Susanne Huber
Biographic Data
| ID | 73600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Huber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Huber |
| SIGNATURE | HUBER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8196-5207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Genetic and Phenotypic Associations of the Polygenic Score of Delay Discounting and Life History Traits
Interdisziplinäre Pornografie-Forschung im deutschsprachigen Raum
Dieser Praxisbeitrag gibt Einblick in die Vernetzungserfahrungen einer Gruppe von 20 Forschenden aus zwölf verschiedenen geistes-, kultur-, natur-, human-, sozial- und gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Gemeinsam verbindet sie das Ziel, die interdisziplinäre Pornografieforschung voranzutreiben – eine Forschung, die angesichts aktueller technischer und digitaler Entwicklungen, gesellschaftlicher und politischer …
Religious and Spiritual Changes After Near-Death Experience
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are profound psychological events known to catalyze significant spiritual transformation, though most research has been conducted in Western contexts. This study investigated perceived changes in spirituality or religiosity following NDEs among adults residing in Jakarta, Indonesia (N = 402 NDErs; 70% female; Mage = 23, SD = 7.93). This population is crucial as spirituality or religiosity are deeply intertwined yet u…
Evaluating AI-Assisted Deductive Coding in MAXQDA
This study presents a structured evaluation of the methodological potential and limitations of using AI-assisted deductive coding in qualitative content analysis, drawing on newly integrated AI coding features in the qualitative data analysis software MAXQDA. Our approach takes a pragmatic stance, positioning AI coding as a promising emerging tool requiring careful methodological consideration for its effective integration into existing workflows…
Experiences of Transcendence and the “Invisible Religion”
In his classic “Invisible Religion” Thomas Luckmann has already provided a basic critique of secularization theories and their focus on church oriented religion. Against the backdrop of the ongoing claim of the secularization of Western societies the paper presents results of the international survey ‘Religion Monitor’. It is based on a proposal referring to a multidimensional model of religiosity, which includes the experience of transcendence, …
Faith at the Edge of Life
Near-death experiences (NDEs) encompass transformative existential experiences that lead to religious change. Although most previous research focused primarily on Western contexts, there remains less understanding of individuals' interpretations of NDEs in pluralistic societies such as the Philippines. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study examined the relationship between NDEs and spiritual transformation in a sample of 683 Filipino adults …
Demography leads to more conservative European societies
Using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (a total of 66,188 participants from 15 European countries) and the European Gender and Generation Survey (a total of 121,248 participants from 12 countries), we investigated i) whether differences in political attitudes and attitudes toward family values (i.e. attitudes toward homosexual couples, attitudes toward female reproduction) are associated with differences in the average number…
Increasing pressure on US men for income in order to find a spouse
In contemporary societies, social status - especially income - is one of the most important determinants of ever marrying among men. Using U.S. census data, we estimated the importance of income for ever marrying among men and women, analyzing birth cohorts from 1890 to 1973. We examined individuals between the ages of 45 and 55, a total of 3.5 million men and 3.6 million women. We find that for men, the importance of income in predicting ever be…
Stone, Peter
Stone, Peter: Stone on Private International Law in the European Union. Fourth Edition. - Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar 2018. XCVIII, 862 pp. (Elgar European Law and Practice.)
