Wilhelm Hofmann
Social Scientist | Social Psychologist | Scientist & Parent for Future | Views my own
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannDas wird immer wieder weltweit bestätigt, hier aktuell bei uns in 🇩🇪: die Mehrheit der Menschen wünscht sich mehr Klimaschutz! Denn wir haben die Lösungen, aber wir verlieren gerade den Wettlauf gegen die Zeit für eine lebenswerte Zukunft. table.media/berlin/news/...
- Reposted by Wilhelm Hofmann⭐ After quite some time in the making, I’m excited to share our new paper!🌿⭐ We examined people's climate-relevant behaviors (driving, air travel, public transport use, and meat consumption) and their perceptions of how feasible it would be to change them (+ expected wellbeing impacts). 🧵(1/4)
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannThis is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
- Further robust evidence suggesting green nudges at the individual level are unlikely to make a difference. As we recently suggested, it is time to abandon the prevailing success focus and rather think of this body of evidence as pointing to the many structural constraints people are facing, and
- New DP @i4replication.bsky.social: Meta-analysis on green nudges correcting for publication bias. "Behavioral interventions on households and individuals are unlikely to deliver material climate benefits." www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
- provide a behavioral perspective which may support policymakers in co-designing effective and fair structural solutions to sustainability problems. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannWondering about how to promote healthy eating in daily life? New research reveals it's not just about willpower, but about which strategy you use, and what you target. 1/9
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannAt the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannIm Bundeskanzleramt zeigte sich beim Behavioural Insights Connect: Wenn Wissenschaft & Politik in den Dialog treten, entstehen neue Wege, um Demokratie wirksam & erfahrbar zu machen. Unsere Policy Ultra Briefs sollen dabei einen nachhaltigen Beitrag zur evidenzbasierten Politikgestaltung leisten. 💬
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannFür Klimaschutz & Austausch: Die DGPs zeigt in einer neuen Handreichung, wie Veranstaltungen nachhaltig gelingen – von Mobilität über Verpflegung bis Abfallreduktion. Präsenz & Ökologie im Einklang 👉 www.dgps.de/schwerpunkte...
- Happy thanks to everyone joining and contributing to #FGSP2025 and safe travels back👋, we hope you had a stimulating time! And thanks so much to @olivergenschow.bsky.social and colleagues at @leuphana.bsky.social for organizing the next biannual meeting🙏 - looking forward to #FGSP2027!
- What a great end of a fantastic #FGSP2025 conference @ruhr-uni-bochum.de organized by @hansalves.bsky.social and @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social. We will give our best to organize a similarly good #FGSP3027 conference in Lüneburg @leuphana.bsky.social in 2 years.
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannWelcome to Bochum everyone! 🩷 We’re thrilled to see so many of you at the 19th conference of the Social Psychology Section — ready to share ideas, connect, and maybe even fall in love with a little brutalist concrete charm 🧱✨ #FGSP2025
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannWe always get asked, "What can I *personally* do to help address climate change?" Sadly, there hasn't been a very good answer to this question. Previous guides often treated people as monoliths, giving them a one-size-fits-all answer. But that's changed now. Enter SHIFT. jointheshift.earth
- We are getting ready for 3 days of #FGSP2025 at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de with > 300 contributions! looking forward to learning about the latest research in social psych - safe travels to Bochum everyone!🚄
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannReview alert 🚨 What motivates collective action for the environment? 🔎🌍 We reviewed 27 publications to identify the proximal predictors of environmental collective action. Here are our key findings:
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannWe're hiring TWO social psychologists (one health, one any area of social) at U of Utah! Pls share widely, and reach out if you have any questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...
- Reposted by Wilhelm Hofmann📢Öffentliches Wissenschaftsevent @ruhr-uni-bochum.de Psychologische Einblicke in Verschwörungserzählungen Mit @rolandimhoff.bsky.social, @pialamberty.bsky.social, @lpummerer.bsky.social, @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social & Bianca Liebrand Bergbau-Museum Bochum 14.9.25, 18:00 Tickets: 5€ tinylink.net/VbOF9
- 🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption. Details here: PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7... Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...
