Carolin‐theresa Ziemer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4395601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolin‐theresa Ziemer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolin‐theresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziemer |
| SIGNATURE | ZIEMER C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Schiller-University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0794-7702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Swayed by the Kremlin? Psychological, Behavioural, and Electoral Correlates of Agreement with Pro-Russian Strategic Narratives in East Germany
Foreign actors often exploit domestic political tensions to influence democratic states, making it important to examine how foreign information campaigns resonate in particularly susceptible regions and populations. In Germany, historical, cultural, and political legacies render the former East German federal states particularly receptive to pro-Kremlin narratives. Drawing on a preregistered survey of 1,308 eligible voters conducted before the 20…
Zone‐flooding, public confusion, and signal detection theory: A theoretical framework and registered report
While historically, the aim of propaganda was to convince the public of a certain agenda, many political commentators contend that modern forms of disinformation come with a different goal in mind: To confuse, rather than convince. It is believed that to secure this goal, informational spaces are diluted, rather than dominated, a strategy termed “zone‐flooding.” The present research provides a unified psychological account of confusion that draws…
Solidarity with Ukraine? How fear- and moral-based motivations explain the psychological tug-of-war in the German public
Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report
Motivated reasoning posits that ideological beliefs and goals bias individuals' information processing particularly regarding socio‐political information. However, most individuals are unaware that ideological bias shapes their perception and judgment making them easy targets for political polarization. This leads to the strong need to address and mitigate this bias. Utilizing an ideological bias task that assesses the degree of expressing one's …
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during …
Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the Covid-19 pandemic
We investigated pandemic denial in the general public in Germany after the first wave of COVID-19 in May 2020. Using latent class analysis, we compared patterns of disagreement with claims about (a) the origin, spread, or infectiousness of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and (b) the personal risk from COVID-19 between scientific laypersons ( N = 1,575) and scientific experts ( N = 128). Two groups in the general public differed distinctively from expert eva…
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during …
Psychological underpinnings of pandemic denial - patterns of disagreement with scientific experts in the German public during the Covid-19 pandemic
We investigated pandemic denial in the general public in Germany after the first wave of COVID-19 in May 2020. Using latent class analysis, we compared patterns of disagreement with claims about (a) the origin, spread, or infectiousness of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and (b) the personal risk from COVID-19 between scientific laypersons ( N = 1,575) and scientific experts ( N = 128). Two groups in the general public differed distinctively from expert eva…
From bias to balance: Testing the effect of feedback on ideological bias expression. A registered report
Motivated reasoning posits that ideological beliefs and goals bias individuals' information processing particularly regarding socio‐political information. However, most individuals are unaware that ideological bias shapes their perception and judgment making them easy targets for political polarization. This leads to the strong need to address and mitigate this bias. Utilizing an ideological bias task that assesses the degree of expressing one's …
Solidarity with Ukraine? How fear- and moral-based motivations explain the psychological tug-of-war in the German public
Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs
Swayed by the Kremlin? Psychological, Behavioural, and Electoral Correlates of Agreement with Pro-Russian Strategic Narratives in East Germany
Foreign actors often exploit domestic political tensions to influence democratic states, making it important to examine how foreign information campaigns resonate in particularly susceptible regions and populations. In Germany, historical, cultural, and political legacies render the former East German federal states particularly receptive to pro-Kremlin narratives. Drawing on a preregistered survey of 1,308 eligible voters conducted before the 20…
Zone‐flooding, public confusion, and signal detection theory: A theoretical framework and registered report
While historically, the aim of propaganda was to convince the public of a certain agenda, many political commentators contend that modern forms of disinformation come with a different goal in mind: To confuse, rather than convince. It is believed that to secure this goal, informational spaces are diluted, rather than dominated, a strategy termed “zone‐flooding.” The present research provides a unified psychological account of confusion that draws…
Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (2 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (2 works) · German (2 works)