Anne van Valkengoed

Happy to be featured in this collection! Fantastic set of articles addressing key questions on climate change right now. Recommended reading!

We end with a comprehensive research agenda to improve the precision of psychological theories. There is much work to be done here for environmental psychologists! Especially formalizing theories represents a key step forward.

To overcome one barrier, we introduce a meta-theoretical framework to help people navigate the extensive environmental psychology literature. The MAP-framework (Motivation-Agency-Past Behaviour) synthesizes key insights from 8 main behavioral theories used to explain pro-environmental behaviour.

We give an overview of the current state of modelling lifestyle change and how it links to env. psy. We identify two barriers modelers run into when they want to use environmental psychology knowledge and theory to more realistically represent pro-environmental behaviour changes.

Lifestyle change is increasingly recognized as a critical pathway to CO2 emission reduction. Yet, realistically representing lifestyle change and its drivers in models is enormously challenging.

Representing the drivers of lifestyle change in Integrated Assessment Models using theories from environmental psychology: introducing the Motivation, Agency, and Past Behaviour (MAP) framework - IOPscienceSearch Representing the drivers of lifestyle change in Integrated Assessment Models using theories from environmental psychology: introducing the Motivation, Agency, and Past Behaviour (MAP) framework, van Valkengoed, Anne M, Perlaviciute, Goda, Steg, Linda

New publication alert! 🚨 In this article, we examine the role of environmental psychology in representing lifestyle changes in climate models.

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We end with a comprehensive research agenda to improve the precision of psychological theories. There is much work to be done here for environmental psychologists! Especially formalizing theories represents a key step forward.

To overcome one barrier, we introduce a meta-theoretical framework to help people navigate the extensive environmental psychology literature. The MAP-framework (Motivation-Agency-Past Behaviour) synthesizes key insights from 8 main behavioral theories used to explain pro-environmental behaviour.

We give an overview of the current state of modelling lifestyle change and how it links to env. psy. We identify two barriers modelers run into when they want to use environmental psychology knowledge and theory to more realistically represent pro-environmental behaviour changes.

Lifestyle change is increasingly recognized as a critical pathway to CO2 emission reduction. Yet, realistically representing lifestyle change and its drivers in models is enormously challenging.

Diagram showing the relationship between strength of self-reported intentions to apply and final application, demonstrating large disparity between the two.

Important paper by Andrea Byfuglien, @valkengoed.bsky.social and Stefania Innocenti on the importance of not equating intention/willingness measures with actual behaviour in studies of farmers' adoption of sustainable practices.
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A starter pack of academics, researchers, and organisations active in #EnvironmentalPsychology (the application of psychology to environmental issues, such as climate change, and human-environment interactions.

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That's lovely to hear, thank you 😁 Yes, I agree! My talk focused specifically on IAMs/climate models, but the challenge of modelling human behaviour appears in a lot of domains. For water models, psychological theories+findings on the drivers of specifically adaptation behaviour could be relevant!

The climate anxiety compass: A framework to map the solution space for coping with climate anxiety - Anne M. van Valkengoed, Linda Steg, 2024 Witnessing the rapidly unfolding consequences of climate change, many people feel worried, stressed and anxious. While many suggestions on how to cope with clim...

Advice to cope with climate anxiety can range from meditation to recycling to protest to community building. In our new article, we set out to organise such coping strategies by introducing a new framework: the Climate Anxiety Compass 🧭 Open acces article below:

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Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one. "Climate anxiety" refers to pervasive worry and apprehension about climate change—which is a normal and healthy response to climate change, and one that can motivate climate action. It should, there...

Climate anxiety represents a healthy response to climate change and should not be medicalized. But what does this imply for the people who suffer from climate anxiety and wish to reduce it? I explore this question in my new essay for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social

📗 Hot off the press: read our colleague Anne van Valkengoed's latest paper about why we should treat #climateanxiety as a mental health issue Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' special issue on #climatechange 📗

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