Environmental Psychology Groningen
@epgroningen.bsky.social
Environmental Psychology department at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen 🍃
PhD Isabel Pacheco and co-authors Ellen van der Werff and Linda Steg found that people rarely engage in #circular citizenship behaviours. How can we access all that untapped potential for #systemicchange through more citizen action in the future?
Here's a thread on one of our recent papers🧵
Here's a thread on one of our recent papers🧵
Circular citizenship behaviours to promote systemic change: Influences of values, beliefs, norms, and personal agency
Environmental problems arise from our current societal and economic systems and could be alleviated by transforming such systems towards more sustaina…
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February 10, 2026 at 12:43 PM
PhD Isabel Pacheco and co-authors Ellen van der Werff and Linda Steg found that people rarely engage in #circular citizenship behaviours. How can we access all that untapped potential for #systemicchange through more citizen action in the future?
Here's a thread on one of our recent papers🧵
Here's a thread on one of our recent papers🧵
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💷⚡ Big boost for local green energy!
The UK is pledging up to £1bn for community-owned renewable projects. Local areas could control, profit from, and even lower bills with their own clean power. 🌱🏘
The UK is pledging up to £1bn for community-owned renewable projects. Local areas could control, profit from, and even lower bills with their own clean power. 🌱🏘
Miliband pledges up to £1bn for community green energy schemes
UK projects will allow local areas to control and profit from renewable power generation, says energy secretary
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM
💷⚡ Big boost for local green energy!
The UK is pledging up to £1bn for community-owned renewable projects. Local areas could control, profit from, and even lower bills with their own clean power. 🌱🏘
The UK is pledging up to £1bn for community-owned renewable projects. Local areas could control, profit from, and even lower bills with their own clean power. 🌱🏘
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Bijzonder hoogleraar Kim Poldner kan zich boos maken om schadelijke fast fashion bedrijven als Shein, maar haar academische werk - en persoonlijke missie - draait juist om wat wél kan: herstel, vernieuwing en toekomstkracht 👗👚🧦
Lees meer 👇
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Lees meer 👇
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February 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Bijzonder hoogleraar Kim Poldner kan zich boos maken om schadelijke fast fashion bedrijven als Shein, maar haar academische werk - en persoonlijke missie - draait juist om wat wél kan: herstel, vernieuwing en toekomstkracht 👗👚🧦
Lees meer 👇
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Lees meer 👇
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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ons collega Ellen van der Werff gaf vorig jaar een lezing over de signaalwaarde van beleid: "Als overheden, organisaties en instellingen duurzaam beleid invoeren is dat een extra duurzame context, waardoor beleid signaalwaarde kan hebben."
Denken mensen positiever over elektrisch rijden nadat de overheid een subsidie instelt?
Signaalwaarde van beleid: welke invloed hebben de descriptieve, injunctieve en dynamische norm op gedrag? Door prof. dr. Ellen van der Werff
consumentenpsycholoog.nl
February 9, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Ons collega Ellen van der Werff gaf vorig jaar een lezing over de signaalwaarde van beleid: "Als overheden, organisaties en instellingen duurzaam beleid invoeren is dat een extra duurzame context, waardoor beleid signaalwaarde kan hebben."
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🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER!
With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.
In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.
In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
April 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER!
With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.
In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.
In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Come work with us! @thijsbouman.bsky.social is seeking a postdoc (3 years, full time) to investigate the pension sector: preferences, expectations & actions relevant to the sustainability transition among participants (people with a pension) & professionals (pension providers & investors)
@rug.nl
@rug.nl
Postdoctoral Researcher Understanding personal and social factors that shape sustainability transitions in the (Dutch) pension and insurance sector - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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February 6, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Come work with us! @thijsbouman.bsky.social is seeking a postdoc (3 years, full time) to investigate the pension sector: preferences, expectations & actions relevant to the sustainability transition among participants (people with a pension) & professionals (pension providers & investors)
@rug.nl
@rug.nl
For project developers, informing #citizens and consulting them for feedback is often an afterthought. Our colleague Goda Perlaviciute has found that getting people involved from the earliest stages of a project and taking their input seriously can be a make or break approach for #acceptability.
