Previous Colloquia

Autumn Term 2012

20^th September 2012
Angela Bearth, Consumer Behavior, ETH Zurich
"The perception of food risks - Campylobacter and selective food additives"

27^th September 2012
Vivianne Visschers, Consumer Behavior, ETH Zurich
"Nuclear power before and after Fukushima: The relations between attitudes, ambivalence and knowledge"

18^th October 2012
Selma L'Orange Seigo, Consumer Behavior, ETH Zurich
"Predictors of risk and benefit perception of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): A cross-national comparison"

1^st November 2012
Christina Hartmann, Consumer Behavior, ETH Zurich
"The importance of cooking skills for balanced food choices"

8^th November 2012
Bernd Figner, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
"The interplay of affective and deliberative processes in risky decision making (working title)"

22^nd November 2012
Andreas Glöckner, Max Planck Institute, Bonn
"Decision processes in risky choice: An eye-tracking analysis"

6^th December 2012
Esther Papies, University of Utrecht, NL
"Self-regulation in food-rich environments and insights from mindfulness"

Spring Term 2012

1^st March
Pascale Orlow, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"The evaluation of medical trainees"

8^th March
Urte Scholz, University of Constance, Germany
"T.B.A."

5^th April
Marie-Eve Cousin, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Farmers’ perception of mastitis"

24^th April (Tuesday, 13:30!)
Brian Zikmund-Fisher, University of Michigan, US
"Medical risk communication"

3^rd May
Tamara Bucher, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"How serving order influences men’s meal composition"

10^th May
Esther Infanger, Swiss Society for Nutrition
"Healthy food choices: How do the Swiss consumers behave?"

31^st May
Marianne Schmid-Mast, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
"Doctor - patient interaction"

Autumn Term 2011

29^th September
Rebecca Hess, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"valuation of visual health communication materials: The role of format, numeracy and health motivation"

6^th October
Joe Arvai, Michigan State University, USA
"Decision support for developing countries: Insights from research in Costa Rica and Tanzania"

17^th October
Christina Hartmann, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Snack frequency: Associations with healthy and unhealthy food choices"

27^th October

Ingrid Steenhuis, VU University Amsterdam, NL
"The obesogenic environment"

24^th November
Simone Dohle, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Methoden-Kolloquium: Mediation und Moderation"

1^st December
Judit Lienert, EAWAG, Zürich
"Multi-criteria decision analysis; a method to support actor involvement and decision making in urban water management"

15^th December
Alexandra Zingg, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Public perception of food safety"

Spring Term 2011

24^th February
Selma L'Orange, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Influence of CCS monitoring information on risk perception"

3^rd March
Christine Brugger, Agroscope, Wädenswil, Switzerland
"Exploring consumer preferences of apples – differentiation of Swiss versus European consumers"

17^th March
Thomas Brunner, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"It takes some effort: How effort affects food intake"

31^st March

Liisa Lähteenmäki, Aarhus University, Denmark
"Acceptability of new food-related innovations and technologies (tentatively)"

7^th April
Vivianne Visschers, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Alternatives for nuclear power plants: risk perception, acceptance, trust, fairness and affect (tentatively)"

14^th April
Simone Dohle, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"What's in a name? Processing fluency affects perceived harmfulness of medications"

5^th May
Nina Tobler, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Food, environment and consumer behavior (tentatively)"

10^th May
Wes Jamison, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA
"How animal welfare groups are using religion to persuade consumers to undermine confinement animal agriculture"

26^th May
Lauren Fleishman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
"Predicting public preferences and knowledge about low-carbon electricity technologies by measuring environmental attitudes"

Autumn Term 2010

23^th September
Melanie Connor, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Sorting biotechnology applications: results of multidimensional scaling (MDS) and cluster analysis

30^th September
Alexandra Zingg, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Culling or vaccinating animals: risk perception and acceptance of strategies to fight animal epidemics and zoonoses

7^th October
Tamara Bucher, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Cholce architecture: how external cues can be used to improve consumer's meal composition

28^th October
Maria Dickson-Spillmann, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Consumers' knowledge and perception of synthetic food additives

4^th November
Bernadette Sütterlin, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
The relationship between social value orientation and energy conversation behavior

11^th November
Nina Tobler, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Addressing climate change: determinants of consumers' willingness to act and support policy measures

18^th November
Rebecca Hess, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Method: eye-tracker

25^th November
Christine Brugger, Agroscope, Wädenswil, CH
Exploring consumer preferences of apples - differentiation of Swiss versus European consumers

2^th December
Britta Renner, Universität Konstanz, D
Health and risk perception (tentatively)

9^th December
Alexandra Zingg, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Method: Mokken-scaling

16^th December
Ellen Townsend, University of Nottingham, UK
Investigating the operation of the affect heuristic

