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Scaling Up Change: A Critical Review and Practical Guide to Harnessing Social Norms for Climate Action
The authors discuss how social norms can be harnessed for climate action, which can include efforts to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions through personal actions, policy support, or activism, and efforts to increase communities’ resilience and adaptive capacity to extreme weather events and other impacts of climate change.
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Video: Observing Earth Day With Psychological Science
In recognition of Earth Day 2022, we have collected and summarized flash talks that discuss the effects of nature-assisted rehabilitation on mental health, the risks of air pollution exposure during childhood, the motivations behind climate-related discussions, and more.
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Understanding ‘Scientific Consensus’ May Correct Misperceptions About GMOs, but Not Climate Change
Explaining the meaning of “scientific consensus” may be more effective at countering some types of misinformation than others.
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Understanding ‘Scientific Consensus’ May Correct Misperceptions About GMOs, but Not Climate Change
Explaining the meaning of “scientific consensus” may counter false beliefs about the safety of genetically modified foods. This same approach, however, is less effective in convincing skeptics that climate change is real and caused by humans.
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Surviving Ourselves When the Climate Changes
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Cultivating Cultures of Sustainability
Harnessing personalities and perspectives to create more sustainable societies.