To increase energy project acceptance, citizens need to be involved from the beginning
YouTube video by Environmental Psychology Groningen
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February 4, 2026 at 11:19 AM
For project developers, informing #citizens and consulting them for feedback is often an afterthought. Our colleague Goda Perlaviciute has found that getting people involved from the earliest stages of a project and taking their input seriously can be a make or break approach for #acceptability.
When it comes to projects facilitating the #sustainable #transition, citizens's trust in a developer can derive from either their competence (experience) or their integrity (transparency and principles).
Our research has found that integrity-based trust makes a bigger difference, but both matter.
Our research has found that integrity-based trust makes a bigger difference, but both matter.
What is more trustworthy: integrity or competence?
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February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
When it comes to projects facilitating the #sustainable #transition, citizens's trust in a developer can derive from either their competence (experience) or their integrity (transparency and principles).
Our research has found that integrity-based trust makes a bigger difference, but both matter.
Our research has found that integrity-based trust makes a bigger difference, but both matter.
Design can drive socially-desirable behaviour change, so our colleagues tested whether environmentally-focused packaging designs promoted recycling. They found that intention to #recycle, and actual recycling, increased with stronger #biospheric values. gep.psychopen.eu/index.php/ge...
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Design can drive socially-desirable behaviour change, so our colleagues tested whether environmentally-focused packaging designs promoted recycling. They found that intention to #recycle, and actual recycling, increased with stronger #biospheric values. gep.psychopen.eu/index.php/ge...
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Repair cafés across Wales have helped prevent more than one million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions by encouraging people to fix household items rather than replace them
Welsh repair cafés save over one million kilograms of carbon emissions
Amelia Jones Repair cafés across Wales have helped prevent more than one million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions by encouraging people to fix household items rather than replace them. The figure...
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February 3, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Repair cafés across Wales have helped prevent more than one million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions by encouraging people to fix household items rather than replace them
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Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
On 12 February, Marino Bonaiuto & Alessandro Milani and Edina Doci will talk about how #psychology can contribute to #sustainability at work. Our colleagues Brian Wagner and Ellen van der Werff are co-organisers of this ongoing colloquium series: www.tu-braunschweig.de/psychologie/...
February 3, 2026 at 8:22 AM
On 12 February, Marino Bonaiuto & Alessandro Milani and Edina Doci will talk about how #psychology can contribute to #sustainability at work. Our colleagues Brian Wagner and Ellen van der Werff are co-organisers of this ongoing colloquium series: www.tu-braunschweig.de/psychologie/...
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Annoying question: How do you make people take part in collective action on climate change?
This study points to two main things: it needs to feel like it's achieving something (effective), and it needs to make people feel good about themselves doing it. 🧪
Link: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
This study points to two main things: it needs to feel like it's achieving something (effective), and it needs to make people feel good about themselves doing it. 🧪
Link: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
January 28, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Annoying question: How do you make people take part in collective action on climate change?
This study points to two main things: it needs to feel like it's achieving something (effective), and it needs to make people feel good about themselves doing it. 🧪
Link: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
This study points to two main things: it needs to feel like it's achieving something (effective), and it needs to make people feel good about themselves doing it. 🧪
Link: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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📢 Postdoc opportunity | Consumer Behaviour & Sustainability (CBS)
🔬 The role
Experimental consumer research
Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments
📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable)
🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026
Feel free to share with anyone 🌱
🔬 The role
Experimental consumer research
Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments
📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable)
🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026
Feel free to share with anyone 🌱
Postdoc in Consumer Behaviour and Sustainability at the Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
MSC is looking for a Postdoc interested in experimental consumer research to join an international project on sustainable food consumption.
www.cbs.dk
January 29, 2026 at 8:39 AM
📢 Postdoc opportunity | Consumer Behaviour & Sustainability (CBS)
🔬 The role
Experimental consumer research
Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments
📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable)
🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026
Feel free to share with anyone 🌱
🔬 The role
Experimental consumer research
Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments
📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable)
🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026
Feel free to share with anyone 🌱
Professor Goda Perlaviciute explains how everyone has altruistic, biospheric, hedonic and egoistic values, and why all of them need to be taken into consideration when large-scale infrastructure, transport or sustainable energy projects are being planned.