Spring Term 2010

March 4
Rebecca Hess, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Medical risks depicted in arrays of pictographs: The role of numeracy"

March 18
Lasse Wallquist, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"An underground balloon or a soaking sponge? The impact of knowledge and misconceptions on benefit and risk perception of CCS"

March 25
Franziska Humair, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Expert perceptions of invasive, non-native plants"

April 1
Monique Raats, University of Surrey, England
"Making healthy food choices: Labels and other tools for consumers"

April 8
Simone Dohle, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Public perception of mobile communication: Summary and perspectives"

April 22
John Thogersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
"Electricity saving in households: A social cognitive approach"

May 20
Michael Schulte Meckleback, Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne
"Industrial consumer research: Balancing health and pleasure"

June 10
Alexandra Zingg, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
"Culling or vaccinating animals: Risk perception and acceptance of strategies to fight animal epidemics and zoonoses"

Autumn Term 2009

September 17
Nina Tobler, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Environmental food assessment by consumers

October 1
Simone Dohle, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Mobile communication in the experts’ and the public’s mind: Insights from free associations to mobile phone base stations

October 22
Bart Terwel, Leiden University
Trust and public acceptance of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS): An overview of experimental research

November 5
Peter Schulz, University of Lugano
Gilding the pill? Information quality and argumentation in pharmaceutical advertising

November 19
Hans van Trijp, Wageningen University and Research Centre
Consumers and nutrition information: What we do(n't) know

December 3
Tatjana van Strien, Radboud University Nijmegen
Overweight and overeating: Does external eating (sensory eating) play a role?

December 17
Klazine van der Horst, ETH Zurich, Consumer Behavior
Environmental determinants of overweight in Rotterdam school children

Spring Term 2009

February 26
Lasse Wallquist, ETH CB
Experts' and laypeople's perception of carbon capture and storage in Switzerland

March 12
Melanie Connor, ETH CB
Public perception of gene technology (working title)

March 19
Ana Isabel de Almeida Costa, Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon
To cook or not to cook: when convenience search, moral standards and social norms lead to consumption conflicts and unreasonable choices

March 26
Arnd Florack, Zeppelin University, Constance
Selfregulation between ideals and oughts: The impact on information processing and behavior

April 2
Thomas Brunner, ETH CB
A segmentation study of Swiss wine consumers

April 9
Linda Steg, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Household energy conservation

May 7
Janneke de Jong, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Consumer confidence in the safety of food: A longitudinal perspective and the relationship between general and context-specific trust

Autumn Term 2008

Sep 25
Michael Siegrist, ETH-CB
Perception of Nanotechnology: Experts and Lay people

Oct 23
Eva Green, University of Lausanne
The faithfulness gene and particle physics: Cases of transmission and transformation of scientific information

Nov 6
Alexa Spence, Cardiff University
Do you know what I think about nuclear power?

Nov 20
Ellen van Kleef, Wageningen University
Consumer understanding and health risk communication

Dec 4
Rebecca Hess, ETH-CB
Visual attention on the Paling Perspective Scale - Methods and results

Dec 18
Jeannette Nuessli, ETH-CB
Verbalization of taste perception - Going beyond sensory science

Spring Term 2008

January 28
Marie Caroline Viebke
Neuronal Correlates of Risk Perception

February 21
Marie-Eve Cousin
Risk Perception and Mobile Communication

March 6
Dr. Stephanie Kurzenhäuser (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany)
Mechanisms of governmental risk communication

March 20
Cancelled

April 3
Cancelled

April 17
Dr. Malte Friese (University of Basel, Psychology Faculty)
Candy, beer, and attractive women: Impulse and control in the self-regulation of consumer behavior

May 15
Rebecca Hess
Presentation formats in health risk communication

May 29
Dr. Timothy Earle (Western Washington University, Department of Psychology)
Advice and Trust in Risk Management Contexts: The TCC Model Perspective

Autumn Term 2007

September 27, 2007
Vivianne Visschers
Nutrition labels: How to improve their use and understanding using the C-HIP model

October 11, 2007
Pascale Orlow
Der Prozess einer schriftlichen Befragung am Beispiel "Evaluation der Assistenten-Weiterbildung"

October 25, 2007
Maria Spillmann
Risk perception of phtalates in food and its relationship to exposure: Study plan

November 8, 2007
Benjamin Scheibehenne (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
Simple Heuristics of (Food) Choice

November 22, 2007
Carmen Keller
The effect of communication formats on risk perception depending on numeracy skills

December 6, 2007
Simone Dohle
How do you feel about mobile phones? Affect and perception of non-ionizing radiation

December 20, 2007
Melanie Grabbert
Implicit and explicit attitudes towards GMOs