Research
My research lies at the intersection of social psychology, environmental psychology, and political psychology. I examine the social, emotional, and cognitive processes that shape judgments and decisions in environmental and political contexts. My lab examines broad interdisciplinary questions such as how socio-political groups and identities influence people's stances toward climate policy and perceptions of political polarization. We also examine basic psychological processes such as how attention intensifies emotion and perceptions of environmental risk. We use laboratory experiments, national surveys, field studies, and archival data.
In 2020, along with Sander van der Linden and Adam Pearson, I hosted a conference on Behavioral Climate Policy.
In 2017, I hosted the Colorado Climate Retreat, an interdisciplinary conference examining the interface of climate change and social psychology
Read about ongoing projects in the lab.
Lab web page: Environment, Decision, Judgment, and Identity (EDJI)