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating
Religiosity and Spirituality of German-Speaking Pilgrims on the Way of St. James
The article examines the intensity and structure of religiosity and spirituality of German-speaking foot and bicycle pilgrims on the Way of St. James within the framework of a multidimensional model of religiosity. The following nine aspects are distinguished: religious questions, faith, religious and spiritual identity, worship, prayer, meditation, monistic and dualistic religious experiences. Data of N=425 German-speaking pilgrims of the Way of…
The Evolutionary Biology of Religious Behavior
In the following review article, we aim to summarize the current research progress in the field of evolutionary and behavior genetics studies on human religiousness and religious behavior. First, we provide a brief (and thus incomplete) overview of the historical discussions and explain the genetic basis of behavior in general and religious behavior in particular, from twin studies to molecular data analysis. In the second part of the paper, we d…
Factors affecting attitudes toward migrants—An evolutionary approach
OBJECTIVE: To understand migration from an evolutionary perspective, this phenomenon has so far been mainly investigated in animal species. We therefore aim to investigate the potential evolutionary roots of attitudes toward migrants in humans. METHODS: We used data from the European Social Survey (n = 83 734), analyzing attitudes toward migrants by performing ordinal mixed models. RESULTS: We found that men have a more restrictive attitude towar…
On the Relationship of Value Priorities with the Centrality of Religiosity and a Variety of Religious Orientations and Emotions
In this study, the relationship between religiosity and value priorities is differentiated, based on a multidimensional model of religiosity (Structure-of-Religiosity-Test). The structure of values is conceptualized using Shalom H. Schwartz's two orthogonal dimensions of self-transcendence vs. self-enhancement and openness to change vs. conservation. The relationship between these two dimensions and the centrality of religiosity, seven religious …
Do birds of a feather flock together? Factors for religious heterogamy
Social cohesion – particularly with regard to the integration of migrants – is primarily measured in terms of education, labour market participation, unemployment, income levels and poverty. When seen from a historical long-term perspective (considering the migrations of Homo sapiens in the past 300,000 years) admixture merged members of diverse groups and forged – in addition to social ties – ‘strong biological ties’ of kinship, proposing that r…
Die dunkle Seite der Macht
Der Begriff Spiritualität ist in gesellschaftlichen und wissenschaftlichen Diskursen fast ausschließlich positiv konnotiert und wird primär mit Themen wie Gesundheit, Wohlbefinden, Lebenszufriedenheit oder Intelligenz in Verbindung gebracht. Im Kontrast dazu werden im vorliegenden Beitrag vier Fallbeispiele diskutiert, in denen Erzählungen zu negativen Erfahrungen oder Einstellungen zu Spirituellem erzählt werden. Die Erzählungen stammen aus Leit…
Religiosität in unterschiedlichen Religionskulturen – Vergleiche auf der Basis der Centrality of Religiosity Scale
Der Beitrag diskutiert die interreligiöse Anwendbarkeit der Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS). Ein wesentlicher Teil besteht in der soziologischen Begründung von sechs Kerndimensionen der Religiosität (Ideologie, Intellekt, Erfahrung, private Praxis, öffentliche Praxis, Konsequenzen im Alltag), wobei die CRS auf den ersten fünf Dimensionen basiert. Bei der theoretischen Begründung der Kerndimensionen spielen ihre relative Autonomie sowie sozi…
What Do Seculars Understand as ‘Spiritual’? A Replication of Eisenmann et al.’s Semantics of Spirituality
Eisenmann et al. developed a system consisting of forty-four categories to code the definitions of spirituality in samples from the USA and Germany. We tested this category system in a sample of seculars in Switzerland. All original categories were applicable to the individual understandings of spirituality in our sample. Only two additional categories of marginal relevance were formed. This result confirms the validity of the category system. Fu…
Negative views of Islam in Switzerland with special regard to religiosity as an explanatory factor
Drawing on such theoretical paradigms as Social Identity Theory, the deprivation hypothesis, and the concept of trust, we sought to investigate how religiosity relates to attitudes towards Islam among the Swiss population. In this quantitative study based on the data of the Swiss Household Panel 2015 (n=10,848) we took into account both public religious practice and personal religiosity. A hierarchical linear regression analysis revealed that rel…
Effects of wife’s and husband’s income on wife’s reproduction
From an evolutionary perspective, for women mate choice may be of crucial importance particularly concerning resources needed for rearing children. In modern societies, however, resources in terms of income are often provided by both women and men. Nonetheless, the effects of a wife’s and husband’s socioeconomic status on the wife’s reproduction have not been investigated on a broader level. We therefore aim to investigate the effects of wife’s a…
Validation of the Short Forms of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale in Georgia
This study presents the validation of the short forms of Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) in Georgia. This country offers a unique Christian orthodox context with a long-lasting religious tradition and strong affiliation to churches. Translated short forms were administered in the years 2012 (CRS-5) and 2018 (CRSi-7). Participants reported on ideological, intellectual, and experiential aspects of their faith and their private and public reli…
The Relevance of the Centrality and Content of Religiosity for Explaining Islamophobia in Switzerland
Research on Islamophobia in Switzerland, and on the role of religiosity in relation to Islamophobia, is in its infancy. Against this background, we analyzed data from an online survey conducted in Switzerland on "Xenosophia and Xenophobia in and between Abrahamic religions". The results of a multivariate analysis revealed that, besides right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and political orientation, indicators related to reli…
Brazilian Validation of Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-10BR and CRS-5BR)
The centrality of religiosity scale (CRS), available in three versions (with 5, 10 and 15 items), is a measuring instrument that identifies the central importance of religiosity in the psychological construction and in the behavior of an individual. According to the literature, five components together express the centrality of religion in life: Public practice, private practice, ideological, intellectual, and religious experience. These componen…
Multidimensionality of Spirituality
This study examines the multidimensionality of spirituality by comparing the applicability of two models-the five-dimensional model of religiosity by Huber that we have extended with a sixth dimension of ethics and the three-dimensional spirituality model by Bucher. This qualitative study applied a semi-structured interview guideline of spirituality to a stratified sample of N = 48 secular individuals in Switzerland. To test these two models, fre…
Marriage Gap in Christians and Muslims
For modern Western societies with a regime of monogamy, it has recently been demonstrated that the socioeconomic status of men is positively associated with being or having been married. This study aims to compare marriage patterns (if a person has been married at least once) for cultures with a tradition of monogamy and polygyny. As no worldwide data on polygyny exist, religion was used as a proxy for monogamy (Christians) vs polygyny (Muslims).…
The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS)
The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is a measure of the centrality, importance or salience of religious meanings in personality that has been applied yet in more than 100 studies in sociology of religion, psychology of religion and religious studies in 25 countries with in total more than 100,000 participants. It measures the general intensities of five theoretical defined core dimensions of religiosity. The dimensions of public practice, p…
Brazilian Validation of Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-10BR and CRS-5BR)
The centrality of religiosity scale (CRS), available in three versions (with 5, 10 and 15 items), is a measuring instrument that identifies the central importance of religiosity in the psychological construction and in the behavior of an individual. According to the literature, five components together express the centrality of religion in life: Public practice, private practice, ideological, intellectual, and religious experience. These componen…
Validation of the Short Forms of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale in Georgia
This study presents the validation of the short forms of Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) in Georgia. This country offers a unique Christian orthodox context with a long-lasting religious tradition and strong affiliation to churches. Translated short forms were administered in the years 2012 (CRS-5) and 2018 (CRSi-7). Participants reported on ideological, intellectual, and experiential aspects of their faith and their private and public reli…
Multidimensionality of Spirituality
This study examines the multidimensionality of spirituality by comparing the applicability of two models-the five-dimensional model of religiosity by Huber that we have extended with a sixth dimension of ethics and the three-dimensional spirituality model by Bucher. This qualitative study applied a semi-structured interview guideline of spirituality to a stratified sample of N = 48 secular individuals in Switzerland. To test these two models, fre…
Worldwide Census Data Reveal Prevalence of Educational Homogamy and Its Effect on Childlessness
In a former study based on US census data, we found that educational homogamy is common and reduces the odds to remain childless. This study takes the next step and examines the prevalence of educational homogamy and its association with childlessness as well as the number of children on a worldwide basis. We analyzed census data from 41 different countries encompassing a total of 2,179,736 married women. In all investigated countries, the preval…
An Evolutionary Account of Status, Power, and Career in Modern Societies
Negative views of Islam in Switzerland with special regard to religiosity as an explanatory factor
Drawing on such theoretical paradigms as Social Identity Theory, the deprivation hypothesis, and the concept of trust, we sought to investigate how religiosity relates to attitudes towards Islam among the Swiss population. In this quantitative study based on the data of the Swiss Household Panel 2015 (n=10,848) we took into account both public religious practice and personal religiosity. A hierarchical linear regression analysis revealed that rel…
Faith at the Edge of Life
Near-death experiences (NDEs) encompass transformative existential experiences that lead to religious change. Although most previous research focused primarily on Western contexts, there remains less understanding of individuals' interpretations of NDEs in pluralistic societies such as the Philippines. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study examined the relationship between NDEs and spiritual transformation in a sample of 683 Filipino adults …
Increasing pressure on US men for income in order to find a spouse
In contemporary societies, social status - especially income - is one of the most important determinants of ever marrying among men. Using U.S. census data, we estimated the importance of income for ever marrying among men and women, analyzing birth cohorts from 1890 to 1973. We examined individuals between the ages of 45 and 55, a total of 3.5 million men and 3.6 million women. We find that for men, the importance of income in predicting ever be…
