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Anne van Valkengoed
@valkengoed.bsky.social
Environmental psychologist studying adaptation, pro-environmental behaviour, and behaviour change. University of Groningen.
Happy to be featured in this collection! Fantastic set of articles addressing key questions on climate change right now. Recommended reading!
Introducing the special inaugural double issue of Dialogues on Climate Change @dialoguescc.bsky.social, with 27 authors addressing the state of research in 20 articles on hotly debated topics!

Volume 1 Issue 1: journals.sagepub.com/toc/dcca/1/1

Volume 2 Issue 1: journals.sagepub.com/toc/dcca/2/1
April 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Anne van Valkengoed
Important paper by Andrea Byfuglien, @valkengoed.bsky.social and Stefania Innocenti on the importance of not equating intention/willingness measures with actual behaviour in studies of farmers' adoption of sustainable practices.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reposted by Anne van Valkengoed
A starter pack of academics, researchers, and organisations active in #EnvironmentalPsychology (the application of psychology to environmental issues, such as climate change, and human-environment interactions.

Let me know if you'd like to be added to this list (reply or dm)

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November 14, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Advice to cope with climate anxiety can range from meditation to recycling to protest to community building. In our new article, we set out to organise such coping strategies by introducing a new framework: the Climate Anxiety Compass 🧭 Open acces article below:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The climate anxiety compass: A framework to map the solution space for coping with climate anxiety - Anne M. van Valkengoed, Linda Steg, 2024
Witnessing the rapidly unfolding consequences of climate change, many people feel worried, stressed and anxious. While many suggestions on how to cope with clim...
journals.sagepub.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Climate anxiety represents a healthy response to climate change and should not be medicalized. But what does this imply for the people who suffer from climate anxiety and wish to reduce it? I explore this question in my new essay for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one.
"Climate anxiety" refers to pervasive worry and apprehension about climate change—which is a normal and healthy response to climate change, and one that can motivate climate action. It should, there...
thebulletin.org
November 14, 2023 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by Anne van Valkengoed
📗 Hot off the press: read our colleague Anne van Valkengoed's latest paper about why we should treat #climateanxiety as a mental health issue Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' special issue on #climatechange 📗

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 8, 2023 at 9:27 AM