Publications

(Note that publications appear under my name before marriage)

The Connection between Subjective Wellbeing and Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Individual and Cross-National Characteristics in a Seven-Country Study

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Exploring the Influence of Goals at Different Levels of Abstraction on Self-Reported and Electronically Measured Exercise Frequency: An Experimental Field Study

Public Perceptions of Climate Change in the Peruvian Andes

How people subjectively perceive climate change strongly influences how they respond to its challenges. To date, relatively little is …
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How Personal Experience Affects Perception of and Decisions Related to Climate Change: A Psychological View

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Understanding the Psychological Distance of Climate Change: The Limitations of Construal Level Theory and Suggestions for Alternative Theoretical Perspectives

Many perceive climate change to be more relevant to distant places, future times, and other people than to the here and now and …
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Social Identity and Risk Perception Explain Participation in the Swiss Youth Climate Strikes

Since late 2018, young people around the world have united to demand greater action on climate change. Aside from their stated concerns …
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Making New Year's Resolutions That Stick: Exploring How Superordinate and Subordinate Goals Motivate Goal Pursuit

Background New Year’s Eve is a time when people make resolutions, but, more often than not, fail to achieve them. Previous …
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Conformity within the Campbell Paradigm

. Conformity – people’s propensity to comply with the norms and expectations of others – is an important driver of behavior. In …
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Using a Goal Theoretical Perspective to Reduce Negative and Promote Positive Spillover after a Bike-to-Work Campaign

Behavioral change interventions often focus on a specific behavior over a limited time period; for example, a bike-to-work intervention …
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The Role of Attitude Strength in Behavioral Spillover: Attitude Matters— but Not Necessarily as a Moderator

Studies on how one behavior affects subsequent behaviors find evidence for two opposite trends: Sometimes a first behavior increases …
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Cambio climático y percepciones en comunidades andinas quechuahablantes

Adolescents' Perceptions of the Psychological Distance to Climate Change, Its Relevance for Building Concern about It, and the Potential for Education

One of the greatest challenges of this century is climate change. Unfortunately, it is still unclear how to motivate people to engage …
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Spatial Framing, Existing Associations and Climate Change Beliefs

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How Focusing on Superordinate Goals Motivates Broad, Long-Term Goal Pursuit: A Theoretical Perspective

Goal-setting theory states that challenging, specific, and concrete goals (i.e., subordinate goals) are powerful motivators and boost …
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Naturbewusstsein Psychologisch: Was Ist Naturbewusstsein, Wie Misst Man Es Und Wie Wirkt Es Auf Umweltschutzverhalten?

In der Naturbewusstseinsstudie 2011 „werden unter Naturbewusstsein subjektive Auffassungen von Natur und Einstellungen zur Natur …
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``Proximising'' Climate Change Reconsidered: A Construal Level Theory Perspective

Reducing the psychological distance of climate change has repeatedly been proposed as one strategy to increase individuals' motivation …
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Psychological Responses to the Proximity of Climate Change

A frequent suggestion to increase individuals' willingness to take action on climate change and to support relevant policies is to …
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Hand in Hand: Public Endorsement of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

This research investigated how an individual’s endorsements of mitigation and adaptation relate to each other, and how well each …
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Worksite Tobacco Prevention: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Adoption, Dissemination Strategies, and Aggregated Health-Related Outcomes across Companies

Evidence based public health requires knowledge about successful dissemination of public health measures. This study analyses (a) the …
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Appreciation of Nature and Appreciation of Environmental Protection: How Stable Are These Attitudes and Which Comes First?

AbstractIntroduction Attitude toward nature and attitude toward environmental protection are two separate but correlated attitudes. …
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Completed Egoism and Intended Altruism Boost Healthy Food Choices

Based on the self-licensing literature and goal theory, we expected and found that completed (im)moral actions lead to markedly …
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Environmental Protection and Nature as Distinct Attitudinal Objects: An Application of the Campbell Paradigm

In environmental psychology, many researchers have apparently placed appreciation of nature and appreciation of environmental …
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Fear Appeals and Localising Climate Change: Neither Is a Panacea to Motivate Action on Climate Change

One for All? Connectedness to Nature, Inclusion of Nature, Environmental Identity, and Implicit Association with Nature

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Gestufte Verbreitungsstrategien Am Beispiel Der Integration von Tabakprävention in Ein Umfassendes Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement

Actions Speak Louder than Words

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Worksite Tobacco Prevention in the Canton of Zurich: Stages of Change, Predictors, and Outcomes

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Developing Strategies for Waste Reduction by Means of Tailored Interventions in Santiago de Cuba

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