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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Explain and Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
01/2016 - 04/2019 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
201 905 €
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Explain and Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy
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Contested Democracy. Gender, race and sex in US American history
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024 Funding
Gerda Henkel Stiftung:
161 000 €
The project investigates struggles for hegemony and democracy along the lines of gender, race and sex in the form of a conflict history of the USA in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
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Globalisation and Local Knowledge
Project management
Prof. Dr. Susanne Rau Duration
09/2012 - 02/2016 Funding
Several donors
300 000 €
The research project is to be understood as a pilot project, which is intended to comprehensively demonstrate the research potential of the cartographic-geographical "The Gotha Perthes Collection" acquired by the Free State of Thuringia in 2003 for the first time. In addition, it is intended to contribute to the further development of the collection and to establish a virtual map laboratory, the "GlobMapLaboratory".
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Health Games
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
06/2019 - 05/2021 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
340 000 €
In the preceding project "An interdisciplinary approach to explain and overcome vaccine fatigue", the vaccination decision was systematically analysed for the first time as a social interaction on the behavioural level. In three work packages of this follow-up project, we are now building directly on the proven research approach of analyzing social-interactive health decisions through interactive decision tasks (Health Games).
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JITSUVAX. Jiu-jitsu with misinformation in the age of COVID: Using refutation-based learning to enhance vaccine uptake and knowledge among healthcare professionals and the public.
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
04/2021 - 03/2025 Funding
Horizon 2020 (EU):
747 584 €
Vaccine hesitancy—the delay or refusal of vaccination without medical indication—has been cited as a serious threat to global health by the World Health Organization (WHO), attributing it to misinformation on the internet. The WHO has also identified Health Care Professionals (HCPs) as the most trusted influencers of vaccination decisions. JITSUVAX leverages those insights to turn toxic misinformation into a potential asset.
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KEEP Panel Thuringia: Cognitive development of decision-making competence and social participation
Project management
Prof. Dr. Tilmann Betsch Duration
09/2021 - 08/2024 Funding
Freistaat Thüringen:
397 000 €
Tilmann Betsch: In this project we are investigating which developmental steps lead to decision-making competence in complex modern environments, how this can be promoted and which factors determine the cognitive development of decision-making competence from primary school age.
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Optimization with In-process Evaluation of the MMR Decision Support in the Online Service "impfen-info.de" of the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch Duration
09/2015 - 04/2016 Funding
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA):
41 000 €
In this project, the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella vaccination) decision aid is revised according to the scientific standards of the International Patient Decision Aid Collaboration and tested experimentally in laboratory studies. A special focus of the revision is on providing accurate risk information and reducing reactance, i.e. the feeling of being restricted in one's freedom of choice. The aim is to enable users to make a neutral decision process that reflects their individual…
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Pattern-Based Expectations in Macroeconomics
Project management
Prof. Dr. Tobias Rötheli Duration
11/2012 - 11/2015
Tobias Rötheli: This project deals with the collection and modelling of expectations with regard to macroeconomic studies.
Probabilistic Decisions of Children
Project management
Prof. Dr. Tilmann Betsch Duration
10/2013 - 12/2020 Funding
Several donors
592 000 €
At what age and under what conditions do children systematically use probabilistic information in decision-making? How do they use it - as criteria for orienting selective information searches and/or as weights of values in the integration of information? With regard to these questions, the empirical research findings are poor and inconsistent. Against the background of two model classes of decision making (multiple strategy approach vs. connectionist approach) competing assumptions about…
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Research Centre for Contemporary Church History
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Seiler Duration
01/1970
Jörg Seiler: The Research Centre for Contemporary Church History investigates the specific form of Catholicism in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ)/ German Democratic Republic (DDR). It deals with the "double diaspora situation" of Central and East German Catholics.
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Voluntariness and Repatriation. Transnational Processes of Remigration and Repatriation (1960–2000)
Project management
Dr. Florian Wagner Duration
10/2020 - 09/2023
Subproject of the research group "Voluntariness". This subproject investigates the interactions between principles and practices of voluntariness in transnational migration processes between the 1960s and 2000. These interactions are analyzed in light of the remigration and repatriation of labor migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees, chiefly from the Global North to the Global South. I argue that from the 1960s on, a repatriation regime emerged that sought to legitimize its practices by…

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