Cornelia Betsch

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Cornelia Betsch (* 2. March 1979 in Witten as Cornelia cave ) is a German psychologist and health scientist .

Life

Betsch completed her Abitur in 1998 at the Carl-Benz-Gymnasium in Ladenburg . She went to study at Heidelberg University , where she received a diploma in psychology in 2002 , before starting in 2003 she worked on projects by Klaus Fiedler and Henning Plessner at the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim . Your doctorate as Dr. phil. took place in Heidelberg in 2006 with the dissertation Preference for intuition and deliberation-measurement and consequences of affect-and cognition based decision making . In 2007 she moved to the University of Erfurt , where she worked at the Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Sciences (CEREB). In 2008 she was promoted to temporary academic counselor . Her habilitation with the thesis The role of risk perception and risk communication in prevention decisions using the example of the vaccination decision took place in 2013 in Erfurt. She then taught and researched there as a private lecturer with the rank of temporary academic senior councilor.

Betsch became Heisenberg Professor for Health Communication at the University of Erfurt in 2017 , where she and Constanze Rossmann developed a master’s degree in health communication. Among other things, she conducts research in the field of health communication and social aspects of health decisions, particularly in the context of vaccination and opposition to vaccination . She works with the Federal Center for Health Education , the Robert Koch Institute and the World Health Organization , among others . It is also connected to the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). In addition, she is the founder and member of the GENIA network (health research: Erfurt network for interdisciplinary exchange in research, teaching and practice).

She became known to a wider public through press interviews and reports on the subject of vaccination opposition, on which she did research and was heard as an expert.

Betsch is committed to observing social and behavioral research, including when it comes to legislation, and has written several statements and discussion papers on mandatory vaccination.

Works (selection)

  • Katrine Bach Habersaat et al .: Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition . In: Nature Human Behavior . 2020, doi : 10.1038 / s41562-020-0906-x .
  • with Robert Böhm, Philipp Schmid, et al .: Explain, measure and change vaccination behavior psychologically. In: Bundesgesundheitsblatt , 2019, pp. 1–10.
  • with Eckart von Hirschhausen and Vera Zylka-Menhorn: Vaccination advice in practice: Professional conversation - when talking is worth gold. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt International 2019, 116 (11), A-520.
  • with Robert Böhm: Moral values ​​do not affect prosocial vaccination. In: Nature Human Behavior 2018, 2, pp. 881-882.
  • with Robert Böhm: Detrimental Effects of Introducing Partial Compulsory Vaccination: Experimental Evidence. In: European Journal of Public Health 2016, 26 (3), pp. 378–381.
  • with Robert Böhm. and Gretchen Chapman: Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Vaccination Policy Effectiveness . In: Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2015, 2, pp. 61–73.
  • with Henning Plessner and Tilmann Betsch : Intuition in judgment and decision making. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 2008, ISBN 978-0805857412 .

Web links

  • Cornelia Betsch on the website of the seminar for media and communication studies at the University of Erfurt
  • Cornelia Betsch in the Who is Who of the University of Erfurt (has not been updated since 2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Detailed curriculum vitae on the website of the University of Erfurt (last accessed on July 26, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b Cornelia Betsch in the Who is Who of the University of Erfurt (last accessed on July 26, 2019).
  3. ↑ List of employees on the DZIF website (last accessed on July 26, 2019).
  4. ↑ GENIA network on the website of the University of Erfurt (last accessed on July 26, 2019).
  5. ↑ "inoculated": "So I do not answer questions, work conspiracy theorists" , interview with the TIME of 20 August 2018th
  6. ↑ "Doctors should take doubts seriously, show empathy and clarify" , interview with Die Welt on March 26, 2019.
  7. ↑ Vaccination: Why there are vaccine skeptics , interview with the Apotheken Umschau from November 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ The parents' skepticism about vaccinations: A real dilemma , interview with the FAZ from July 24, 2013.
  9. ↑ Cornelia Betsch: Opinion on the measles protection law as an individual expert. October 17, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  10. ^ German Society for Psychology: Opinion on the draft bill of the measles protection law. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  11. ^ Leopoldina Academy of Sciences: Building protection together. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Betsch, Cornelia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cave, Cornelia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and health scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten