Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Laura M. König

 

Head of Health Psychology Group
Wächtergasse 1 / 504 / D08

laura.koenig@univie.ac.at
X @LauraMKoenig

Professional Record

since 2023
University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology
2020 to 2023University of Bayreuth, Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health
2020University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
2014 to 2020University of Konstanz, Department of Psychology

 

 

Education

2018
Ph.D., University of Konstanz, Department of Psychology

Awards and Honours

2022: Stan Maes Early Career Award 2022 of the European Health Psychology Society

2018: Stiftung-Schmieder-Preis 2018 of the Stiftung Schmieder für Wissenschaft und Forschung for the dissertation
The video produced for the award ceremony is available [here].

 

Service

Membership in advisory groups

since 2022: Member of an expert committee developing a curricula eHealth in the German Psychology Society (DGPs)

 Membership in editorial boards

Editor-in-Chief, In-Mind Magazin (German edition)

Associate Editor, Health Psychology Review

Cogent Psychology

European Journal of Health Communication

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Zeitschrift für Psychologie

Positions in professional organisations

since 2022: German Nutrition Society (DGE e.V.), subdivision Public Health Nutrition
Member of the steering committee

Publications

Western, M. J., Smit, E. S., Gültzow, T., Neter, E., Sniehotta, F. F., Malkowski, O. S., Wright, C., Busse, H., Peuters, C., Rehackova, L., Oteșanu, A. G., Ainsworth, B., Jones, C. M., Kilb, M., Rodrigues, A. M., Perski, O., Wright, A., & König, L. (2025). Bridging the digital health divide: a narrative review of the causes, implications, and solutions for digital health inequalities. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 13(1), Article 2493139. https://doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2025.2493139
Zezelj, I., Petrović, M., Lazić, A., Purić, D., Knezevic, G., Lazarevic, L. B., Stanković, S., Ninković, M., Adamkovic, M., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Alper, S., Amin, R., Arriaga, P., Bajšanski, I., Bakaitytė-Bagdon, A., Barzykowski, K., Birtel, M. D., Boudoukha, A. H., Bucourt, É., ... Žukauskien, R. (2025). Common drivers of questionable health behaviours identified across 33 countries and five continents. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tkj7u_v1
TISP conspiracy group (2025). Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world. Nature Climate Change, 15, 725-735. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02372-4
TISP conspiracy group (2025). Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset. Scientific Data, 12(1), 114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04100-7
Arigo, D., & König, L. M. (2024). Examining reactivity to the measurement of physical activity and sedentary behavior among women in midlife with elevated risk for cardiovascular disease. Psychology and Health, 39(3), 319-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2022.2055024
Delga, F., Bitsch, L., König, L. M., Beitze, D. E., Scherbaum, V., & Podszun, M. C. (2024). Dietary supplement use among lactating mothers following different dietary patterns – an online survey. Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40748-023-00171-3
Giese, H., & König, L. M. (2024). The impact of incentivization on recruitment, retention, data quality, and participant characteristics in Ecological Momentary Assessments: Experimental study. Journal of Trial and Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/28b4-4f59
Jakob, R., Narauskas, J., Fleisch, E., König, L. M., & Kowatsch, T. (2024). Factors associated with adherence to a public mobile nutritional health intervention: retrospective cohort study. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 15, 100445. Article 100445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2024.100445
König, L. M., Schupp, H. T., & Renner, B. (2024). A matter of the metric? Sugar content overestimation is less pronounced in sugar cubes versus grams. Nutrition Research, 131, 111-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nutres.2024.09.007
König, L. M., Akad, E., Gunawan, G., Rocha-González, D. V., & Dorlach, T. (2024). Comparing the impact of Nutri-Score and nutrition warning labels on product perceptions: Online experiments in Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey. PsyArXiv. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vsmjx
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