Current Research Projects

Project Leader Project Title
Artho Savings in Travel Time, Passenger Traffic, Changes in Location, Assessment of Transport Infrastructure
Driver Inattention and Distraction’ as Cause of Accident: How Do Drivers Behave in Cars?
Evaluation of the Realigned Approach to Social Integration of Foreigners, Canton of Zurich
Social Scientific Foundations of Non-Technical Noise Prevention
Analysis of Survey Data among Alumni from University of Zurich
Siegrist Implicit and explicit attitudes toward people with disabilities

Completed Research Projects

Project Leader Project Title
Artho Design of intermodal interchanges
Evaluation of the communication campaign 'Holz: Energie, die nachwächst'
Evaluation of mobility management activities 'Verkehrsraum Herisau'
"CARLOS" Second Stage of the Evaluation of a New Transportation System for a Rural Area
Evaluation of a Media Campaign - Second Stage
Evaluation of 'Fussgänger- und Velomodellstadt Burgdorf' - Preliminary project
ECHAINE - Energy Wood Production Chains in Europe
Violence at sport events: Analysis of potentials and limits of fan projects
Contribution of the social sciences to practical energy issues
Evaluation of topten.ch
Evaluation of 'Emmental bewegt - sustainable mobility in rural aereas': First stage
Feasibility study RMS - Ride Message Service
Evaluation of the information campaign 'Holz' by the federal support program 'Holz21'
Evaluation of the Concept and Communication of Traffic Control during the EURO 2008 in Zurich
ADAM - Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies Supporting European Climate Strategies
Social-Scientific basics for an information campaign concerning traffic behavior in a new setting
Socio-Scientific analyses of the wood energy market in Switzerland
"CARLOS" - Evaluation of a New Transportation System for a Rural Area
Social-Scientific Situation Analysis of 'Verkehrsraum Herisau'
Evaluation of the media campagn 'facts against prejudices'
sWISH* - swiss landscape of wishes
Self-Responsibility as a Principle to Finance the Rudof-Steiner-School. An Analysis on the Situation.
Gutscher New forms of habitation? – An empirical study
Biotechnology and society
University of Zürich alumni survey 2007
Moser Individual und situational determinants of reciprocal behavior in knowledge and information sharing in groups
Ethical decision-making in interdisciplinary medical teams. Evaluation of a new model for group decision-making in intensive care in ethical dilemmas
Knowledge at work in organisations: The WiKo-Questionnaire for the measurement of knowledge cooperation in organisations
Knowledge at work in teams: communication, mental models and team roles in multidisciplinary teams
Metaphors of the self. How language, environment and self-cognition interact
Moser Götzmann Mental representations of self, body, and significant others after lung transplantation and its influence on compliance
Mosler Gutscher Contributions to sustainability in communities: Simulation-aided testing and diffusion of psychological forms of intervention.
Conception and analysis of an integrated, process-oriented theory of the group phenomena convergence, polarization, and minority influence
Schelling More ... – Well-being und social support among elderly people with cognitive handicaps who are living in private households. A follow-up to the Kaeferberg visitor study
Effects of Social Support on the Well-Being of Demented Institutionalised Aged
Seniors' attitudes about rationing of health care
Survey among elderly people in the Canton of Schaffhausen
The nursing home for the aged as a living space
Schmid Sustainable Management and Organisational Development of Street Children's Projects in Brazil Based on a Case Study of the "Chácara dos Meninos de Quatro Pinheiros" near Curitiba, PR
Siegrist Risk awareness and flooding
Expert and lay perception of health hazards associated with mobile phone base stations
Evaluation of medical training (yearly)
SAFE (Special Non-Invasive Advances in Foetal and Neonatal Evaluation Network)
Risk communication and natural hazards
Monitoring of the new Swiss transplantation law
Nanotechnology - Opportunities and risks
Perception of financial risks
General Trust and confidence
Architecture for handicapped persons - Psychological problems
Electromagnetic fields: Perceived risks, social trust and confidence
Tobias Situational cognitive effects on behavior-selection – Empirically founded computer-simulation of the effects of habits, memory-aids, implementation intentions, self-commitment and situational norms