Gregg Sparkman

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

York. View from the river Ouse.

Our department @yorkpsychology.bsky.social has 2 open lecturer positions (=tenure-track Assistant Prof). Social psych is one of the priority areas, so consider applying if you study social behavior, incl. intergroup relations, culture, environmental or media psych.

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

What will it take to mitigate climate change? Maximizing norm transmission and potency for change-accelerating outcomes Social norms will be key in coordinating populations to mitigate climate change. But currently, people presume others are divided or tepid about key m…

Read the full article here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How can norms address climate change?

In Current Opinion in Behavioral Science
@tabeamhoffmann.bsky.social
& I spotlight 3 goals:

1) Use broad signalling systems to boost norm transmission

2) Bolster the signals w/new norm approaches

3) Target change-accelerating outcomes

Full article in 🧵...

dang, I'll repost.

Notably, it was really hard to find any news headlines that echoed behavior + policy changes are needed to address climate change. It was much easier to find headlines that technology, philanthropists, or the free market would save us. There's clear room for improvement in news media!

Exposure to these narratives in media can be impactful on motives to take action. Contrary to my expectations, narratives that say 'it's too late to mitigate climate change, we can only adapt' did not clearly dissuade people from mitigation, it may just make the issue feel urgent 🧵...

Endorsing this combined solution is linked to greater motivation to take personal & political action. Interestingly, those who say 'only policy matters, behavior is just a distraction', don't really support policy more--suggesting the narrative serves another purpose (avoiding personal action?) 🧵...

Republicans & Democrats agree we need to combine behavior and policy changes--it's a/the top approach among Americans in both parties. Yet the public & policymakers share the same misperception: policymakers & the public think only half the country feels this way, even though it's 85%. 🧵...

Americans and policymakers underestimate endorsement for the most popular climate solution narrative, combining personal and political action - Communications Earth & Environment Americans support a range of climate solutions, including both policy and behavioral changes, but the public and elected policymakers often underestimate the popularity of these solutions, according t...

Hot off the 🌍 press: How will we solve climate change?

Comparing 20 approaches, 85% of Americans say we need BOTH behavior & policy change to address climate change!

But policymakers lag behind the public in endorsing solutions & underestimate how popular solutions are. 🧵
doi.org/10.1038/s432...

There are THOUSANDS of protests planned for June 14th all over the country to send a message to Donald Trump that no one wants his birthday military parade in DC that will cost taxpayers millions. #NoKingsProtest

You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map

1/7 🧵 We live in a biased social reality! 🤯

🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists.

My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social

This is great! There's so much speculation about how people feel about protest / protesters--its refreshing to compare those perceptions to actual levels.

Climate journalists broke a big story during Earth Week with the launch of The 89 Percent Project: Between 80% and 89% of people around the world want their governments to do more on climate change, but, critically, this overwhelming majority doesn't realize its the majority.

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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.

Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.

This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.

Take it here:

Hot off the press!

Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability?

Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed:
openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...

A graph showing that those who think global warming will pose a serous threat to them or their way of life rising from 25% in 1997 to 48% today.

This is huge 👀

A record-high 48% of US adults anticipate that global warming will pose a serious threat to themselves or their way of life, up from 44% a year ago and 25% in 1997.

When that number crosses 50%, we'll finally see some real action.

#ClimateChange

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨

If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.

🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

May be especially interesting for folks interested in climate communications: @katharinehayhoe.com, @unitedchurch.bsky.social, @cleanetwork.bsky.social, @fisherdanar.bsky.social, @writerknowles.bsky.social, @science.nature.org, @coveringclimatenow.org

Research shows that a majority of Christian religious leaders accept the reality of climate change but have never mentioned it to their congregations Churchgoers who think their religious leaders don’t believe humans are driving climate change are less likely to discuss it with fellow congregants or take action to mitigate the effects.

And see our media piece here: theconversation.com/research-sho...

Most Christian American religious leaders silently believe in climate change, and informing their congregation can help open dialogue | PNAS Religious leaders shape the attitudes and beliefs of their congregations. In a nationally representative sample of U.S. religious leaders (N = 1,60...

🚨New PNAS Paper w/@stysyropoulos.bsky.social 🚨
90% of US Christian religious leaders accept humans drive climate change. Sharing this info w/Christians boosts seeing climate action & voting for candidates who take climate action as consistent w/their church's values. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419705122

A Change of Heart? Why Individual-Level Public Opinion Shifted Against Trump’s “Muslim Ban” - Political Behavior Public opinion research suggests that rapid and significant individual-level fluctuations in opinions toward various policies is fairly unexpected absent methodological artifacts. While this may gener...

For those looking for encouragement to protest against ICE detentions: "a fury of protests across U.S. cities and airports... prompted some citizens to shift their attitudes." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Stand with Rumeysa Ozturk: Tufts PHD Student Abducted by Trump Administration Emergency Rally March 26 5:30 PM Powder House Square Park

There is a rally tonight in Somerville at 5:30.

Are you working on social simulations of #structuralChange, #transformations or (social) #tipping points?
Consider submitting your work to the Special Track on Modeling Transformative Change at #SSC2025!
ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl
Deadline for submissions is April 11th!

U.S. Capitol Building

Hey SPSP members! 👋 Proposed U.S. federal budget cuts would significantly impact psychology funding and research. We just published an Advocacy Alert with actionable steps you can take today.

Check out the link for ways to make your voice heard: spsp.org/news/spsp-n...

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott