The relationship between the climate change narratives a person holds and which type of climate messages this person consumes and trusts is a two-way street. 1/4 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share joint work with Ulf Hahnel and @sgluth.bsky.social on investigating how attribute translations - a widely implemented behavior intervention - lead to more ecological consumer choices. Main results are below, but check out our preprint 👇
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Excited to share our new review article in @natrevcleantech.nature.com. We synthesize evidence across disciplines to understand the psychological and contextual determinants of household clean #energy adoption 🏘️🔋

Free read: rdcu.be/epJUS
#GreenSky @psbclab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🌱 We are excited to share our latest research: The review article “Psychological and contextual determinants of clean energy technology adoption” is now published in @natrevcleantech.nature.com!

✏️ Read the full article here: rdcu.be/epJUS
🔒 Download here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Consumer decisions depend on context:

🟢 policy/political
🟢 built environment
🟢 personal/household socio-demography
🟢 personal/social motivations

These factors shape our green tech uptake. Interventions combining them all could be more impactful & effective.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🚨 Another open postdoc position "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana in Lüneburg 🚨
✏️ Apply here: s.academiccloud.de/Thqqfi (5 years, 100%)
🔗 The position is related to this PhD position: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

🧠 More information on the postdoc position:

🚨 We’re hiring! Join our research team in Lüneburg 🚨
🔬 Postdoc: s.academiccloud.de/8fEM2Y
🎓 PhD: s.academiccloud.de/vNbRHM
We're looking for researchers to work on the intersection between psychology and sustainability. Apply now or share with someone who should!
#Academia #PhD #Postdoc

New Publication in APA's Motivation Science!

We are excited to share our latest work: “Empowering Change: A Self-Control Perspective on How Choice Architecture Interventions Can Promote Sustainable Behavior Change” from Lukas Engel, Charlotte A. Kukowski & Ulf Hahnel. (1/6)

Check out the preprint here osf.io/preprints/ps... with open data, analysis and supplementary materials. Thanks to all coauthors (5/5)

New preprint alert with @tspampatti.bsky.social, Sebastian Gluth, Kim-Pong Tam and Ulf Hahnel! What messages about climate change do people consume? In our pre-registered three-country study, we find that people prefer to read messages that are aligned with their initial climate beliefs. (1/5)

10 lucky winners get to take home the groceries they selected during a food choice study. Our master student Lara is all smiles as she rewards the participants. Lara did a great job leading this research project with an incentive-compatible food choice task.

We had a great & inspiring PhD Conference last week. Doctoral students of the Society and Choice Program presented their ongoing research projects: plenty of fruitful discussions and exciting contributions. Thanks to the Doctoral Program and the Faculty of Psychology for hosting such a great event.

Combining solar panels with electric vehicles and heat pumps offers benefits for households by enabling the use of clean energy for transportation and home heating and for grid stability by balancing local energy demand and supply. But do households actually want to adopt this combination? (1/7)

How can behavioral science drive systemic change & sufficiency?
One Planet Lab's new Behavioural Design Guide explores psychological, cognitive & social factors shaping sustainable action. With insights from our team members Ulf Hahnel & Anne Günther.
Read more: www.one-planet-lab.ch/post/behavio...

New joint research with Doron Cohen and Ulf Hahnel out! doi.org/10.1017/jdm.... Can carbon labels increase sustainable choices? We find that, yes, labels significantly increased carbon-neutral choices. (1/4)