Agenda
Climate actions from individual to collective
In this session, Cameron Brick will talk about public opinion on climate change and recent advances in measuring and conceptualizing pro-environmental behavior. Most previous studies assumed that pro-environmental behavior is a coherent psychological variable, but recent work suggests behaviors are external, diverse, and have different causes. His research group in social psychology focuses on the motivations and social processes that predict environmental behaviors such as reducing meat consumption, flying, voting, and protesting. He will also share a resource of free, open datasets and promote the diamond open-access journal Global Environmental Psychology (free for authors and readers).
Bio
Cameron Brick is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology with tenure and he supervises a research group in Environmental Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The group studies how individuals react to collective problems such as climate change and uses surveys and experiments to predict behavior from thoughts, identities, personalities, and social context. They also study consumer and household decisions from plastics to fast fashion, and communication effectiveness focused on the comprehension of policy options.