Publications in English journals

  • Mader, Sebastian, and Simon Marmet (2026): The Problematic Behaviour Scale (PBS-5): A brief measure for the population-level screening of non-substance-bound addictive behaviours and Swiss national prevalence rates. Journal of Behavioral Addictions (online first).https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2025.00120.

  • Mader, Sebastian, and Axel Franzen (2025): Friends make us happy: Evidence from three European panel studies. Journal of Happiness Studies 26: 55. DOI: 10.1007/s10902-025-00888-2.
     
  • Mader, Sebastian, Damiano Costantini, Annette Fahr, and Marina Delgrande Jordan (2025): The effect of social media use on adolescents’ subjective well-being: Longitudinal evidence from Switzerland. Social Science & Medicine 365: 117595. Doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117595.
     
  • Mader, Sebastian, Matthias Grossrieder, and Sarah Kuhn (2025): Intergroup contact versus competitive threat. Does immigration change immigration votes? Evidence from Switzerland using objective municipality-level panel data from 2010 to 2020. Social Science Quarterly 106: e13477. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13477.
     
  • Franzen, Axel and Sebastian Mader (2023): The power of social influence. A replication and extension of the Asch experiment. PLoS ONE 18: e0294325. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294325.
     
  • Mader, Sebastian and Tobias Rüttenauer (2022): The effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 mortality: A generalized synthetic control approach across 169 countries. Frontiers in Public Health 10: 820642. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.820642.
     
  • Franzen, Axel and Sebastian Mader (2022): The Importance of Money Scale (IMS): A new instrument to measure the importance of material well-being. Personality and Individual Differences 184: 111172. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111172.
     
  • Mader, Sebastian, Malte Rubach, Wolfram Schaecke, Christine Röger, Ina Feldhoffer and Eva-Magdalena Thalmeier (2020): Healthy nutrition in Germany: A survey analysis of social causes, obesity and socio-economic status. Public Health Nutrition 23: 2109-2123. DOI: 10.1017/S1368980019004877.
     
  • Franzen, Axel and Sebastian Mader (2020): Can climate skeptics be convinced? The effect of nature videos on environmental concern. Sustainability 12: 2972. DOI: 10.3390/su12072972.
     
  • Franzen, Axel and Sebastian Mader (2020): Reply to the comment by Zhang and Fang (2019) on consumption-based versus production-based accounting of CO⁠2 emissions. Environmental Science & Policy 104: 52-54. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.11.005.
     
  • Mader, Sebastian (2020): Plant trees for the planet: The potential of forests for climate change mitigation and the major drivers of national forest area. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 25: 519-536. DOI: 10.1007/s11027-019-09875-4.
     
  • Franzen, Axel, Sebastian Mader and Sebastian Bahr (2019): Governing the commons: Why self-administered farm outlets flourish in Switzerland. International Journal of the Commons 13: 1079-1091. DOI: 10.5334/ijc.960.
     
  • Franzen, Axel and Sebastian Mader (2019): Do phantom questions measure social desirability? Methods, Data, Analyses 13: 37-57. DOI: 10.12758/mda.2019.01.
     
  • Mader, Sebastian (2018): The nexus between social inequality and CO2 emissions revisited: Challenging its empirical validity. Environmental Science & Policy 89: 322-329. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.08.009.
     
  • Franzen, Axel, Sebastian Mader and Fabian Winter (2018): Contagious yawning, empathy and their relation to prosocial behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 147: 1950-1958. DOI: 10.1037/xge0000422.
     
  • Franzen, Axel and Sebastian Mader (2018): Consumption-based versus production-based accounting of CO2 emissions: Is there evidence for carbon leakage? Environmental Science & Policy 84: 34-40. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.02.009.
     
  • Mader, Sebastian, Malte Rubach, and Wolfram Schaecke (2017): The impact of social fac­tors on the nutrition of German children and adolescents. They say you are what you eat, but do you eat what you are? Ernährungs Umschau 64(6): 96–100. e19–e22. DOI: 10.4455/eu.2017.022.
     
  • Franzen, Axel and Sebastian Mader (2016): Predictors of national CO2 emissions: Do international commitments matter? Climatic Change 139: 491–502, DOI 10.1007/s10584-016-1795-x.