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As part of the COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO), a joint project of the University of Erfurt, the Robert Koch Institute, the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA), the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), the Science Media Center, the…

With the "Planetary Health Action Acceptance Study Erfurt" (PHA²SE), a new project has now been starting at the University of Erfurt to investigate the German population's attitude towards climate protection. Under the direction of psychologist…

Cornelia Betsch, Heisenberg Professor of Health Communication at the University of Erfurt, will be honoured with the German Psychology Award 2021. The award, endowed with 10,000 euros, will be presented on 25 November in Berlin.

A new guidebook on vaccination will be published by Gräfe und Unzer on 2 March. In it, authors Nicola Kuhrt, Jan Oude-Aost and Cornelia Betsch explore the pros and cons of vaccination.

Against the background of the current corona virus pandemic, the German Research Foundation (DFG) is setting up an interdisciplinary commission for pandemic research. It has 18 members from all scientific fields, including Cornelia Betsch, Heisenberg…

The state government of Thuringia has announced that it will set up a scientific advisory board this week to advise it on the Corona crisis. The board brings together twelve experts from a wide range of disciplines, including psychologist Prof. Dr.…

Should we introduce compulsory vaccination? We asked this question to Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch from the University of Erfurt as early as 2015 in our "Good Question" series.