Dr. Janet Swim is a professor of Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. She is currently serving as chair of the College of Liberal Arts Sustainability Council, placing her into the PSU Sustainability Leadership Consortium. She is also a member of the universities climate change consortium and working with the Social Science Research Institute to facilitate research on environment and health.
She received her B.A. in Women's Studies and Psychology from Hope college in 1983 and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1988.
She served as chair of the first Psychological Association (APA) task force on Psychology and Climate Change and represented the APA Board of Scientific affairs on a follow-up task force. She was president of the Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology, She served on the APA council representing the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), served as a council member of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), and APA's Board of Scientific Affairs. She has worked with the United Nations to include psychological research in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change review of research. She received several APA Presidential citations for her work on Psychology and Climate change and received a distinguished service award from SPSSI.
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