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- 28-11-2023
Exploration of children’s value patterns in relation to environmental education programmes
The present study aimed to investigate the relationships between children’s endorsement of biospheric values, their pro-environmental behaviors, and their perception of their friends’ and peers’ endorsement of biospheric values. Moreover, we investigated whether these values and behaviors, as well as the hypothesized relationships, were affected by educational programmes that were already implemented at schools.
- 06-11-2023
Do people feel that citizen energy councils can play a meaningful role in the energy transition?
Our colleagues associate professor Goda Perlaviciute and junior researcher Wytse Gorter have just completed a new report about the Dutch Citizens Energy Council on how non-participants assessed the council’s discussion process and output.
- 23-10-2023
Dutch IPCC authors publish open letter for urgent climate policy
Alarmed by how important messages about the urgency of climate policy seem to barely get through to the public and government, the Dutch IPCC authors (including EP Groningen's professor Linda Steg, wrote an open letter to the Dutch Cabinet in October.
- 23-10-2023
Are we on the same page? Exploring the relationships between environmental values, self-identity, personal norms and behavior in parent-adolescent dyads
Environmental values, self-identity and personal norms are relevant factors predicting individuals' environmentally-friendly behaviors. These environmental motivations do not form in solitude but in social interactions, and as such could be shaped by the family context.
- 17-10-2023
PhD position for Climate Advocacy
We are looking for a PhD candidate on an interdisciplinary project on Climate Advocacy. The aim is to understand how climate advocates contribute to community-based climate adaptation and which psychological, socio-spatial and institutional conditions enhance their ability to mobilise fellow community members and realise change.
- 12-10-2023
Dealing with Climate Anxiety: Studium Generale event featuring EP researcher Valentina Lozano Nasi
Studium Generale Groningen hosted an urgent conversation about climate anxiety and how to cope with it on Tuesday, 10 October. The event - "Dealing with Climate Anxiety" - hosted by Meriam Tuinhof and held in the aula of the Academy Building at the University of Groningen - featured speakers Ernst-Jan Kuiper, professor Peter de Jonge and EP Groningen PhD candidate Valentina Lozano Nasi.
- 09-10-2023
Environmental Psychology Groningen featured in special climate and behavior edition of De Psycholoog
The latest edition of De Psycholoog (published by the Nederlands Instituut van Psychologen), focused on the theme of climate and behaviour, features three articles with staff and former students from Environmental Psychology Groningen.
- 18-09-2023
The group dynamics sparking social change: how group value in diversity predicts interactions with a deviant
Deviants are pivotal to sparking social change but their influence is often hindered by group dynamics that serve to maintain the status quo. This paper examines the influence of a group's value in diversity in deviant's ability to spark social change, with a unique focus on the experience and anticipation of group dynamics that enable minority influence.
- 13-09-2023
What kind of climate policies do environmental psychologists want from the new Dutch government?
Climate policy must play a prominent and urgent role in the upcoming Dutch elections and new session of parliament. Researchers from the Environmental Psychology Groningen expert group at the University of Groningen – Professor Linda Steg and associate professors Goda Perlaviciute and Ellen van der Werff – share some thoughts about what they would most like to hear from political parties as they release their election platforms, and more importantly what they want to see action taken on:
- 24-08-2023
Time to talk about values, time to say no: What drives public participation in decision-making on abstract versus concrete energy projects?
One way to develop more socially acceptable energy projects is by engaging people with different values (i.e., guiding principles in people’s lives) from early on in decision-making.
- 19-07-2023
From believing in climate change to adapting to climate change: The role of risk perception and efficacy beliefs
Are people more inclined to adapt to climate change if they believe that climate change is real, caused by human behavior, and/or brings negative consequences?
Who we are and what we do
The Environmental Psychology Groningen expertise group investigates how willing people are to make a personal contribution to the cause of combating climate change and which policies can effectively encourage sustainable behaviour.