption / bribery
Publications
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- ORCID
- Database of the University of Zurich:
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Publications
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Health-related social control in overweight romantic couples: daily associations with physical activity and affect for targets and agents. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 59(1):kaae093.
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Can Asymmetric Punishment Explain Norm Changes?. Social Psychology, 55(2):76-87.
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Public Perceptions of Climate Change in the Peruvian Andes. Sustainability, 13(5):2677.
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Health behavior change in older adults: testing the health action process approach at the inter- and intraindividual level. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 9(3):324-348.
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Identifying target factors for interventions to increase boat cleaning in order to prevent spread of invasive species. Management of Biological Invasions, 8(1):71-84.
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Assessing adherence to multiple medications and in daily life among patients with multimorbidity. Psychology & Health, 32(10):1233-1248.
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Prospective and retrospective memory are differentially related to self-rated omission and commission errors in medication adherence in multimorbidity. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 24(6):505-511.
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Optimizing Campaigns for Changing Routine Behaviors by Using an Empirically Calibrated Microsimulation Model. Social Science Computer Review, 35(2):184-202.
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Early testing of new sanitation technology for urban slums: The case of the Blue Diversion Toilet. Science of the Total Environment, 576:264-272.
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Overland transport of recreational boats as a spreading vector of zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha. Biological Invasions, 18(5):1451-1466.
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Erfolgskontrolle einer Bachrevitalisierung im urbanen Raum – das Beispiel Chriesbach. Wasser Energie Luft, 108:63-69.
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Communication About Micropollutants in Drinking Water: Effects of the Presentation and Psychological Processes. Risk Analysis, 36(10):2011-2026.
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Slum inhabitants' perceptions and decision-making processes related to an innovative sanitation service: evaluating the Blue Diversion Toilet in Kampala (Uganda). International journal of environmental health research, 25(6):670-684.
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Opportunities and limits to market-driven sanitation services: evidence from urban informal settlements in East Africa. Environment and Urbanization, 27(2):421-440.
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A guide to behaviour change. Dübendorf, Schweiz: Swiss Federal Institut of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag).
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The role of commitment strength in enhancing safe water consumption: Mediation analysis of a cluster-randomized trial. British Journal of Health Psychology, 19(4):701-719.
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Evidence-based tailoring of behavior-change campaigns: increasing fluoride-free water consumption in rural Ethiopia with persuasion. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 6(1):96-118.
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Predicting water consumption habits for seven arsenic-safe water options in Bangladesh. BMC Public Health, 13:417.
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Modeling the impact of promotion activities on the diffusion of innovation process based on real-world data. In: Koch, A. Proceedings of the 8th European Social Simulation Association Conference ESSA 2012. Salzburg: Selbstverl. des Fachbereiches Geographie und Geologie der Univ. Salzburg, 99-103.
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The challenge of understanding decisions in experimental studies of common pool resource governance. Ecological Economics, 70(9):1571-1579.
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Sustainable use of arsenic-removing sand filters in Vietnam: psychological and social factors. Environmental Science & Technology, 45(8):3260-3267.
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Effects of basic decisions in the design and analysis of the model of prospective memory and habit development. In: Ernst, A; Kuhn, S. Proceedings of the 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation WCSS 2010. Kassel: Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, CD-ROM.
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Sozialfokussierte Interventionen und kollektive Aktionen. In: Linneweber, Volker. Spezifische Umwelten und umweltbezogenes Handeln. Göttingen: Hogrefe, 669-696.
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Gathering time-series data for evaluating behavior-change campaigns in developing countries: reactivity of diaries and interviews. Evaluation Review, 34(5):367-390.
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Promotion of solar water disinfection: Comparing the effectiveness of different strategies in a longitudinal field study in Bolivia. Health Communication, 24(8):711-722.
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Developing Strategies for Waste Reduction by Means of Tailored Interventions in Santiago de Cuba. Environment & Behavior, 41(6):836-865.
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Changing behavior by memory aids: a social psychological model of prospective memory and habit development tested with dynamic field data. Psychological Review, 116(2):408-438.
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The effectiveness of reminders: Testing the adequacy of a prospective-memory model based on dynamic field data. In: Edmonds, Bruce. Conference proceedings : the 6th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association; 14th-18th September, 2009; University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. Guildford, CD-ROM.
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Attitudinal and relational factors predicting the use of solar water disinfection: A field study in Nicaragua. Health Education & Behavior, 35(2):207-220.
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Exploring the effects of campaigning strategies for the organization of collective action using empirical data. In: Edmonds, B; Hernández, C; Troitzsch, K. Social simulation : technologies, advances, and new discoveries. Hershey, Pa., US: Information Science Reference, 239-251.
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Simulation und Modellierung. In: Lantermann, E D; Linneweber, V. Grundlagen, Paradigmen und Methoden der Umweltpsychologie. Göttingen, DE: Hogrefe, 899-928.
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Deriving interventions on the basis of factors influencing behavioral intentions for waste recycling, composting, and reuse in Cuba. Environment and Behavior, 40(4):522-544.
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A model of prospective memory and habit phenomena calibrated with dynamic field data. In: Sklenar, Jaroslav. Modelling and simulation 2007. The European Simulation and Modelling Conference, 2007, ESM 2007; October 22 - 24, 2007, St. Julian's, Malta. Ghent: EUROSIS-ETI, 373-380.
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How do commitments work? An agent-based simulation using data from a recycling campaign in Santiago de Cuba. In: Arabnia, H R. Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2007, Volume I, June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Las Vegas: CSREA Press, 56-61.
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Einsatz der Computersimulation in der Umweltpsychologie. Umweltpsychologie, 11(2):22-37.
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Umweltpsychologische Interventionsformen neu gedacht. Umweltpsychologie, 11(1):35-54.
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A framework designed for social scientists to model human agent behaviour in social networks. In: Troch, I; Breitenecker, F. 5th MATHMOD : proceedings. Vienna: Argesim, 1-1-1-8.
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Factors determining the intension to reuse, separate and compost household waste in the city of Santiago de Cuba. In: Caballero Rodríguez, T; Guzmán Miranda, O. Waste: The Social Context (2005). Edmonton: Edmonton Waste Management Centre of Excellence, 736-744.
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Produced household waste and the recycling and disposal strategies of the population of Santiago de Cuba. In: Caballero Rodríguez, T; Guzmán Miranda, O. Waste: The Social Context (2005). Edmonton: Edmonton Waste Management Centre of Excellence, 497-508.
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Evaluation of free Java-libraries for social-scientific agent based simulation. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 7(1):online.
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Simulation of collective action based on empirical data. In: Hernández, Cesáreo. 2nd Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. Valladolid, Spain: European Social Simulation Association, CD-ROM.
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Who participates in a collective action? A psychologically based simulation with 10,000 agents. In: 2nd Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation, Passau, 2 April 2001 - 4 April 2001, 77-82.
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Die Organisation kollektiver Aktionen durch Beeinflussung der individuellen Teilnahmeentscheidung. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 52(2):264-290.