Olivia Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivia Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivia |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Psychology University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7815-9797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural humility, knowledge, and identity salience when working with sexual and gender minority clients
Divided Perceptions of Risk? A New Online Tool to Study the Many Flavors of Polarization
Polarization has become a major concern in behavioral science and popular media, as it may affect many important areas of life. For instance, how polarized are people's perceptions of risks, such as regarding (not) imposing mitigation measures during a pandemic? Answering this question is surprisingly challenging: Whereas multiple theoretical views of polarization and their respective mathematical operationalizations coexist, the latter are often…
How deep a divide do we tolerate? Measuring the willingness to engage with differently minded others (Wedo)
Fostering contact across political camps is crucial to combat affective polarization and to sustain healthy democratic discourse. Researchers therefore have become increasingly interested in better understanding the factors that promote or hamper political exchange. The present research contributes to this goal by introducing WEDO, a new measure to assess the willingness to engage with differently minded others based on behavioral preferences in …
Affect in science communication
Science communication is evolving: Increasingly, it is directed at the public rather than academic peers. Understanding the circumstances under which the public engages with scientific content is therefore crucial to improving science communication. In this article, we investigate the role of affect on audience engagement with a modern form of science communication: TED Talks on the social media platform YouTube. We examined how two aspects of af…
Motivated Moral Outrage Among Meat-Eaters
Many meat-eaters experience cognitive dissonance when aware that their eating behaviors contradict their moral values, such as desires to protect the environment or animals from harm. One way in which people morally disengage from their behaviors—and thus avoid dissonance—is to displace responsibility onto others. Aligning with this notion, results of three studies (total N = 1,501) suggest that expressing moral outrage at third-party transgresso…
Divided Perceptions of Risk? A New Online Tool to Study the Many Flavors of Polarization
Polarization has become a major concern in behavioral science and popular media, as it may affect many important areas of life. For instance, how polarized are people's perceptions of risks, such as regarding (not) imposing mitigation measures during a pandemic? Answering this question is surprisingly challenging: Whereas multiple theoretical views of polarization and their respective mathematical operationalizations coexist, the latter are often…
Motivated Moral Outrage Among Meat-Eaters
Many meat-eaters experience cognitive dissonance when aware that their eating behaviors contradict their moral values, such as desires to protect the environment or animals from harm. One way in which people morally disengage from their behaviors—and thus avoid dissonance—is to displace responsibility onto others. Aligning with this notion, results of three studies (total N = 1,501) suggest that expressing moral outrage at third-party transgresso…
Affect in science communication
Science communication is evolving: Increasingly, it is directed at the public rather than academic peers. Understanding the circumstances under which the public engages with scientific content is therefore crucial to improving science communication. In this article, we investigate the role of affect on audience engagement with a modern form of science communication: TED Talks on the social media platform YouTube. We examined how two aspects of af…
Cultural humility, knowledge, and identity salience when working with sexual and gender minority clients
Divided Perceptions of Risk? A New Online Tool to Study the Many Flavors of Polarization
Polarization has become a major concern in behavioral science and popular media, as it may affect many important areas of life. For instance, how polarized are people's perceptions of risks, such as regarding (not) imposing mitigation measures during a pandemic? Answering this question is surprisingly challenging: Whereas multiple theoretical views of polarization and their respective mathematical operationalizations coexist, the latter are often…
How deep a divide do we tolerate? Measuring the willingness to engage with differently minded others (Wedo)
Fostering contact across political camps is crucial to combat affective polarization and to sustain healthy democratic discourse. Researchers therefore have become increasingly interested in better understanding the factors that promote or hamper political exchange. The present research contributes to this goal by introducing WEDO, a new measure to assess the willingness to engage with differently minded others based on behavioral preferences in …
Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work) · Cognitive dissonance (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work) · Communication (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)