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Responding to the Threat of Climate Change
Dan Gilbert speaks at Pop!Tech 2007 on why the threat of climate change fails to trigger alarms.
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Thomas Joseph Doherty: Ecopsychology
In plain language, the mission of ecopsychology is to validate that an emotional connection to nature is normal and healthy.
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Thinking about “The Green Mind”
How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit?
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Janis Dickinson: Immortality Ideologies and Climate Change | Ecology and Society
I propose that unconscious defenses identified by terror management theory can both block and promote rational responses to global climate change.
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Psychology and Global Climate Change | American Psychological Association
Barriers to urgency include: Uncertainty, Mistrust, Denial, Undervaluing Risks, Lack of Control, Habit.
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Colin Ellard: Why We Get Lost | SciAm
Some of our basic inabilities to understand how spaces are connected to one another and how we fit into the picture is a part of what is responsible for our failure to protect our environment.
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Anthony Leiserowitz: Climate and Risk Perception
Americans seem concerned about global warming, yet view it as less important than nearly all other national or environmental issues. What explains this paradox?
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Anthony Leiserowitz: Climate and Risk Perception
Americans seem concerned about global warming, yet view it as less important than nearly all other national or environmental issues. What explains this paradox?
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Humanizing Conservation | Science
Ecological psychologist Edward Reed warned that "it may well be a race against time to see whether we can come to understand our way of life before it destroys the only home we have"
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Mark van Vugt: Information, Identity, Institutions and Incentives | NewScientist
Information, identity, institutions and incentives correspond to what most psychologists believe are the four core motives that influence our decision-making in social dilemmas, respectively understanding, belonging, trusting and self-enhancing.
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Tom Crompton and Tim Kasser: Identity Campaigning
We suggest that there are certain aspects of the human psyche that create proclivities towards unsustainable behaviour. It seems to us that today’s environmentalism by and large either retreats from confronting these aspects of identity, choosing to ignore them, or alternatively attempts to ‘work with’ them, trying to co-opt them to serve environmental purposes. Unfortunately, as we shall see, co-opting them risks making these environmentally problematic aspects of identity even more prevalent.
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John Seely Brown: Blended Epistemology
In a rapidly changing world, the biggest obstacle to innovation is wisdom. Why is that? Because wisdom is based on authority, and authority is based on experiences and assumptions that, by and large, are no longer valid.
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Climate, Information, Perception and Behavior
Connie Roser-Renouf and Matthew Nisbet survey and evaluate a wide range of studies on climate-change related values, opinions, perceptions, preferences, knowledge and behavior.
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Climate, Information, Perception and Behavior
Connie Roser-Renouf and Matthew Nisbet survey and evaluate a wide range of studies on climate-change related values, opinions, perceptions, preferences, knowledge and behavior.
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Climate, Worldviews and Cultural Theory
This typology plots acceptance of social controls against levels of social commitment to derive four worldviews.
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Climate, Worldviews and Cultural Theory
This typology plots acceptance of social controls against levels of social commitment to derive four worldviews.
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