Learning about the Human Behaviour Change Project with Professor Susan Michie Robert West #behaviourchange #MCBCconference #MCBClaunch

At 4.30pm Brussels time (10.30am EST), I’ll be talking to European Parliament in a public hearing on "Climate change disinformation - International disinformation impact on the EU’s climate goals” along with @roozenbot & Jennie King (jkingy.bsky.social). Livestream available at multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreamin…

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We would love to officially welcome Dr John Cook John Cook to the MCBC! He researches how to use critical thinking to counter misinformation. Recently, he presented at our MCBC conference and at the European Parliament. See the link below for the recording 👇

Australia’s COVID-19 response: Who followed the rules and who 'got on the beers'? insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/19/austra… Zoe Leviston mental_oose

Preprint of the eco-anger research shared at Nature Feelz is available: psyarxiv.com/juc67 We found the most common cause of anger about climate change was inaction & apathy. Anger about govt inaction predicts greater action, lower distress. Zoe Leviston Teaghan Hogg mental_oose

Some of our findings from the Australian national bushfire health and wellbeing study are out now. In this Open Access paper, we report on experiences of distress and resilience following the 2019/2020 severe bushfire season. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change unequivocally supports the proposed Voice to Parliament. Its importance for health and social justice for First Nations people is clearly articulated in this recent piece by our colleagues in The Lancet (thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/…).

The Centre also deplores the increase in racism connected to debates about The Voice.

.Graham Readfearn from The Guardian delves into how I partnered with UNICEF & Sabin Vaccine Institute to co-design the crankyunclevaccine game in several African countries, pilot testing the game's effectiveness at inoculating against vaccine misinformation theguardian.com/society/2024/j…

The more you know: people with better understanding of Australia’s colonial history more likely to support moving Australia Day theconversation.com/the-more-you-k… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

We're excited to welcome Prof Kathryn Bowen, Deputy Director of the Melbourne Climate Futures, as the keynote speaker for the Risk Quotient 2024 on Feb 29. Registration to the #conference is still open! Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change events.humanitix.com/behaviour-chan… #intersectingrisks #academia

A new piece by Justine Dandy and me on the inequities of decisions to move when faced with destructive environmental change, with Naomi Godden, Pierre Horwitz, Deirdre Drake, and Francesca Perugia, Dr. (Centre for People, Place & Planet ANU Psychology)

New paper in JEVP: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Solastalgia is distress felt by those with lived experience of the environmental destruction of a cherished place. This paper is about an anticipatory form of solastalgia: current distress about anticipated environmental change.

In our new theory paper in BJSP, we review threat-based explanations of conservative climate denial and policy opposition and outline some testable predictions for research in this area: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Pleased to say our new article, “Consequences of group-based misperceptions of climate concern for efficacy and action” is finally out, with Tanvi Nangrani, Samantha Stanley, and @mental_oose: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (ANU Psychology ANU Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions) A few key findings... 👇

Keynote: The role of risk in informing climate change action – a help or a hindrance? Prof Katherine Bowen delivered a thought-provoking and foreboding address about the urgent transformations needed to live in a safe world in the face of the dire climate situation.

We're #recruiting! Join the #UniMelb team as a #Lecturer, Applied Psychology. Supporting the Master of Applied Psychology program, this full-time role will involve teaching, coordinating internships & facilitating research projects. Closing date: 10 April jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/916…

📢Have you experienced #housing disruption due to #disaster in Australia? Are you 18y or older? . UNSW & RMIT University are conducting a 10 min survey on how post-disaster housing recovery programs enable or constrain resilience to future disasters. Full info👇 . unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7T…