Environmental Psychology

Mindwise Podcast

Psychology and the Envrionment

about two approaches to lessening the human impact on global warming, the Paris Agreement, Donald Trump's decision to abandon it, and more. Which approach do you think will have a larger impact?
-recorded on 8 July 2017 (new window)

Solving The Surveillance Dilemma

Surveillance is a double-edged sword of social influence. Very effective on the short-term, but destructive to motivation on the long term. We investigate how surveillance affects pro-environmental behaviour and intrinsic motivation in a group context, and show how group identification counteracts the extrinsically motivating effect of surveillance.

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