The researchers have contributed to 17 scientific journal publications over the course of 2024, with insights on many facets of environmental behavior, ranging from acceptance of technology, climate anxiety, climate change as a voting issue, social tipping, citizen assemblies, community energy initiatives, and public trust.
Here’s an overview and brief summary of each of the papers (co)authored by members of the environmental psychology Groningen research group:
The climate anxiety compass: A framework to map the solution space for coping with climate anxiety
We introduce the Climate Anxiety Compass: a framework that classifies strategies individuals can use to cope with climate anxiety along three dimensions: (a) problem-focused or emotion-focused, (b) mitigation or adaptation, and (c) individual or collective.
The public demands more climate action, not less
We explain in this essay why votes for new-right political parties should not be interpreted as votes against governmental climate action.
Social Tipping Games: Experimental Paradigms for Studying Consumer Movements
We introduce a collection of experimental paradigms that allow researchers to examine when and how consumer movements can provoke a change across a social network over time: social tipping paradigms grounded in game theory.
We investigated citizens’ perceptions and acceptability of citizen assemblies, both among the participants of the Dutch Citizen Assembly on Energy (DCAE) and the general Dutch population.
Community members’ involvement, but not external parties’ involvement, in community energy initiative (CEI) governance promotes perceived efficacy and identity leadership of the CEI, and thereby its acceptability and people’s willingness to join
A social network approach to community energy initiative participation
We show how social network theory can potentially aid the implementation of interventions aimed at attracting more participants in community energy initiatives with more diverse socio-demographic backgrounds.
Perceived value similarity and trust in institutions are higher when people perceive institutions to have stronger biospheric values than themselves and when they expect institutions to be less egoistic than themselves
Citizen assemblies should involve citizens as experts on their own values
Every step of citizen assemblies could be transformed to elicit citizens’ values: from citizen selection, to setting the remit, facilitating the discussion, and shaping and institutionalizing policy recommendations.
The aim of this paper is to develop and validate a scale to reliably measure people’s level of energy citizenship.
Do I Perceive That We as a Community Can Persist, Adapt Flexibly, and Positively Transform? The Relationship Between Collective Transilience and Community-Based Adaptation
Higher collective transilience is associated with increased engagement in different examples of community-based adaptation, even when controlling for individual transilience.
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change
We propose a dynamic model of moralized social change that provides insights on how novel sustainable behaviors spread over society and how to speed up this process.
Integrity-based trust in both local and national institutions better explained public support for phasing out natural gas than competence-based trust.
We find evidence that vegetarian labeling indirectly affects the intention to consume more meat substitutes by enhancing climate and health-related product evaluations.
We report findings from the first large-scale, cross-cultural study on the public opinion about oslar radiation management among the general public and students covering all inhabited continents.
We identified seven key attributes that could be important for the acceptability of Connected Automated Vehicles, namely: safety, instrumental, hedonic, control, symbolic, environmental, and trustworthiness attributes.
Exploring energy geography: Data insights on household consumption
Household energy consumption (HEC) varies across neighbourhoods and gender groups. This database provides data on HEC determinants and their estimated influence on HEC in the Netherlands.