- 📢 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
- Igniting a fire in a wet environment is hard, isn't it? 🔥🌧️ Likewise, even the best-designed interventions struggle in everyday settings where choice environments are structurally misaligned with policy goals, such as in areas like reducing obesity or carbon emissions.
- We propose a more holistic view-one that recognizes the diagnostic potential and policy relevance of unsuccessful behavioral interventions. When behavior change fails despite good design, it often points to deeper structural constraints. These failures may justify stronger, systemic policy measures.
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View full thread🙌Big thanks to an amazing team: @corneliabetsch.bsky.social, @robertboehm.bsky.social, Denise de Ridder, Stefan Drews, @bewert.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig, @fsniehotta.bsky.social, & Jutta Mata full-text view-only-link here: rdcu.be/ex8hR
- 📣Wisskomm-Interessierte in Bochum und Umgebung aufgepasst: dieses öffentliche Wissenschafts-Event zu Verschwörungserzählungen im Rahmen der Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie solltet ihr euch nicht entgehen lassen! #FGSP2025
- Am 14. September gibt es in Bochum eine Abendrevue zu Verschwörungserzählungen, die ich mit @pialamberty.bsky.social und @lpummerer.bsky.social gestalte unter Mitwirkung von @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social und sekten-info-nrw.de. Tickets sind begrenzt und unter dem Link bestellbar.
- 🪧New Preprint led by @saschakuhn.bsky.social on the connection between climate policy support and macro- (country-level) variation in e.g., economic freedom, per capita emissions, income inequality, and climate vulnerability, building on data from the Many Labs Climate Project!
- 🧵New preprint out: How do macro-level structures shape public acceptance of climate policies? We explore this question using the ICPC #ManyLabs data across 63 countries. Beyond individual beliefs, how do structural conditions like inequality, fossil dependence, or neoliberalism shape support? [1/]
- Reposted by Wilhelm Hofmann10 days left to apply to join #HPGVienna @univie.ac.at ⬇️ perfect position for a post-PhD ambulatory assessment/ ecological momentary assessment resesrcher with an interest in determinants of health behaviours and #digitalhealth! #PsychJobs #HealthPsych #BehSci #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannSchade, dass wir uns mehr Klimaschutz nicht leisten können, weil dafür muss erst die Wirtschaft laufen, und die läuft halt nicht so gut, unter anderem, weil es mit dem Klima nicht so läuft.
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannDas Deutschlandticket ist für viele junge Menschen zu teuer geworden – das zeigt der deutliche Rückgang bei den Abo-Zahlen. Dabei war das Ticket ein großer Erfolg: Es hat Bus und Bahn auch für Auszubildende, Studierende und Menschen mit geringem Einkommen bezahlbar gemacht. (1/3)
- 🪧New preprint out: "Politicians underestimate support for climate action even more than the general public" osf.io/preprints/os... Pluralistic ignorance - citizens underestimating others' climate concerns - is well documented. But what about policymakers in office?🏛️🤔 A short thread 🧵
- What did we do? First, we collected representative data on citizens' actual support for various policy measures (information, taxes, laws) to combat climate change.🌍 To test for pluralistic ignorance, we then asked these same citizens how much support they think there is for such measures.
- 🏛️Finally, we asked >1,500 policymakers from Germany - from the federal, state, and municipal levels - the same question regarding their perceived support. This allowed us to compare: 1️⃣Actual public support with 2️⃣Citizens' estimates of public support and 3️⃣Policymakers’ estimates of public support
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View full threadJointly with fabulous Timur Sevincer, Luisa Hostlowsky, and Fenja Styhler from Leuphana University Lüneburg 📝 preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... We hope these findings inform efforts to close the perception–policy gap in climate governance. #ClimatePolicy #BehavioralScience #PluralisticIgnorance
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- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannWir haben 1.014 Bürgergeldbeziehende befragt – als Gegengewicht zu einer Politik, die lieber über statt mit Menschen spricht. Die Ergebnisse haben wir heute auf der BPK vorgestellt. Hier geht es zur Aufzeichnungen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck_t...
