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PSCA Joint Research Group
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Psychology of Sustainability & Collective Action 🌍🌱

Joint research group at @LeuphanaLüneburg & @UniBasel, exploring climate and energy-related judgment and decision-making around the world.
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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/...
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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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...
Computational Mechanisms of Attribute Translations
Attribute translations, a choice architecture intervention technique aiming to promote behavior change by translating decision-relevant information into more comprehensible and meaningful units for la...
www.researchsquare.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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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...
Psychological and contextual determinants of clean energy technology adoption - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Consumer adoption of clean technologies is needed to reduce emissions and meet climate targets, but psychological and contextual barriers slow and even prevent uptake. This Review examines these barri...
www.nature.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🌱 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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Psychological and contextual determinants of clean energy technology adoption
Nature Reviews Clean Technology - Consumer adoption of clean technologies is needed to reduce emissions and meet climate targets, but psychological and contextual barriers slow and even prevent...
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June 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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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...
Psychological and contextual determinants of clean energy technology adoption - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Consumer adoption of clean technologies is needed to reduce emissions and meet climate targets, but psychological and contextual barriers slow and even prevent uptake. This Review examines these barri...
www.nature.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🚨 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:
Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...
Hub Science Project “Psychology of Transformation towards Sustainability”: Doctoral Research Associate with a background in Psychology or a related field
www.leuphana.de
June 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🚨 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
May 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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)
May 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Check out the preprint here osf.io/preprints/ps... with open data, analysis and supplementary materials. Thanks to all coauthors (5/5)
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March 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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)
March 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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.
February 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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.
February 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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)
February 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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...
Erkenntnisse aus der Verhaltenswissenschaft zur Förderung von Systemwandel und Suffizienz durch behavioral change (behavioural change)
In diesem Leitfaden geht es darum, diese Erkenntnisse aus der Verhaltenswissenschaft für unsere systemische Arbeit zu nutzen.
www.one-planet-lab.ch
February 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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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)
January 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM