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Prof. Dr. Simone Dohle

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Prof. Dr. Simone Dohle

Dipl. Psychologist

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Head of the Health and Risk Communication Lab

Venusberg-Campus 1 | Institut für Hausarztmedizin | Gebäude 05 | Universitätsklinikum Bonn

D-53127 Bonn

About Simone

Prof. Dr. Simone Dohle is Professor of Health and Risk Communication at the Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine since April 2022. She studied psychology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and received her PhD from the University of Zurich in 2010. After completing her PhD, she conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow and senior assistant at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) at ETH Zurich. She continued her academic career as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cologne where she completed her habilitation in 2018. Prior to her appointment at the University of Bonn, she was Interim Professor for Medical Psychology at the University of Bielefeld. Her research focuses on health and risk communication, self-regulation and motivation, health-related behavior change, medical decision-making and digital health.

Research Interests

  • Health and Risk Communication
  • Behavior Change
  • Self-regulation and Motivation
  • Medical Decision Making
  • Digital Health

Publications

In press

Cologna, V., Mede, N. G., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., … Dohle, S., …. Zwaan, R. A. (in press). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02090-54.

Raz, N., Seffen, A. E., Dohle, S., & Katzir, M. (in press). Small Steps, Big Impact: Increasing Perceived Effectiveness of Sustainable Behavior by Demonstrating its Cumulative Impact Over Time. Environment and Behavior.

2025

Mede, N. G.*, Cologna, V.*, Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., …, Dohle, S., … & Zwaan, R. A. (2025). Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries: The TISP dataset. Scientific Data, 12(1), 114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04100-75 

* shared first authorship

Pförtner, T.-K., Gube, M., Koch, T., Michels, J., Dohle, S., & Demirer, I. (2025). Parental education and neighbourhood socioeconomic status in the prediction of childhood overweight: A multilevel analysis. Pediatric Obesity, 20(2), Article e13181. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.131816

Rramani Dervishi, Q., & Dohle, S. (2025). Evaluating the multi-faceted effect of concurrent front-of-pack nutrition and ecolabels on food evaluation. Food Quality and Preference, 127, Article 105465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.1054657

Weingarten, N.*, Seffen, A. E.*, Bach, L., Meis-Harris, J., Aeikens, A., Barbieri, S., & Dohle, S. (2025). Investigating the effect of animal visualisations on meat choice: An experimental lab study with a fake food buffet. Food Quality and Preference, 129, Article 105508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.1054658

*shared first authorship

2024

Blase, R., Meis-Harris, J., Weltermann, B., & Dohle, S. (2024). Icon Arrays for Medical Risk Communication: Do Icon Type and Color Influence Cardiovascular Risk Perception and Recall? Medical Decision Making, 44(6), 661-673. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X2412630409

Graczyk, T.*, Wingen, T.*, Wingen, S., & Dohle, S. (2024). Do mindsets shape intentions to help those in need? Unraveling the paradoxical effects of mindsets of poverty on helping intentions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 629-642. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.303910

*shared first authorship

Meis-Harris, J., Rramani-Dervishi, Q., Seffen, A. E., & Dohle, S. (2024). Food for future: The impact of menu design on vegetarian food choice and menu satisfaction in a hypothetical hospital setting. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 97, Article 102348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.10234811

Pförtner, T. K., Schippel, L., Gube, M., Koch, T., Michels, J., Rathmann, K., & Dohle, S. (2024). Der familiäre Bildungsstatus und eine empfohlene sonderpädagogische Bedarfsprüfung: Eine Trendanalyse mit den jährlichen Daten der Schuleingangsuntersuchung der Städteregion Aachen der Jahre 2015 bis 2019. ZSE Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation, 44(1), 54-69. https://doi.org/10.3262/ZSE240105412

Wingen, S., Graczyk, T., Wingen, T., & Dohle, S. (2024). Mindsets at work: Understanding the positive impact of growth mindsets on workplace coaching. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 46(5), 381–397. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2024.238271813

2023

Håkonsen, H., Dohle, S., Rhedin, H. & Hedenrud, T. (2023). Preferences for medicines with different environmental impact – a Swedish population-based study. Environmental Advances, 12, Article 100358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2023.10035814

Hinssen, M., & Dohle, S. (2023). Personal protective behaviors in response to COVID-19: A longitudinal application of Protection Motivation Theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1195607. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.119560715

Schreiber, M., & Dohle, S. (2023). A smartphone-based implicit theories intervention for health behavior change: Randomized trial. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 11, Article  e36578. https://doi.org/10.2196/3657816

Seffen, A. E., & Dohle, S. (2023). What motivates German consumers to reduce their meat consumption? Identifying relevant beliefs. Appetite, 187, Article 106593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.10659317

2022

Kwasnicka, D., Keller, J., Perski, O., Potthoff, S., ten Hoor, G. A., Ainsworth, B., Crutzen, R., Dohle, S., van Dongen, A., Heino, M.,Henrich, J. F., Knox, L., König, L. M., Maltinsky, W., McCallum, C.,Nalukwago, J., Neter, E., Nurmi, J., Spitschan, M., Van Beurden, S. B., Van der Laan, L. N., Wunsch, K., Levink, J. J. J., Sanderman, R. (2022). White Paper: Open Digital Health – accelerating transparent and scalable health promotion and treatment. Health Psychology Review, , 16(4), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2022.204648218

Pförtner, T. K., Dohle, S., & Hower, K. I. (2022). Trends in educational disparities in preventive behaviours, risk perception, perceived effectiveness and trust in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. BMC Public Health, 22, Article 903. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13341-319

Wingen, T., Berkessel, J. B., & Dohle, S. (2022). Caution, preprint! Brief explanations allow nonscientists to differentiate between preprints and peer-reviewed journal articles. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 5(1).  https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245921107055920

Wingen, T., Lecuona, O., & Dohle, S., (2022). Attitudes towards science during the COVID-19 pandemic: A psychological network approach. European Journal of Health Communication, 3(1), 98-118. https://doi.org/10.47368/ejhc.2022.10521

 2021

Dohle, S., Duncan, M. J., & Bucher, T. (2021). Development and validation of the diet-related beliefs of exercisers scale (DBES). Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 43(2), 115-124. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2020-002722

Dohle, S., Schreiber, M., Wingen, T., & Baumann, M. (2021). Blaming others for their illness: The influence of health-related implicit theories on blame and social support. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52(4), 210-219.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.1284423

Wingen, T., & Dohle, S. (2021). Exploring negative beliefs about power: The role of autonomy and influence. Social Psychology, 52(4).  https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a00045324

 2020

Bucher, T., Frey, E., Wilczynska, M., Deroover, K., & Dohle, S. (2020). Consumer perception and behaviour related to low-alcohol wine: Do people overcompensate? Public Health Nutrition, 23(11), 1939-1947. https://doi.org/10.1017/S136898001900523825

Dohle*, S., Wingen*, T., & Schreiber, M. (2020). Acceptance and adoption of protective measures during the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of trust in politics and trust in science. Social Psychological Bulletin, 15(4), Article e4315, https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.431526

*shared first authorship

Hofmann, W., Dohle, S., & Diel, K. (2020). Changing Behavior Using Integrative Self-Control Theory. In M. Hagger, L. Cameron, K. Hamilton, N. Hankonen, & T. Lintunen (Eds.), The Handbook of Behavior Change (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 150-163). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/97811086773180.01127

Landy, J. F., Jia, M., Ding, I. L., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., … Dohle, S., … Uhlmann, E. L. (2020). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin, 146(5), 451–479. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul000022028

Mötteli, S., & Dohle, S. (2020). Egocentric social network correlates of physical activity. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 9(4), 339-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jshs.2017.01.00229

Schreiber, M., Bucher, T., Collins, C., & Dohle, S. (2020). The Multiple Food Test: Development and validation of a new tool to measure food choices and applied nutrition knowledge. Appetite, 150, Article 104647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.10464730

Schreiber, M., Job, V., & Dohle, S. (2020). Is your health malleable or fixed? The influence of implicit theories on health-related attitudes and behaviour. Psychology & Health, 35(12), 1421-1439. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2020.176197531

2019

Dohle, S., & Hofmann, W. (2019). Consistency and balancing in everyday health behavior: An Ecological Momentary Assessment approach. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 11(1), 148–169.  https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.1214832

Prinsen, S., Dohle, S., Evers, C., de Ridder, D. T. D., & Hofmann, W. (2019). Introducing functional and dysfunctional self-licensing: Associations with indices of (un)successful dietary regulation. Journal of Personality, 87(5), 934–947. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.1244533

2018

Dohle, S., Diel, K., & Hofmann, W. (2018). Executive functions and the self-regulation of eating behavior: A review. Appetite, 124, 4–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.05.04134

Dohle, S., & Hofmann, W. (2018). Assessing self-control: the use and usefulness of the Experience Sampling Method. In D. de Ridder, M. Adriaanse, & K. Fujita (Eds.), Handbook of self-control in health and well-being (pp. 100–111). New York, NY: Routledge.

2017

Dohle, S., & Bucher, T. (2017). Whether people believe that overweight is unhealthy depends on their BMI. European Journal of Public Health, 27(4), 781–783. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckx04235

Dohle, S., & Dawson, I. G. J. (2017). Putting knowledge into practice: Does information on adverse drug interactions influence people’s dosing behaviour? British Journal of Health Psychology, 22(2), 330–344. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.1223136

Dohle, S., & Hofmann, W. (2017). Toward a mechanistic understanding of the impact of food insecurity on obesity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, Article e116, 23–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1600141237

Dohle, S., & Montoya, A. K. (2017). The dark side of fluency: Fluent names increase drug dosing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 23(3), 231–239. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap000013138

2016

Dawson, I. G. J., & Dohle, S. (2016). Towards an understanding of adult judgments of synergistic health benefits. British Journal of Health Psychology, 21(1), 204-223. lhttps://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.1215839

Dohle, S., Rall, S., & Siegrist, M. (2016). Does self-prepared food taste better? Effects of food preparation on liking. Health Psychology, 35(5), 500–508. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea000031540

Vogel, S. E., Keller, C., Koschutnig, K., Reishofer, G., Ebner, F., Dohle, S., Siegrist, M., & Grabner, R. H. (2016). The neural correlates of health risk perception in individuals with low and high numeracy. ZDM, 48, 337–350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-016-0761-441

2015

Dohle, S., Wansink, B., & Zehnder, L. (2015). Exercise and food compensation: Exploring diet-related beliefs and behaviors of regular exercisers. Journal of Physical Activity & Health, 12(3), 322-327. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2013-038342

Gmuer, A., Siegrist, M., & Dohle, S. (2015). Does wine label processing fluency influence wine hedonics? Food Quality and Preference, 44, 12–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.03.00743

Hartmann, C., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2015). A self-determination theory approach to adults’ healthy body weight motivation: A longitudinal study focussing on food choices and recreational physical activity. Psychology & Health, 30(8), 924–948. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2015.100622344

2014

Bevelander, K. E., Kaipainen, K., Swain, R., Dohle, S., Bongard, J. C., Hines, P. D. H., & Wansink, B. (2014). Crowdsourcing novel childhood predictors of adult obesity. PLoS ONE, 9, Article e87756. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.008775645

Dohle, S., Hartmann, C., & Keller, C. (2014). Physical activity as a moderator of the association between emotional eating and BMI: Evidence from the Swiss Food Panel. Psychology & Health, 29(9), 1062–1080. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2014.90904246

Dohle, S., Rall, S., & Siegrist, M. (2014). I cooked it myself: Preparing food increases liking and consumption. Food Quality and Preference , 33, 14–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.11.00147

Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2014). Fluency of pharmaceutical drug names predicts perceived hazardousness, assumed side effects and willingness to buy. Journal of Health Psychology, 19(10), 1241–1249. https://doi.org/10.1177/135910531348897448

Hartmann, C., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2014). Time for change? Food choices in the transition to cohabitation and parenthood. Public Health Nutrition, 17(12), 2730–2739. https://doi.org/10.1017/S136898001300329749

Hofmann, W., & Dohle, S. (2014). Capturing eating behavior where the action takes place: A comment on McKee et al. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 48(3), 289–290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-014-9625-850

L'Orange Seigo, S., Arvai, J., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2014). Predictors of risk and benefit perception of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in regions with different stages of deployment. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 25, 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2014.03.00751

L'Orange Seigo, S., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2014). Public perception of carbon capture and storage (CCS): A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 38, 848–863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2014.07.01752

2013

Dohle, S., Campbell, V. E. A., & Arvai, J. L. (2013). Consumer-perceived risks and choices about pharmaceuticals in the environment: a cross-sectional study. Environmental Health, 12, Article 45. https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-12-4553

Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2013). Cognitive and affective determinants of generic drug acceptance and use: Cross-sectional and experimental findings. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 1(1), 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2013.80382854

Dohle, S., & Wansink, B. (2013). Fit in 50 years: Participation in high school sports best predicts one’s physical activity after Age 70. BMC Public Health, 13, Article 1100. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-110055

Hartmann, C., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2013). Importance of cooking skills for balanced food choices. Appetite, 65, 125–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2013.01.01656

L'Orange Seigo, S., Dohle, S., Diamond, L., & Siegrist, M. (2013). The effect of figures in CCS communication. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 16, 83–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.03.00957

Visschers, V. H. M., Hartmann, C., Leins-Hess, R., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2013). A consumer segmentation of nutrition information use and its relation to food consumption behaviour. Food Policy, 42, 71–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.07.00358

2012

Dohle, S., Keller, C., & Siegrist, M. (2012). Fear and anger: Antecedents and consequences of emotional responses to mobile communication. Journal of Risk Research, 15(4), 435–446. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2011.63683559

Dohle, S., Keller, C., & Siegrist, M. (2012). Mobile communication in the public mind: Insights from free associations related to mobile phone base stations. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 18(3), 649–668. https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2012.67290060

Wallquist, L., Visschers, V. H. M., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2012). The role of convictions and trust for public protest potential in the case of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 18(4), 919–932. https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2012.68871961

2011

Cousin, M., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2011). The impact of specific information provision on base station siting preferences. Journal of Risk Research, 14(6), 703–715. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2011.55373262

L’Orange Seigo, S., Wallquist, L., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2011). Communication of CCS monitoring activities may not have a reassuring effect on the public. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 5(6), 1674–1679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2011.05.04063

Wallquist, L., Visschers, V. H. M., Dohle, S., & Siegrist, M. (2011). Adapting communication to the public’s intuitive understanding of CCS. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 1(1), 83–91. https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg3.464

2010

Dohle, S. (2010). Zwischen Bedrohung und Chance: Über die Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation von Risiken. In-Mind Magazin, 1(3).

Dohle, S., Keller, C., & Siegrist, M. (2010). Conjoint measurement of base station siting preferences. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 16(4), 825–836. https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2010.50125065

Dohle, S., Keller, C., & Siegrist, M. (2010). Examining the relationship between affect and implicit associations: Implications for risk perception. Risk Analysis, 30(7), 1116–1128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01404.x66

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