- An amazing, much needed resource!
- I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
- 🌍 When and why do people—and policymakers—recognize the structural roots of unsustainable consumption and support systemic solutions to fight climate change? Thrilled and grateful to explore structural influences and policy support in my new ERC Advanced Grant (SUSCON). #ERCadG #BehavioralScience
- 📣 Good news: 281 top researchers have just won ERC Advanced Grants! The new funding, worth nearly €721 million, is part of the 🇪🇺 EU’s #HorizonEurope programme. Find out more 👉 europa.eu/!JYKxkD #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch @ec.europa.eu
- 📣 Excited to share our new preprint: "Measuring Perceived Structural Constraints on Choice: The Structural Awareness Scale" (SAS) osf.io/preprints/os... We developed SAS to capture how people perceive 🧱 structural barriers on their choices in areas such as sustainability or healthy eating.
- In doing so, we were guided by the idea that people may - to varying extent - infer structural constraints from observable cues such as (low) availability, accessibility, affordability, normativity and the influence of systemic agents on choice. 👀 The final result was a 13-item scale.
- Across four studies, we validated the scale in two domains. SAS showed good internal consistency and was meaningfully related to policy support and related variables, and distinct from individualizing constructs such as trait self-control or self-efficacy.
- Hopefully useful for folks interested in structural barriers/policy support!🌎 Ping @kristiansn89.bsky.social @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social @corneliabetsch.bsky.social @madalina.bsky.social @kimdoell.bsky.social @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social Big thanks @saschakuhn.bsky.social and Heiko Mikolajzcak🙌
- Reposted by Wilhelm Hofmann🧠🌍 Can you correct misperceptions of the impact of different climate actions? In a new @pnasnexus.org paper, we tested whether climate action literacy interventions can shift behavioral commitments toward more effective climate actions. Check out our neat results 🙂 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
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- Reposted by Wilhelm Hofmann⚡Calling all environmental researchers and members of the climate movement - big news! ⚡ We’ve just released our new book, The Psychology of Collective Climate Action - and it’s Open Access! You can download the book from Routledge or on our Wandelwerk page: www.wandel-werk.org/en/materialien
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannKanzler Merz sagte letztens, eine Partei müsse »›aggressiv kämpferisch‹ gegen die freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung« arbeiten, um verboten werden zu können. Warum das nicht stimmt - und auch Innenminister Dobrindt falsch liegt bei den Bedingungen fürs AfD-Verbot:
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannThere is a new Executive Order that is closely related to many of the topics promoted in the science reform movement. It deserves a close read as it will surely have implications for how some promoted reforms are implemented in policy and practice. My hot take 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannThe landmark Handbook of Social Psychology's sixth edition is now available - and open access for the first time! It features 50 chapters from 50+ scholars. Learn more + download it today: ow.ly/RPjn50VV8bT
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannHot off the press! Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability? Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed: openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...
- 📣very thrilled to see the new, open access (!) edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology is now online! With 50 chapters, this is an amazing collective effort brought to everyone by @danielgilbert.bsky.social, Susan Fiske, @elijfinkel.bsky.social, and Wendy Mendes and Situational Press. 👏🎉🙏
- and hosted by Princeton University Library🙏
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannGenau dieses Leistungs-Gerede ist leistungsfeindlich. Weil es nämlich einen großen Teil der Leistungen ausblendet. Abseits bezahlter Arbeitszeit wird nicht bloß herumgelegen und gefaulenzt. Da werden auch Kinder erzogen, Kranke gepflegt, Kultur geschaffen, Ideen entwickelt. (Thread)
- Reposted by Wilhelm Hofmann🚨 JOB! Full professorship (W3) in Personality Psychology / Interindividual Differences & Psychological Assessment at Uni Bremen. I hold the "sister professorship" is social psych & very much recommend this post. Please apply, share widely & don't hestiate to ask me! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannAs grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannHat man im Wahlkampf irgendwie nicht gemerkt: Der Anteil der Menschen, die das Thema Umwelt- und Klimaschutz sehr wichtig finden, ist höher als jener, die das über das Thema Zuwanderung sagen. (Und auch die Plätze 1 und 2 sind interessant.)
