My specific research area involves understanding environmental-relevant decision making, with a specific focus on climate change.
Being the lead to the American Psychological Association task force report on Psychological Dimensions of Climate Change formed my current research trajectory. This report ushered me into contributing the AR6 IPCC review of research on adaptation. I have written journal and chapter reviews to explain and encourage psychologists’ contributions to addressing climate change. These include a review in Nature Climate Change, a chapter for the Portuguese Psychological Association, a review for an international conference launching an international collaboration of country psychological associations to address climate change, a chapter on climate change health and adaption for the Handbook of Health Psychology, and a chapter for the Handbook of Political Psychology. I have also made connections outside of psychology through my grants with natural and other social scientist service and as director of the Penn State College of Liberal Sustainability council. In other papes, I highlight my research on climate change and note my current research. While not noted below, there are connections between my earlier research on intergroup relationships, as illustrated in a review paper on perceiving and responding to climate change (e.g., Swim & Bloodhart, 2018).
Being the lead to the American Psychological Association task force report on Psychological Dimensions of Climate Change formed my current research trajectory. This report ushered me into contributing the AR6 IPCC review of research on adaptation. I have written journal and chapter reviews to explain and encourage psychologists’ contributions to addressing climate change. These include a review in Nature Climate Change, a chapter for the Portuguese Psychological Association, a review for an international conference launching an international collaboration of country psychological associations to address climate change, a chapter on climate change health and adaption for the Handbook of Health Psychology, and a chapter for the Handbook of Political Psychology. I have also made connections outside of psychology through my grants with natural and other social scientist service and as director of the Penn State College of Liberal Sustainability council. In other papes, I highlight my research on climate change and note my current research. While not noted below, there are connections between my earlier research on intergroup relationships, as illustrated in a review paper on perceiving and responding to climate change (e.g., Swim & Bloodhart, 2018).