Mitglied der Arbeitsgruppe Wahrnehmung und Handlung
Helen Fischer ist seit April 2022 Postdoc am IWM in der Arbeitsgruppe Wahrnehmung und Handlung. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen die Rolle der Metakognition für, insbesondere der Einsicht in die Grenzen des eigenen Wissens, für Überzeugungen zu politisierter Wissenschaft wie Klimawandel oder COVID-19. Außerdem erforscht sie in verschiedenen Projekten die Bedeutung der Metakognition beim Erkennen eigener Denkfehler wie der motivierten Informationsverarbeitung und zur Informationsweitergabe in sozialen Netzwerken.
Helen Fischer promovierte 2016 in Kognitionspsychologie an der Universität Heidelberg. Nach Postdoc-Stellen an der Universität Heidelberg sowie der Uniklinik Heidelberg in Projekten zur öffentlichen Wahrnehmung des Klimawandels, erhielt sie 2019 ein Postdoc Fellowship der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Helen Fischer arbeitete 2019-2020 am Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Schweden, und war 2020-2022 Gastwissenschaftlerin am Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin. Sie war Teil des Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health 2018, Media coverage of health and climate change.
Fischer, H., Huff, M., & Said, N. (in press). Polarized climate change beliefs: No evidence for science literacy driving motivated reasoning in a U.S. national study. American Psychologist. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000982 [Data]
Fischer, H., & Said, N. (2021). Importance of domain-specific metacognition for explaining beliefs about politicized science: the case of climate change. Cognition, 208, Article 104545. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104545
Said, N.*, Fischer, H.*, & Anders, G. (2021). Contested science: Individuals with higher metacognitive insight into interpretation of evidence are less likely to polarize. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(2), 668-680. *Equal contribution. https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01993-y
Fischer, H., van den Broek, K. L., Ramisch, K., & Okan, Y. (2020). When IPCC graphs can foster or bias understanding: evidence among decision-makers from governmental and non-governmental institutions. Environmental Research Letters, 15(11), Article 114041. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abbc3c
Open Access
Amelung, D.*, Fischer, H.*, Herrmann, A., Aall, C., Louis, V. R., Becher, H., Wilkinson, P., & Sauerborn, R. (2019). Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation: results from four European high-income countries. Global Environmental Change, 57, Article 101918. *Equal contribution. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.05.002
Fischer, H., Amelung, D., & Said, N. (2019). The accuracy of German citizens’ confidence in their climate change knowledge. Nature Climate Change, 9(10), 776-780. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0563-0
Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Berry, H., Bouley, T., Boykoff, M., Byass, P., Cai, W., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Chambers, J., Daly, M., Dasandi, N., Davies, M., Depoux, A., Dominguez-Salas, P., Drummond, P., ... Fischer, H., ... Costello, A. (2018). The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come. The Lancet, 392(10163), 2479-2514. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32594-7
Fischer, H., & van den Broek, K. (2021). Climate change knowledge, meta-knowledge and beliefs. In A. Franzen & S. Mader (Eds.), Research Handbook on Environmental Sociology (pp. 116-132). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800370456.00015
Fischer, H. (2022, May 3). How good are IPCC graphs at communicating climate change to policy-makers? Invited talk at The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), Sciences Po. Paris, France. [Talk]
Fischer, H. (2022, May 18). A metacognitive perspective on politicized science. Invited talk at the Psychonomic Society's One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series. [Talk]
Fischer, H. (2022, June 23-25). Communicating politicized science – a cognitive perspective. Invited talk at the Jubilee Symposium. The Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital. [Talk]
Fischer, H., Huff, M., & Said, N. (2022, March 10-11). Insight into the accuracy of COVID-19 beliefs predicts public health compliance, and vaccination willingness. 24 Hours of Political Psychology: Interdisciplinary Conference of the German Political Psychology Network: 3rd meeting of the Political Psychology Network Germany. Chemnitz. [Talk]
Holford, D., Fasce, A., Tapper, K., Demko, M., Lewandowsky, S., Hahn, U., Al-Rawi, A., Alladin, A., Boender, T. S., Bruns, H., Fischer, F., Gilde, C., Hanel, P. H. P., Herzog, S. M., Kause, A., Lehmann, S., Nurse, M. S., Orr, C., Pescetelli, N., ... Wulf, M. (2022). A manifesto for science communication as collective intelligence . https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/TZUFW
Dr. Helen Fischer
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