Peter Schmid

Datos Biográficos

ID627778
NOMBREPeter Schmid
NOMBRESPeter
APELLIDOSchmid
FIRMASCHMID P
AFILIACIONESUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0003-2966-0806
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS54
TOTAL DE CITAS381
TOTAL COMO AUTOR54
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1953
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H12

  • Implications for Geography Education from Research on Climate Change Misinformation – A Systematic Review

    Open AccessNeli Heidari, Marvin Schlamelcher et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Geography2026

    Climate change misinformation poses a significant challenge to public understanding of climate science and to education systems as it undermines trust in science and the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. Geography education, positioned at the intersection of human-environment-relations and socio-scientific issues, plays a crucial role in addressing this challenge. However, there is a gap in geography education research regardi…

  • Impact of Exposure to Health Misinformation on Belief in Health Misinformation

    Open AccessPeter Schmid, Hannah BauerARTICLEHealth Communication2026

    Health authorities have labeled health misinformation a major global health threat and academic scholars consider exposure to health misinformation a barrier to an individual’s informed decision-making. However, quantitative evaluations of the persuasive impact of exposure to health misinformation produced mixed results. This study uses a meta-analytic approach to analyze the average impact of health misinformation across studies and explore pote…

  • Influenza and pneumococcal vaccine hesitancy in the elderly population

    Open AccessDorothee Heinemeier, Peter Schmid et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Deutsches Register Klinische Studien (German Clinical Trials Register) DRKS00012653. Registered 24.11.2017. Retrospectively registered

  • Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

    Open AccessDaniel Toribio-Florez, Marlene Altenmüller et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social…2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 77

    Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react to injustice as a victim, i.e., victim justice sensitivity (VJS). Data from two German samples (Ns = 370, 373) indicated a positive association between VJS and conspiracy mentality beyond conceptually related c…

  • Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries

    Open AccessViktoria Cologna, Niels G Mede et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Citada por: 7Referencias: 76

    Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…

  • Using Behavioral Science for Infodemic Preparedness

    Open AccessPeter SchmidARTICLEPolicy Insights from the…2024

    Health authorities aim to address misinformation within the framework of pandemic preparedness. Research reviewed here helps to contain vaccination misinformation: detect relevant parameters for an effective response, reduce individuals’ belief, and prevent its spread. The reviewed measures range from text-based campaign materials to real-time rebuttals of science deniers to empathy-based corrections in physician-patient conversations. The measur…

  • Testing Psychological Inoculation to Reduce Reactance to Vaccine-Related Communication

    Open AccessLinda C Karlsson, Karl O Mäki et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2024

    Research has found that vaccine-promoting messages can elicit state reactance (i.e., negative emotions in response to a perceived threat to behavioral freedom), especially among individuals with high trait reactance (i.e., proneness to experiencing reactance). This can result in a lower willingness to accept vaccines. We investigated whether inoculation against reactance – that is, forewarning individuals about potentially experiencing reactance …

  • Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

    Open AccessAnastasia Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024Citada por: 12Referencias: 73

  • To disclose or not to disclose? Factors related to the willingness to disclose information to a Covid-19 tracing app

    Moritz Jörling, Sarah Eitze et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2023

    Contact-tracing apps have been identified as a promising technology to curb the spread of COVID-19. To be effective, a sufficient number of individuals need to install the app and disclose information like COVID-19 infection to such an app. Yet, usage data demonstrate that a large number of app users does not disclose COVID-19 infection to the app. Hence, in two studies (overall N = 1522), we investigate factors related to individuals’ willingnes…

  • A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling

    Open AccessAngelo Fasce, Peter Schmid et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023

  • Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor

    Open AccessDawn Liu Holford, Angelo Fasce et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 35

    Effective science communication is challenging when scientific messages are informed by a continually updating evidence base and must often compete against misinformation. We argue that we need a new program of science communication as collective intelligence—a collaborative approach, supported by technology. This would have four key advantages over the typical model where scientists communicate as individuals: scientific messages would be inform…

  • Benefits and Pitfalls of Debunking Interventions to Counter mRNA Vaccination Misinformation During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessPeter Schmid, Cornelia BetschARTICLEScience Communication2022Citada por: 3Referencias: 55

