Publications by authors named "Carolin-Theresa Ziemer"
Article Synopsis
- The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted various aspects of human life, focusing on public health management through effective communication and behavior change strategies.
- A large dataset of 51,404 individuals from 69 countries was created for the ICSMP COVID-19 project to analyze the social and moral psychology related to public health behaviors during the early pandemic phase (April-June 2020).
- The survey included diverse questions on topics like COVID-19 beliefs, social attitudes, ideologies, health, moral beliefs, personality traits, and demographics, and provides raw and cleaned data along with survey materials and psychometric evaluations.
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe investigated pandemic denial in the general public in Germany after the first wave of COVID-19 in May 2020. Using latent class analysis, we compared patterns of disagreement with claims about (a) the origin, spread, or infectiousness of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and (b) the personal risk from COVID-19 between scientific laypersons ( = 1,575) and scientific experts ( = 128). Two groups in the general public differed distinctively from expert evaluations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChanging collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g.
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