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PRODEMINFO - Dr. Christoph M. Abels

Dr. Christoph M. Abels

Post-Doctoral Fellow in the ERC-Project PRODEMINFO

 

Campus Golm
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Haus 14, Raum 3.39

 

consulting hours
by appointment

Research interests

  • Inter-individual differences in the perception of truth and authenticity
  • Individuell vulnerabilities to mis- and disinformation
  • Evidence-based policymaking

Academic degrees

2023 Dr. rer. pol. Hertie School, Berlin
2017 Master of Public Policy Hertie School, Berlin
2015 Bachelor of Science, Psychology University of Hagen

Recent publications

2024

Abels, C. M., Huttunen, K. J. A., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (in press). Dodging the autocratic bullet: Enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding. Behavioural Public Policy.

Abels, C. M. (2024). Stewardship Theory. In R. A. List, H. K. Anheier, & S. Toepler (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (pp. 1–6). Springer International Publishing. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99675-2_9556-1


2023

Holford, D., Fasce, A., Tapper, K., Demko, M., Lewandowsky, S., Hahn, U., Abels, C. M., Al-Rawi, A., Alladin, S., Sonia Boender, T., Bruns, H., Fischer, H., Gilde, C., Hanel, P. H. P., Herzog, S. M., Kause, A., Lehmann, S., Nurse, M. S., Orr, C., Pescetelli, N., Petrescu, M., Sah, S., Schmid, P., Sirota, M. & Wulf, M. (2023). Science Communication as a Collective Intelligence Endeavor: A Manifesto and Examples for ImplementationScience Communication, 10755470231162634. doi: 10.1177/10755470231162634.

Abels, C. M. (2022). Everybody lies: Misinformation and Its Implications for the 4th Space. The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information, 68, 120. doi:10.3390/proceedings 2022081120

Abels, C. M. & Hardegger, D. (2022). Privacy and transparency in the 4th Space: Implications for Conspiracy Theories. Filozofia I Nauka [Philosophy and Science], 10, 187-212. doi: 10.37240/FiN.2022.10.zs.8

Abels, C. M., Anheier, H. K., Begg, I., & Featherstone, K. (2020). Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals. Global Policy, 11(1), 128-142. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12792

Anheier, H. K., & Abels, C. M. (2020). Corporate Governance: What are the Issues? In H. K. Anheier & T. Baums (Eds.), Advances in Corporate Governance: Comparative Perspectives (pp. 10–42). Oxford University Press.