The Annual report of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour where we are a part of with our project in Area A " Individuell and collective appetite" is online now. The review summarizes all accomplishments in research, engagement, infrastructure, membership, grants and awards for the past 2 years of the DFG-funded Excellence Initiative.

Public health campaigns often encourage people to increase the consumption of vegetables and fruits while limiting sugar, fat, and salt intake. Furthermore, recent approaches increasingly suggest accumulating small behavioral shifts to change eating behavior. However, when individuals actually do notice a positive change in their diet behavior has rarely been studied to date. Accordingly, the present research examined the relationship between felt and actual changes in healthy food intake.

Psychological views on aging – our notions about aging, old age, and older people – are the topic of a special section of the December issue of the European Journal of Ageing (EJA). The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly amplified the timeliness of the research: Older people have been mostly regarded as one, barely differentiated risk group, as vulnerable, helpless, and in need of society’s protection.

Wunsch, K., Eckert, T., Fiedler, J., Cleven, L., Niermann, C., Reiterer, H., Renner., B., & Woll, A. (2020) Effects of a collective family-based mobile health intervention called “SMARTFAMILY” on promoting physical activity and healthy eating: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Publications, 9(11), e20534. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/20534

"Den Optimismus bewahren"

Die Corona-Regeln und -Maßnahmen ändern sich, je nach aktuellem Infektionsgeschehen. Da ist es gar nicht so leicht seinen Alltag zu planen. Gesundheitspsychologin Britta Renner sieht darin eine steigende Belastung für Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Den Optimismus sollte man deshalb trotzdem nicht verlieren. Sie unterrichtet an der Universität Konstanz.

Wir gratulieren Dr. Martin Imhof aus unserem RiskDynamics Team zum Wissenschaftspreis der Werner und Erika Messmer-Stiftung für seine neurowissenschaftliche Forschung im Projekt RiskDynamics.

Weitere Infos: www.uni-konstanz.de/diesacademicus/dies-academicus-2010-2020/dies-academicus-2020/

„Was wir wissen – Diskurse und Orientierung in der Corona-Pandemie"

How often and why do people miss to log their food when using a mobile food app? Insight from 3 EMA studies assessing how often eating events (meals and snacks) were missed over a period of 8 days in a naturalistic setting by comparing the number of recorded events with the number of normative expected events, over time, and with recollections of missing events show highly stable logging trajectories over time and low rates of missing events.

We are very pleased to see the work of Harald Schupp's lab in collaboration with our research group featured in The Washington Post article "Why human brains are bad at assessing the risks of pandemics".

Debbeler, L. J., Wahl, D. R., Villinger, K. & Renner, B. (2020). Die Bedeutung der Gesundheitskommunikation in der Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung. In: M. Tiemann & M. Mohokum (Hrsg.), Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung (S. 1-11). Berlin, Deutschland: Springer. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55793-8_13-1