Matthew I. Billet
matthewibillet.bsky.social
Matthew I. Billet
@matthewibillet.bsky.social
Culture | Religion | Environmental Decision Making

Postdoc UC Irvine | PhD S/P Psychology University of British Columbia
Does anyone have recommendations for more recent textbooks on environmental psych / conservation psych? I love this one by Gardner and Stern, but it's quite outdated now. #APA34 #environmentalpsych #conservationpsych #sustainability
January 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
To some extent they did. When including our environmental motives in a regression predicting preservation and utilization attitudes, it reduced the relationship between political affiliation and attitudes by about half (β=−0.96 to −0.64 for preservation and β = 0.65 to 0.32 for utilization). 9/n
December 12, 2024 at 6:00 PM
In Study 2 we made a battery of self-report items that capture the wide variety of themes liberals and conservatives wrote about in Study 1. Then we subjected these items to factor analysis. We recovered 4 latent factors... 6/n
December 12, 2024 at 5:54 PM
We even found overlap in the most frequently discussed motives: Preserving nature because our survival depends on it, for the welfare of future generations, and because nature's beauty is valuable. (Figure 1). 4/n
December 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
New open access article assessing the common ground between liberals and conservatives on why nature is worth preserving. Turns out they share a lot in common!

I did this work with Adam Baimel (@abaimel.bsky.social ), Taciano Milfont, and Ara Norenzayan. 1/n

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 12, 2024 at 5:44 PM