Publications of Odette Wegwarth

Giese, H., Stok, F. M., Gaissmaier, W., & Wegwarth, O. (2025). A social network perspective on social cues for COVID risk perception. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 15118. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99673-7

Schulz, P., Wegwarth, O., & Giese, H. (2025). Risk expression using likelihood ratios and natural frequencies in Bayesian inference tasks: A preregistered randomized-controlled crossover trial. BMC Medical Education, 25, Article 505. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-06990-6

Wegwarth, O., Pfoch, M., Spies, C., Möckel, M., Schaller, S. J., Wehler, M., & Giese, H. (2025). Tolerance for uncertainty and medical students' specialty choices: A myth revisited. Medical Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15610

Abels, W., Reinhardt, K., Neugebauer, E., Wulkotte, E., Toubekis, E., Piedmont, S., Born, S., Rieck, T., Wegwarth, O., Spies, C., Schlattmann, P., Schwarzkopf, D., & Fleischmann-Struzek, C. (2024). Improving prevention and early detection of sepsis among patient groups at risk: Introducing a model for a multimodal information campaign. The SepWiss study protocol. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0305107. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305107

Amelunxen, C., Bielecki, M., Wegwarth, O., & Funk, G.-C. (2024). The evidence effect: How fact boxes shift perceptions of lung cancer screening in Austrian medical practice. Cancer Medicine, 13(23), Article e70453. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.70453

Franzen, D., Müller-Birn, C., & Wegwarth, O. (2024). Communicating the privacy-utility trade-off: Supporting informed data donation with privacy decision interfaces for differential privacy. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1145/3637309

Giese, H., Neth, H., Wegwarth, O., Gaissmaier, W., & Stok, F. M. (2024). How to convince the vaccine-hesitant? An ease-of-access nudge, but not risk-related information increased Covid vaccination-related behaviors in the unvaccinated. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 16(1), 198–215. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12479

Giese, H., Wegwarth, O., & Gaissmaier, W. (2024). Effects of experimental, network-based social circle norm feedback on studying behavior and alcohol consumption. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 16(4), 2116–2128. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12582

Wegwarth, O., Hertwig, R., Giese, H., & Fineberg, H. V. (2024). The impact of nontransparent health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic on vaccine-hesitant people's perception of vaccines. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, Article 1256829. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1256829

Wegwarth, O., Hoffmann, T. C., Goldacre, B., Spies, C., & Giese, H. A. (2024). General practitioners' risk literacy and real-world prescribing of potentially hazardous drugs: A cross-sectional study. BMJ Quality & Safety, 33(10), 634–641. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2023-016979