These are four values that all of us have
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January 28, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Professor Goda Perlaviciute explains how everyone has altruistic, biospheric, hedonic and egoistic values, and why all of them need to be taken into consideration when large-scale infrastructure, transport or sustainable energy projects are being planned.
"Waterbewustzijn is het bewustzijn van watervraagstukken
– zowel maatschappelijke als individuele – inclusief kennis
over watersystemen, erkenning van risico’s en waarde,
en concrete gedragsbereidheid om waterveiligheid en
duurzaamheid te bevorderen."
– zowel maatschappelijke als individuele – inclusief kennis
over watersystemen, erkenning van risico’s en waarde,
en concrete gedragsbereidheid om waterveiligheid en
duurzaamheid te bevorderen."
De Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid (OVV) concludeert dat we niet bestand zijn tegen extreme regenval als gevolg van klimaatverandering. Nu niet en in de toekomst ook niet. Er is een ontstellend gebrek aan urgentie. Volgens mij is het wachten op een klimaatramp.
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Extreme regen vraagt om meer bewustzijn en maatregelen tegen onveiligheid
Nederland moet zich beter voorbereiden op de onveiligheid die ontstaat door extreme regen. Door klimaatverandering valt er vaker, meer en langduriger regen.
onderzoeksraad.nl
January 28, 2026 at 9:50 AM
"Waterbewustzijn is het bewustzijn van watervraagstukken
– zowel maatschappelijke als individuele – inclusief kennis
over watersystemen, erkenning van risico’s en waarde,
en concrete gedragsbereidheid om waterveiligheid en
duurzaamheid te bevorderen."
– zowel maatschappelijke als individuele – inclusief kennis
over watersystemen, erkenning van risico’s en waarde,
en concrete gedragsbereidheid om waterveiligheid en
duurzaamheid te bevorderen."
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Protected bike lanes FTW:
“Segregated cycle lanes – those physically separated from cars – were popular with both regular cyclists and regular drivers. Painted lanes on the road were far less liked, while the option of having no cycle lanes at all was the least popular with both groups.”
“Segregated cycle lanes – those physically separated from cars – were popular with both regular cyclists and regular drivers. Painted lanes on the road were far less liked, while the option of having no cycle lanes at all was the least popular with both groups.”
Why do people support or oppose bike lanes? Our research sheds light on public opinion
Research suggests that more consultation about cycle lanes would bring more support for them.
theconversation.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Protected bike lanes FTW:
“Segregated cycle lanes – those physically separated from cars – were popular with both regular cyclists and regular drivers. Painted lanes on the road were far less liked, while the option of having no cycle lanes at all was the least popular with both groups.”
“Segregated cycle lanes – those physically separated from cars – were popular with both regular cyclists and regular drivers. Painted lanes on the road were far less liked, while the option of having no cycle lanes at all was the least popular with both groups.”
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Yes, climate change can supercharge a winter storm. Here's how. grist.org/climate/yes-...
Yes, climate change can supercharge a winter storm. Here's how.
The jet stream, a warming Arctic, and loads of atmospheric moisture have contributed to an epic storm impacting 230 million people.
grist.org
January 26, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Yes, climate change can supercharge a winter storm. Here's how. grist.org/climate/yes-...
Professor Perlaviciute recently shared her research insights on public acceptability of sustainable projects, and how public trust depends on who is the developer is, how it is being developed, and how (and how soon) the general public is involved in the decision-making process
Public perceptions and acceptability of sustainable transitions depend on who is developing them, how they're developing and when the public is involved - Environment Psychology Groningen
Professor Goda Perlaviciute shares her research insights on public acceptability of sustainable projects, and how public trust depends on who is the developer is, how it is being developed, and how (a...
epgroningen.nl
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Professor Perlaviciute recently shared her research insights on public acceptability of sustainable projects, and how public trust depends on who is the developer is, how it is being developed, and how (and how soon) the general public is involved in the decision-making process
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Super-de-luxe fietspaden, extra breed, en met onderweg géén of zo min mogelijk verkeerslichten. Dat zijn de doorfietsroutes, de provincie Groningen telt er momenteel zes. Zo’n 17.000 Groningers fietsen er dagelijks overheen 🚲. #Groningen #fiets
Groningen trapt door: zes doorfietsroutes trekken dagelijks 17.000 fietsers
Super-de-luxe XXL-fietspaden, extra breed, en met onderweg géén of zo min mogelijk verkeerslichten. Dat zijn de doorfietsroutes, waarvan de provincie Groningen er mo...
www.groningenbereikbaar.nl
January 26, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Super-de-luxe fietspaden, extra breed, en met onderweg géén of zo min mogelijk verkeerslichten. Dat zijn de doorfietsroutes, de provincie Groningen telt er momenteel zes. Zo’n 17.000 Groningers fietsen er dagelijks overheen 🚲. #Groningen #fiets
Dat Amsterdam nu reclames voor fossiele brandstoffen verbiedt, wordt door tegenstanders weggezet als ‘symboolpolitiek’. Dat is geen zwaktebod, stelt deskundige Reint Jan Renes in dit opiniestuk: symbolen doen ertoe.
January 27, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Dat Amsterdam nu reclames voor fossiele brandstoffen verbiedt, wordt door tegenstanders weggezet als ‘symboolpolitiek’. Dat is geen zwaktebod, stelt deskundige Reint Jan Renes in dit opiniestuk: symbolen doen ertoe.
Helpt een verbod op fossiele reclames uitstoot te verminderen?Er is al ruim draagvlak voor het verbod op fossiele reclame. Niet alleen in #Nederland, maar in heel #Europa volgens onderzoek van Jan Willem Bolderdijk, @thijsbouman.bsky.social & E. Keith Smith capableclimate.eu/fossil-fuel-...
Helpt een verbod op fossiele reclames uitstoot te verminderen?
Het was een primeur, een jaar geleden: het verbieden van fossiele reclame in Den Haag. Lange vliegreizen, auto's met een brandstofmotor en vervuilende energiecontracten mogen daar niet meer op straat ...
www.nporadio1.nl
January 23, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Helpt een verbod op fossiele reclames uitstoot te verminderen?Er is al ruim draagvlak voor het verbod op fossiele reclame. Niet alleen in #Nederland, maar in heel #Europa volgens onderzoek van Jan Willem Bolderdijk, @thijsbouman.bsky.social & E. Keith Smith capableclimate.eu/fossil-fuel-...
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Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas. As we enter a global era of water bankruptcy we need water front and centre of agendas. Check out the new Water Security Atlas (second post) and my story in the Guardian. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds
Exclusive: Beijing, Delhi, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro among worst affected, with demand close to exceeding supply
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas. As we enter a global era of water bankruptcy we need water front and centre of agendas. Check out the new Water Security Atlas (second post) and my story in the Guardian. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Nederland moet zich beter voorbereiden op onveiligheid door extreme regen, waarschuwt de Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid (OVV).
Door klimaatverandering valt er vaker en langduriger regen. Volgens de OVV is Nederland niet goed voorbereid op de veiligheidsrisico’s van nu én straks.
Door klimaatverandering valt er vaker en langduriger regen. Volgens de OVV is Nederland niet goed voorbereid op de veiligheidsrisico’s van nu én straks.
Nederland nu én straks niet klaar voor extreme regen: ‘Zijn ons niet bewust van veiligheidsrisico’s’
Nederland moet zich beter voorbereiden op onveiligheid door extreme regen, waarschuwt de Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid (OVV). Door klimaatverandering valt ...
www.bnr.nl
January 22, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Nederland moet zich beter voorbereiden op onveiligheid door extreme regen, waarschuwt de Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid (OVV).
Door klimaatverandering valt er vaker en langduriger regen. Volgens de OVV is Nederland niet goed voorbereid op de veiligheidsrisico’s van nu én straks.
Door klimaatverandering valt er vaker en langduriger regen. Volgens de OVV is Nederland niet goed voorbereid op de veiligheidsrisico’s van nu én straks.