Research Grants

The role of moral heuristics in the reception of fragile and conflicting evidence concerning societal risks. DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm ‚Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit‘. (Research project funded under the priority program 'science and the public' by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.) Period of funding: July 2011 to June 2013 (together with Prof. Dr. Hans-Rüdiger Pfister, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany).

Communicating controversial societal risks: An international comparison of the public discourse about climate change and gene technology.
Research project funded by Meltzer Foundation (Bergen, Norway), 2011-2012.

What motivates green behaviors –consequences or morality?
Research project funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, 2011.

Self-efficacy and sustainable consumption: Evaluating a video intervention that illustrates how consumers can contribute to sustainable development.
Research project funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, 2010.

Promoting sustainable decision-making in everyday purchase situations.
Research project funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, 2009.

Knowing what we have chosen: The phenomenon of choice blindness - its mechanisms and applications.
Research project funded by Meltzer Foundation (Bergen, Norway), 2008-2009.

Sustainability in everyday purchase decisions.
Research project funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, 2008.

Seeing less when feeling more: The influence of pupil dilation and emotions on information acquisition
Research project funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, 2007 (together with Dr. Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck).

Anticipating reactions to environmental changes and the influence of anticipated emotions on environmental behavior
Research project funded under the priority program 'human dimensions of global change' by the German National Science Foundation (DFG; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
Grant Bo 1480/1-3. Period of funding: May 2000 to September 2002. 
Principal investigators: Dr. Gisela Böhm & Prof. H. Jörg Henning.

Causal knowledge, ethical evaluation, and emotions as determinants of risk judgments 
Research project funded under the priority program 'human dimensions of global change' by the German National Science Foundation (DFG; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
Grant He 1449/2-2. Period of funding: May 1997 to April 2000. 
Principal investigators: Dr. Gisela Böhm & Prof. H. Jörg Henning.

Causal knowledge about risk: Identifying causal knowledge structures about global environmental change and their influence on risk perception
Research project funded under the priority program 'human dimensions of global change' by the German National Science Foundation (DFG; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
Grant He 1449/2-1. Period of funding: April 1994 to March 1997. 
Principal investigators: Prof. H. Jörg Henning & Dr. Gisela Böhm.


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Other research support

Start-up fund. Meltzer Foundation (Bergen, Norway) and Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, 2006.

Priming moral orientation via the scrambled sentence test.
One-year half-time student stipend (student: Camilla Løvvik). Funded by the 
Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, academic year 2006 – 2007.

The role of emotions in teaching, learning and achievement settings.
Funded by the University of
Dortmund, fiscal year 2003.

20_online: Development of semi-virtual university classes.
Funded by the eLearning-Initiative of the University for Pedagogics, Ludwigsburg, summer semester 2003 (together with Gabriela Baum and Dr. Michaela Gläser-Zikuda).

20_online: Development of semi-virtual university classes.
Funded by the eLearning-Initiative of the University for Pedagogics, Ludwigsburg, w
inter semester 2002/2003 (together with Gabriela Baum).

The cognitive representation of genetic modification: Knowledge and evaluations.
Study in the project ‚Chances and risks of genetic engineering as seen by the public’ (commercial research, orderer: Akademie für Technikfolgenabschätzung Baden-Württemberg; Academy for technology impact assessment), spring 1997 – winter 1998.

International comparison of customer satisfaction.
Commercial research (orderer: Ethicon Endo Surgery), spring 1997.

Field-experimental study investigating price range.
Commercial research (orderer: Eduscho Coffee), winter 1995 / 1996.


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