We are thrilled to announce that the 2024 Early Career Achievement Award has been awarded to Dr. Isabel Richter for her work co-creating the open-source journal Global Environmental Psychology and her applied collaborative research and practice worldwide.

If anyone doesn’t know, the {ggdist} package is THE package for plotting distributions. It produces absolutely gorgeous figures of analytic or data distributions. Aside from {ggplot2}, this is probably the package I use the most for dataviz.

Bill Bailey is not (only) a national treasure. He is an intergalactic joy goblin.

Excellent new review on how people value lives

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For the first time in my academic career - together with my co-authors (Jan Willem Bolderdijk and @hansrisselada) I gave up on the opportunity to formally publish my work in a journal.

It is not that the topic is not important (it is).
It is not that the work is bad (it is not [but we…

Hats off to three of my wonderful colleagues for the title, and subject, of this new open access paper sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨Happy to share our new paper with Environmental Psychology Groningen and Eawag colleagues, Goda Perlaviciute, Nadja Contzen, and Linda Steg. ⚡️We examined how trust in local and central institutions relates to public support of phasing out natural gas.
cc. Universidad de O'Higgins

🔎Some key ideas:

Intentions are not behavior. Self-reported behavior is barely valid due to inaccuracy. If a paper only has intentions, willingness, hypothetical support—these are not behavior. This is okay, we just need to stop completing the entire narrative loop without actual behavior.

Communicating evidence in icons and summary formats for policymakers: what works?, has finally been published in an issue at Behavioural Public Policy Behavioural Public Policy journal. open-access doi.org/10.1017/bpp.20…

If you're not using ChatGPT/LLMs for writing, it could be very easy for you to overlook how much others are using it. But not evenly. Judging thinking quality or character from writing is about to get much noisier, and it was noisy already. This affects my job in many ways.

How much of a unicorn is tennis?

Clark would make more for losing first round US Open (~$85,000) than she will from an entire season WNBA salary($76,535).

About 300 women earned more tennis prize money than that last year; 170 already have this year through just mid-April.

New postdoc & PhD positions TU München studying biodiversity, soundscape, and human health and wellbeing in cities on City Soundscapes project w/ Monika Egerer feda.bio/en/projects/bi…

I had the great honor to present the fantastic work of Solid Sustainability Research and the mapping fossil ties coalition at the EGU conference in Vienna.

Do you want to know more about universities' fossil ties or start your own research group? See mappingfossilties.org

enjoyed this article: nytimes.com/2024/03/15/wor…

Postdoc job alert!

The Collective Cognition Lab is moving moving to Stanford University in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability & looking for a postdoctoral scholar interested in the psychology of climate beliefs and behaviors.

Apply now: forms.gle/smfec81pMR8XzK…

Why do we choose big houses: to be happy? When it's a zero-sum status game, doubling everyone's house size does not make anyone happier. You remain at the same social status, but now everyone is poorer and spends more time cleaning.

Very fortunate to be part of this amazing initiative. Check it out! The Replication Database is a novel platform, hosting >1200 original findings paired with the corresponding replication attempts.
metaanalyses.shinyapps.io/replicationdat…

Can US climate nonviolent civil disobedience lead to greater public support for climate action?
What US climate protest actions are more (& less) acceptable by everyday people in public life?
A team (with @maibachEd) surveyed US adults buff.ly/43mzKW1
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