On the Relationship of Value Priorities with the Centrality of Religiosity and a Variety of Religious Orientations and Emotions
In this study, the relationship between religiosity and value priorities is differentiated, based on a multidimensional model of religiosity (Structure-of-Religiosity-Test). The structure of values is conceptualized using Shalom H. Schwartz's two orthogonal dimensions of self-transcendence vs. self-enhancement and openness to change vs. conservation. The relationship between these two dimensions and the centrality of religiosity, seven religious …
Effects of wife’s and husband’s income on wife’s reproduction
From an evolutionary perspective, for women mate choice may be of crucial importance particularly concerning resources needed for rearing children. In modern societies, however, resources in terms of income are often provided by both women and men. Nonetheless, the effects of a wife’s and husband’s socioeconomic status on the wife’s reproduction have not been investigated on a broader level. We therefore aim to investigate the effects of wife’s a…
The Relevance of the Centrality and Content of Religiosity for Explaining Islamophobia in Switzerland
Research on Islamophobia in Switzerland, and on the role of religiosity in relation to Islamophobia, is in its infancy. Against this background, we analyzed data from an online survey conducted in Switzerland on "Xenosophia and Xenophobia in and between Abrahamic religions". The results of a multivariate analysis revealed that, besides right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and political orientation, indicators related to reli…
Month of Birth Related to Fecundity and Childlessness Among Contemporary Women
To determine the associations of fecundity and childlessness with month of conception and to find a causal mechanism for these associations, we reanalyzed some of our previous data according to the predictions of the seasonal optimal ripening oocyte (SOptRO) and seasonal preovulatory over-ripeness ovopathy (SPrOO) hypotheses. Prime and minor SOptRO months as well as high-risk, no-risk, and very high risk SPrOO months were defined on the basis of …
Through the Student's Eyes
Considering religious affiliation as a category of difference enhances the expanding discussion of diversity in medical care. However, describing religious diversity as a relevant difference is potentially costly to physician and patient rights. Difficult restrictions may be placed on both physicians and patients to protect expression of religious differences, and the ability of physicians to function as patient advocates may be compromised
Studying Empirically Religious Development
As is well known, research methods fall into two broad classes: quantitative and qualitative methods.Sometimes, the respective protagonists claim a superiority of one class over the other.In contrast, the view taken here is that each has its stronger and weaker points: the optimum choice depends on the research aim (as detailed above), and it may well involve a combination of both types (cf.Bucher & Reich, 1993, pp.90-92, "Wider ein Methodenmonop…
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Season of birth contributes to variation in university examination outcomes
Epidemiological studies show that birth season influences a wide range of biological parameters such as growth, reproduction, mental illnesses, dyslexia, personality, and success in school. The present study is aimed at examining birth season's relationship to examination marks achieved at a university in a very large contemporary sample of male and female undergraduate students. We find that female university students born in spring and summer a…
Value Priorities and Content of Religiosity—New Research Perspectives
In this study the relationship of religiosity and value priorities is differentiated, based on a multidimensional measurement of different contents of religiosity. The structure of values is conceptualized using Schwartz’ (1992) two orthogonal dimensions of Self-transcendence vs. Self-enhancement and Openness to change vs. Conservation. The relations between these two dimensions and eight religious contents, ranging from open-minded to more close…
The effects of sex and childlessness on the association between status and reproductive output in modern society
Comparative Correlatives - The Case of German
Month of Birth Related to Fecundity and Childlessness Among Contemporary Women
To determine the associations of fecundity and childlessness with month of conception and to find a causal mechanism for these associations, we reanalyzed some of our previous data according to the predictions of the seasonal optimal ripening oocyte (SOptRO) and seasonal preovulatory over-ripeness ovopathy (SPrOO) hypotheses. Prime and minor SOptRO months as well as high-risk, no-risk, and very high risk SPrOO months were defined on the basis of …
Entwicklung transnationaler Modellregeln für Zivilverfahren
Prozessrechtsangleichung: Warum, in welchen Bereichen, wann, durch wen und wie? Ausgehend von diesen fünf Grundfragen entwickelt Stefan Huber transnationale Verfahrensgrundsätze und Modellregeln für den Bereich der Dokumentenvorlage. Um den Harmonisierungsbedarf auf dem Gebiet des Zivilprozessrechts auszuloten, zeigt er zunächst die gravierenden Gerechtigkeits- und Effizienzdefizite auf, die gegenwärtig bei internationalen Zivilverfahren bestehen…
Reply to D. Cummings “Response to
Strong association between birth month and reproductive performance of Vietnamese women
Epidemiological studies on premodern and modern Western societies indicate that birth season may influence female reproduction. Nothing is known, however, about this effect in developing economies. Many of the latter are characterised by tropical climates with a rainy season associated with lower food availability and a greater prevalence of infectious diseases. We therefore predict that an association between birth month and reproductive output,…
