Shiva Pauer

Biographic Data

ID1905246
NAMEShiva Pauer
GIVEN NAMESShiva
FAMILY NAMEPauer
SIGNATUREPAUER S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-5965-8040
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Feeling Pushed and Feeling Pulled

    Open AccessMiriam Finkhäuser, Vsevolod Scherrer et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2026

    While felt ambivalence is thought to drive behavior change, the dynamics and boundary conditions of this effect have been underspecified. We conducted a panel study ( N = 808 German and Dutch students) in the context of meat consumption and investigated the dynamics of meat-related ambivalence, meat consumption, and moralization over 7 months using Cross-Lagged Panel Models. We expected that omnivores eat less meat when ambivalence pushes them to…

  • The model of ambivalent choice and dissonant commitment

    Open AccessBenjamin Buttlar, Shiva Pauer et al.ARTICLEEuropean Review of Social…2025Cited by: 2References: 147

    Ambivalence and dissonance research provides insights into the experiences and consequences of cognitive conflict. Despite the conceptual overlap between both conflicts, they are typically discussed and applied separately. Based on the notion that ambivalence reflects pre-decisional and dissonance reflects post-decisional conflict, we propose the Model of Ambivalent Choice and Dissonant Commitment (AC/DC model). The AC/DC model outlines that both…

  • Is the Effect of Trust on Risk Perceptions a Matter of Knowledge, Control, and Time? An Extension and Direct-Replication Attempt of Siegrist and Cvetkovich (2000)

    Open AccessShiva Pauer, Bastiaan T Rutjens et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2024

    The complexity of societal risks such as pandemics, artificial intelligence, and climate change may lead laypeople to rely on experts and authorities when evaluating these threats. While Siegrist and Cvetkovich showed that competence-based trust in authorities correlates with perceived societal risks and benefits only when people feel unknowledgeable, recent research has yielded mixed support for this foundational work. To address this discrepanc…

  • Insights into the accuracy of social scientists' forecasts of societal change

    Open AccessThe Forecasting Collaborative, Igor Grossmann et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023Cited by: 3References: 58

  • How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact

    Open AccessIzzy Gainsburg, Shiva Pauer et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2022

    Although many psychologists are interested in making the world a better place through their work, they are often unable to have the impact that they would like. Here, we suggest that both individuals and psychology as a field can better improve human welfare by incorporating ideas from effective altruism, a growing movement whose members aim to do the most good by using science and reason to inform their efforts. In this article, we first briefly…

  • How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact

    Izzy Gainsburg, Shiva Pauer et al.PREPRINT2021

    Although many psychologists are interested in making the world a better place through their work, they are often unable to have the impact that they would like. Here, we suggest that both individuals and psychology as a field can better improve human welfare by incorporating ideas from Effective Altruism, a growing movement whose members aim to do the most good by using science and reason to inform their efforts. In this paper, we first provide a…