Assistant Prof of Environmental Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Director of the Stanford Climate Cognition Lab https://climatecognition.stanford.edu
Madalina Vlasceanu, PhD
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New study finds that emphasizing collective efficacy (people's ability to catalyze large-scale change) is very effective in catalyzing behavioural change.
As you can see from my pinned post, I'm a big fan of simple messages that can mobilize public support for climate action!
Do you think negative emotions about climate change hamper climate-friendly beliefs and behaviors? 🚨 Our newly published paper might be for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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What makes behavioral interventions work beyond the psychological theory they implement? Their format, level of engagement, delivery modality?
In a new paper analyzing 274 interventions from 15 megastudies (4.1M+ participants), we tested 19 features: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Only ONE consistently predicted intervention effectiveness:
The interventions’ specificity to the outcomes measured.
No other features we tested here (attentional ease, presence of images, videos, or questions, length, conceptual construction, etc.) predicted interventions' effect sizes.
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How to Advance Climate Solutions Despite Political Setbacks | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/clim...
What motivates collective action, political participation, or civic engagement?
Stop by our symposium at #APS26BCN with talks from @dgoldwert.bsky.social, @anasabherwal.bsky.social, @smconstantino.bsky.social, and me.
🗓 May 29 | 12:30 PM
🌐 Room 129, (P1 Level, CCIB)
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Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou
Climate setbacks aren’t fate; they’re signals to mobilize visible public will, pairing credible hope with concrete action to turn widespread concern into sustained political power.
