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Erkin Sarı
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PhD in #socialpsychology interested in personal and social dynamics of pro-environmental behavior change, morality, emotions, and group processes.
📝 Our article, which is the result of over three years of effort dedicated to developing a reliable and valid instrument for measuring pro-environmental behaviors within the context of Türkiye, has now been published!

dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/dtcfd...
PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS IN TÜRKIYE: A SCALE DEVELOPMENT STUDY
Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi | Cilt: 65 Sayı: 1
dergipark.org.tr
June 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Turkish social and cross-cultural psychologist Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı (1940-2017) has been inducted into the SPSP Heritage Wall, in recognition of her significant contributions to the fields of personality and social psychology.

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Cross-Cultural Psychology Pioneer Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı Joins SPSP Heritage Wall | SPSP
SPSP is excited to announce that Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı is the newest honoree on the Heritage Wall!
spsp.org
June 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
🧵 The first book written in Turkish on psychology of climate change, “Psychology and Climate Change: Contributions to Solutions and New Concepts,” is now published!

Edited by Assoc. Prof. Gözde Kıral Uçar, with a foreword by Prof. Susan Clayton, this book includes the following chapters:
May 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Abstract submissions for 9th British Environmental Psychology Society (4-5 Sept 2025) now open

📅 Deadline: 13 June

🔗 Submit here: nottinghampsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Open to ECRs, PhD students & established researchers.

#BrEPS2025 #EnvironmentalPsychology #CallForAbstracts
May 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Why do people fight for or against climate action?

Led by Prof. Matthew J. Hornsey, our new review article published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences delves into the moral arguments of collective climate action—on both sides of the debate: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
May 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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🚨 Boy, does this look like an important new paper on climate inequality!

"We find that two-thirds (one-fifth) of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% (1%), meaning that individual contributions are 6.5 (20) times the average per capita contribution." 🔥

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change
While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disprop...
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Our 2024 climate chronicles have just been published!

Check out the Collection: www.nature.com/collections/...

Thread below details all articles and their take-home messages.

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Climate chronicles
Climate chronicles brings together Nature Reviews Earth & Environment's annual series of 'Year in Review' articles.
www.nature.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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In data collected across 69 countries, CJ action was employed by children/youth/adults/elders in diverse ways – from activism (eg protests) to community-based initiatives (eg restoration projects) – aimed at systemic change to prevent future climate-driven harms.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
People’s action for climate justice: a systematic review
Increasing recognition of the multi-faceted injustices of climate change has led to growing interest in the actions people can take to advance climate justice (CJ). Yet, within the empirical litera...
www.tandfonline.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🚨NEW PAPER OUT🚨

Climate action helps mitigate climate change ♻️

Climate change harms the brain 🔥🌎🧠

Can climate action promote brain health? 🤔

We review in: Neuroscience and climate action: intersecting pathways for brain and planetary health

OA: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
👇 thread.
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me
April 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Climate Terminology Does Not Matter

Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...

via @dgoldwert.bsky.social
Climate Terminology Does Not Matter
Our new paper finds that swapping out one climate term for another does not meaningfully change people’s stated commitment to fight climate change
jayvanbavellab.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Interested in how psychology can help address climate change?

👇🏻 Here are some resources that could be helpful as a starting point. 🧵

#EnvironmentalPsychology #ConservationPsychology #ClimatePsychology #ClimateChange #BehaviorChange
April 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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How well do people understand the #climate impact of #behavior?🌱

In a new paper, we examine people’s climate-impact perceptions of different behaviors and lifestyles and whether these are linked to behavior and support for behavior-regulating climate policies 🧵

#GreenSky
osf.io/preprints/ps...
March 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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5-year environmental psychology PhD opening here at the UvA on the NWA project "ChangeAble; Accelerating Climate Action by Leveraging Behavioural Change"

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD Position NWA project "ChangeAble; Accelerating Climate Action by Leveraging Behavioural Change"
Would you like to make a meaningful impact while working on your PhD project? Together with researchers from various universities and institutions, you will work on a 5-year PhD project aimed at stren...
werkenbij.uva.nl
February 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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🎁 A little holiday treat 🎁
We have a new paper on climate action communication on #Twitter 🌍 We analyzed over 6.4 million tweets from 2021, including tweets from the general public and tweets from 'climate' scientists on @katharinehayhoe.com's "Scientists who do climate" list🧵
osf.io/preprints/os...
December 19, 2024 at 12:43 PM