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannCongress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannDie AfD ist jetzt insgesamt gesichert rechtsextrem. Viele sagten, es wäre Zeit für ein AfD-Verbot, wenn dieser Fall eintritt. Wenn du das jetzt auch fordern möchtest, hier geht es zur Petition: innn.it/AfDVerbot
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannEin AfD-Verbot ist das Gebot der Stunde #Kommentar #AfD
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannParis definitely wasn’t always this way. This is all pretty recent. And the change wasn’t magic, or even all that hard. It just took a clear vision and determined leadership. Your city could choose leadership too if it actually wanted to. Great pic via @jbpssx.bsky.social
- "This message of collective responsibility is one our current economic and political system works hard to suppress by championing unlimited freedom to consume, while ignoring the loss of freedom that such behaviour causes"
- I wrote a piece for @theconversation.com about how space tourism drives climate breakdown - well beyond any emissions from the rocket itself. Celebrities and other leaders have huge potential to catalyse climate action, but not like this... theconversation.com/why-katy-per...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannFour large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannGary Kasparov on Russia 20 yrs ago: "Putin’s bad, but surely he’ll stop short of—and you can fill in the blank with a dozen things he did to destroy Russia’s fragile democracy and civil society, many of which Trump is doing or attempting to do in America today." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannToday's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."
- This executive order confirms that. They are attacking all "state laws" that address climate change, ESG, environmental justice and/or greenhouse gases. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannThey are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests
- Reposted by Wilhelm Hofmann🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannDGPs und FTPS empfehlen mehr psychologische Expertise in der Politik: Sieben Positionen für bessere Integration, psychische Gesundheit, gesunde Arbeit, Klimaschutz und mehr. 👉 Jetzt lesen: www.dgps.de/aktuelles/de...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannPhD opening in Environmental Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannA really good 6 minute interview to watch. The dangers and perils of #climatechange have not gone away just because the US government under new administration has chosen to "disengage" #ClimateCrisis
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannJust over one week left to apply for this year's Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality! Applications close midnight (Berlin time) next Sunday, March 9, 2025, so don't delay if you want to take part in an unforgettable experience this summer in Berlin! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannWith just 5 years to go, the world is failing on the Global Biodiversity Framework to conserve and restore biodiversity. "In fact, we're actively destroying biodiversity faster than ever in human history." theconversation.com/with-just-5-... Paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🌏🌐🧪#bioinvasions
- Reposted by Wilhelm Hofmann"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannWählen gehen! Nächste Regierung entscheidet, ob Deutschland gestärkt aus Klimakrise hervorgeht – oder ins Abseits gerät Klimaschutz bedeutet nicht nur weniger CO2, sondern soziale Gerechtigkeit, wirtschaftliche Stärke u Sicherheit Gastbeitrag www.focus.de/earth/die-wa... @newclimate.bsky.social
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannHow many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannHere are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannVideos mit Falschbehauptungen zur Bundestagswahl erreichen auf Tiktok Millionen. Wir haben 200 Fälle gemeldet, aber Tiktok handelt kaum und undurchsichtig. Mit seinem Umgang mit Meldungen verstößt Tiktok mutmaßlich gegen EU-Recht. correctiv.org/faktencheck/...
- Reposted by Wilhelm HofmannNach Recherchen von CORRECTIV hat eine russische Desinformationskampagne vor der Bundestagswahl rund 100 Fake-Nachrichtenseiten eingerichtet. Ihr Zweck: den Wahlkampf beeinflussen. In mehreren Fällen wurden sie bereits für Attacken auf Politiker genutzt. correctiv.org/faktencheck/...
- Reposted by Wilhelm Hofmann"Klimaschutz ist wie gesagt eine Jahrhundertaufgabe. Und ich würde mir von der neuen Bundesregierung wünschen, dass sie gemeinsam mit allen in der Gesellschaft und über alle demokratischen Parteien hinweg einen Gesamtkonsens hinbekommt." Was @niklashoehne.bsky.social sagt.