    Misinformation about mRNA vaccination is a barrier in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, authorities often rely on text-based refutations as a countermeasure. In two experiments ( N = 2,444), text-based refutations effectively reduced the belief in misinformation and immunized participants against the impact of a misleading social media post. However, a follow-up ( N = 817) questions the longevity of these debunking and prebunk…

  • When Science Becomes Embroiled in Conflict

    Open AccessLewandowsky, Stephan Lewandowsky et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2022Citada por: 4Referencias: 69

    We explore the common attributes of political conflicts in which scientific findings have a central role, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, but also drawing on long-standing conflicts over climate change and vaccinations. We analyze situations in which the systematic spread of disinformation or conspiracy theories undermines public trust in the work of scientists and prevents policy from being informed by the best available evidence. W…

  • Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessCornelia Betsch, Lars Korn et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2020

    Mandatory and voluntary mask policies may have yet unknown social and behavioral consequences related to the effectiveness of the measure, stigmatization, and perceived fairness. Serial cross-sectional data (April 14 to May 26, 2020) from nearly 7,000 German participants demonstrate that implementing a mandatory policy increased actual compliance despite moderate acceptance; mask wearing correlated positively with other protective behaviors. A pr…

  • Victimization of People With Severe Mental Illness Outside and Within the Mental Health Care System

    Open AccessVerena Rossa-Roccor, Peter Schmid et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    We performed a cross-sectional study using a self-reporting survey to assess lifetime violent and non-violent victimization in people with severe mental illness experienced both inside (i.e., any service providing mental health care such as psychiatric hospitals, psychosocial rehabilitative programs, or outpatient care) and outside (i.e., in the personal life of the participants) of the mental health care system. We recruited 170 participants fro…

  • Ten considerations for effectively managing the Covid-19 transition

    Open AccessKatrine Bach Habersaat, Cornelia Betsch et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2020Citada por: 13Referencias: 130

    Governments around the world have implemented measures to manage the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). While the majority of these measures are proving effective, they have a high social and economic cost, and response strategies are being adjusted. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that communities should have a voice, be informed and engaged, and participate in this transition phase. We propose ten considerations…

  • Effective strategies for rebutting science denialism in public discussions

    Open AccessPeter Schmid, Cornelia BetschARTICLENature Human Behaviour2019Citada por: 15Referencias: 49

  • Homo naledi cranial remains from the Lesedi chamber of the rising star cave system, South Africa

    Open AccessDarryl J De Ruiter, M F Laird et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2019Citada por: 3Referencias: 20

  • Beyond confidence

    Open AccessCornelia Betsch, Peter Schmid et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2018

    BACKGROUND: Monitoring the reasons why a considerable number of people do not receive recommended vaccinations allows identification of important trends over time, and designing and evaluating strategies to address vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine uptake. Existing validated measures assessing vaccine hesitancy focus primarily on confidence in vaccines and the system that delivers them. However, empirical and theoretical work has stated that…

  • Increasing influenza and pneumococcal vaccine uptake in the elderly

    Open AccessCornelia Betsch, Constanze Rossmann et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    DRKS00012653 . Registered 24.11.2017. Retrospectively registered

  • New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa

    Open AccessJohn Hawks, M Elliott et al.ARTICLEeLife2017

    The Rising Star cave system has produced abundant fossil hominin remains within the Dinaledi Chamber, representing a minimum of 15 individuals attributed to Homo naledi. Further exploration led to the discovery of hominin material, now comprising 131 hominin specimens, within a second chamber, the Lesedi Chamber. The Lesedi Chamber is far separated from the Dinaledi Chamber within the Rising Star cave system, and represents a second depositional …

  • The vertebrae and ribs of Homo naledi

    Open AccessA Williams, Scott A Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2017Citada por: 27Referencias: 65

  • The skull of Homo naledi

    Open AccessM F Laird, Lauren Schroeder et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2017Citada por: 30Referencias: 45

  • The upper limb of Homo naledi

    Open AccessElen M Feuerriegel, David J Green et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2017Citada por: 48Referencias: 62

  • Author response

    L R Berger, John Hawks et al.Citada por: 1

    Article Figures and data Abstract eLife digest Introduction Differential diagnosis Description Discussion Materials and methods References Decision letter Author response Article and author information Metrics Abstract Homo naledi is a previously-unknown species of extinct hominin discovered within the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. This species is characterized by body mass and stature similar…