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Tobias Brosch is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research in the social sciences, psychology, and environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, management, monitoring, policy and law, applied psychology, economics and econometrics, and social psychology.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to environmental education and sustainability, climate change communication and perception, behavioral health and interventions, economic and environmental valuation, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, and environmental sustainability in business.

Notable recent publications by Tobias Brosch include:

  • Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action, 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Leveraging emotion for sustainable action, 2021, One Earth

They have also contributed to several notable papers with other researchers, such as:

  • The effectiveness of nudging: A meta-analysis of choice architecture interventions across behavioral domains, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries, 2024, Science Advances
  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour

Brosch has published frequently in journals such as the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Motivation Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, and Nature Human Behaviour.

Their frequent coauthors include Ulf J.J. Hahnel, Tobia Spampatti, Mario Herberz, Kimberly C Doell, and Beatrice Conte.

Best Publications

  • The effectiveness of nudging: A meta-analysis of choice architecture interventions across behavioral domains

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  • Attentional Bias for Positive Emotional Stimuli: A Meta-Analytic Investigation

    Eva Pool;Tobias Brosch;Sylvain Delplanque;David Sander

  • Beyond Fear Rapid Spatial Orienting Toward Positive Emotional Stimuli

    Tobias Brosch;David Sander;Gilles Pourtois;Klaus R. Scherer

  • The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review

    Tobias Brosch;Gilles Pourtois;David Sander

  • Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review

    Tobias Brosch

  • Faces in context: a review and systematization of contextual influences on affective face processing.

    Matthias J. Wieser;Tobias Brosch

  • Motivational Salience Amygdala Tuning From Traits, Needs, Values, and Goals

    William A. Cunningham;Tobias Brosch

  • The impact of emotion on perception, attention, memory, and decision-making

    Tobias Brosch;Klaus R. Scherer;Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander

  • That baby caught my eye. . . Attention capture by infant faces

    Tobias Brosch;David Sander;Klaus R. Scherer

  • The Role of Fear-Relevant Stimuli in Visual Search: A Comparison of Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Stimuli

    Tobias Brosch;Dinkar Sharma

  • Measuring wanting and liking from animals to humans: A systematic review.

    Eva Pool;Vanessa Sennwald;Sylvain Delplanque;Tobias Brosch

  • The rise of affectivism

    Daniel Dukes;Daniel Dukes;Kathryn Abrams;Ralph Adolphs;Mohammed E. Ahmed

  • Additive effects of emotional, endogenous, and exogenous attention: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

    Tobias Brosch;Tobias Brosch;Gilles Pourtois;David Sander;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Culture-Specific Appraisal Biases Contribute to Emotion Dispositions

    Klaus R. Scherer;Tobias Brosch

  • Leveraging emotion for sustainable action

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  • Comment: The Appraising Brain: Towards a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Appraisal Processes in Emotion:

    Tobias Brosch;David Sander

  • Where is the chocolate? Rapid spatial orienting toward stimuli associated with primary rewards.

    Eva Pool;Tobias Brosch;Sylvain Delplanque;David Sander

  • Implicit Race Bias Decreases the Similarity of Neural Representations of Black and White Faces

    Tobias Brosch;Eyal Bar-David;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Unlocking the potential of smart grid technologies with behavioral science

    Nicole D. Sintov;P. Wesley Schultz

  • Cross-modal emotional attention: Emotional voices modulate early stages of visual processing

    Tobias Brosch;Didier Grandjean;David Sander;Klaus R. Scherer

  • The functional profile of the human amygdala in affective processing: Insights from intracranial recordings

    Ryan James Murray;Tobias Brosch;David Sander

  • Handbook of value : perspectives from economics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and sociology

    Tobias Brosch;David Sander;Fabrice Clément

  • INVITED REVIEW The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review

    Tobias Brosch;Gilles Pourtois

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sander
David Sander University of Geneva
Klaus R. Scherer
Klaus R. Scherer University of Geneva
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Sylvain Delplanque
Sylvain Delplanque University of Geneva
Didier Maurice Grandjean
Didier Maurice Grandjean University of Geneva
Daniela Schiller
Daniela Schiller Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Anthony Bateman
Anthony Bateman University College London
William A. Cunningham
William A. Cunningham University of Toronto
Martial Van der Linden
Martial Van der Linden University of Geneva
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University

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