Europäische Methodik
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Socioeconomic status, education, and reproduction in modern women
Although associations between status or resources and reproduction are positive in premodern societies and also in men in modern societies, in modern women the associations are typically negative. We investigated how the association between socioeconomic status and reproductive output varies with the source of status and resources, the woman's education, and her age at reproductive onset (proxied by age at marriage). By using a large sample of US…
Socioeconomic Status, Marital Status and Childlessness in Men and Women
This study compares the effects of two distinct forms of human capital – income and education – on marital status and childlessness separately by sex in six different countries. Nearly 10 million individual records on individuals aged 16 to 50 were used from censuses from Brazil, Mexico, Panama, South Africa, USA and Venezuela dating from 2000 or later, to analyse the relationship between education, income and marital status and childlessness in …
Perinatal winter conditions affect later reproductive performance in romanian women
OBJECTIVES: To compare epidemiological studies on Austrian and New Zealand women that report below average reproductive performance after birth in summer, with a similar study in Romanian women. METHODS: We examined the association between birth month and offspring count analyzing census data from Romania obtained from IPUMS International (Population and Housing Census of Romania, year 2002), totaling 411,270 women aged older than 45 years. We in…
Forgiveness by God and Human Forgivingness
The present study tested the hypothesis that centrality of religiosity as defined as the position of an individual's religious construct system in personality moderates the relationship between the experience of forgiveness by God and forgivingness for others. Participants ( N = 459) completed measures of forgiveness by God, forgivingness, and centrality of religiosity. The moderating hypothesis was tested by treating centrality of religiosity bo…
An Evolutionary Account of Status, Power, and Career in Modern Societies
The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS)
The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is a measure of the centrality, importance or salience of religious meanings in personality that has been applied yet in more than 100 studies in sociology of religion, psychology of religion and religious studies in 25 countries with in total more than 100,000 participants. It measures the general intensities of five theoretical defined core dimensions of religiosity. The dimensions of public practice, p…
Advanced paternal age is associated with lower facial attractiveness
Paternal age predicts offspring chances of marriage and reproduction
OBJECTIVES: Mutation-selection balance theory proposes that a balance of forces between constantly arising mildly harmful mutations and selection causes variation in genetic configuration and phenotypic condition. As mutations are predominantly deleterious, the entry of variation due to mutations is kept at low frequencies by selection. It has recently been demonstrated that nearly all de novo mutation are caused by paternal age. METHODS: We exam…
Worldwide Census Data Reveal Prevalence of Educational Homogamy and Its Effect on Childlessness
In a former study based on US census data, we found that educational homogamy is common and reduces the odds to remain childless. This study takes the next step and examines the prevalence of educational homogamy and its association with childlessness as well as the number of children on a worldwide basis. We analyzed census data from 41 different countries encompassing a total of 2,179,736 married women. In all investigated countries, the preval…
Transnationales Kreditsicherungsrecht
Asset-based financing requires a secured transactions law which permits the efficient and swift enforcement of security interests. The interplay between substantive law, procedural law and insolvency law is highly complex even at the purely national level. If the object covered by a security interest moves regularly across national frontiers, an additional issue arises: the cross-border recognition of the security interest. This issue became of p…
Erfüllungshaftung Vertragsfremder
Die Durchführung von Verträgen kann positive sowie negative Auswirkungen auf Dritte haben. Eine mögliche Auswirkung besteht darin, dass die vertragscharakteristische Leistung einem Dritten zugutekommt. Hier stellt sich vor allem bei Insolvenz des Vertragspartners die Frage, ob der Leistungserbringer den Vertragsfremden in Erfüllungshaftung nehmen kann. Stefan Huber zeigt auf, dass bereits de lege lata Ausprägungen einer solchen Erfüllungshaftung …
Marriage Gap in Christians and Muslims
For modern Western societies with a regime of monogamy, it has recently been demonstrated that the socioeconomic status of men is positively associated with being or having been married. This study aims to compare marriage patterns (if a person has been married at least once) for cultures with a tradition of monogamy and polygyny. As no worldwide data on polygyny exist, religion was used as a proxy for monogamy (Christians) vs polygyny (Muslims).…
Mutual compensation of the effects of religious and ethnic homogamy on reproduction
OBJECTIVES: Homogamy, mating based on similarity, has been demonstrated for a great variety of traits such as age, education, religion, and physical and psychological traits. Recently, pro-fertile effects of religious as well as educational homogamy have been reported. We investigate whether ethnic homogamy also has a pro-fertile effect and whether ethnic and religious homogamy interact in their putative effects on reproduction (in terms of avera…
Sociology (24 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Demography (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (15 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Population (13 works) · Religiosity (12 works) · Biology (11 works)