Environmental Psychology Groningen
@epgroningen.bsky.social
Environmental Psychology department at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen 🍃
Read the full paper by Isabel Pacheco, Ellen van der Werff and Linda Steg here: "Circular citizenship behaviors: How individuals can promote systemic change toward a circular economy" @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social
Circular citizenship behaviors: How individuals can promote systemic change toward a circular economy
Sustainability challenges, such as transitioning to a circular economy, require people to engage in sustainable behaviors. Yet, current systems often …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Read the full paper by Isabel Pacheco, Ellen van der Werff and Linda Steg here: "Circular citizenship behaviors: How individuals can promote systemic change toward a circular economy" @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social
The @klimaatraad.bsky.social, the Dutch Scientific Climate Council, of which our colleague Linda Steg is a member, contributed insights to the report, providing a case study from The #Netherlands on water management and the related issues of land use and resilient infrastructure:
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The @klimaatraad.bsky.social, the Dutch Scientific Climate Council, of which our colleague Linda Steg is a member, contributed insights to the report, providing a case study from The #Netherlands on water management and the related issues of land use and resilient infrastructure:
Our colleague @zanmlakar.bsky.social (et. al.) studied how #socialtipping (based on game theory) can be used to examine which #consumer movements (like Extinction Rebellion) can lead to social change over time: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Social Tipping Games: Experimental Paradigms for Studying Consumer Movements | Journal of the Association for Consumer Research: Vol 9, No 4
Abstract Consumer movements like Extinction Rebellion are being increasingly examined for their potential to change current consumption conventions and thus facilitate societal-level change. Past cons...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our colleague @zanmlakar.bsky.social (et. al.) studied how #socialtipping (based on game theory) can be used to examine which #consumer movements (like Extinction Rebellion) can lead to social change over time: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
"Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change" (Madeline Judge, @thijsbouman.bsky.social, Linda Steg and Jan Willem Bolderdijk) www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change
To mitigate climate change, we will need to rapidly abandon unsustainable behaviors
and adopt more sustainable alternatives. Moralization can inhibit the diffusion of
novel sustainable behaviors, so m...
www.cell.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"Accelerating social tipping points in sustainable behaviors: Insights from a dynamic model of moralized social change" (Madeline Judge, @thijsbouman.bsky.social, Linda Steg and Jan Willem Bolderdijk) www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
You can find the full paper - "The psychological distance of climate change is overestimated" - by Anne van Valkengoed, Linda Steg and Goda Perlaviciute here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And other members of our group have also studied positive tipping points: 🧵
And other members of our group have also studied positive tipping points: 🧵
The psychological distance of climate change is overestimated
It is widely assumed that psychological distance (PD) is a major barrier to climate action: many people are not motivated to act because they perceive…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
You can find the full paper - "The psychological distance of climate change is overestimated" - by Anne van Valkengoed, Linda Steg and Goda Perlaviciute here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And other members of our group have also studied positive tipping points: 🧵
And other members of our group have also studied positive tipping points: 🧵
Een belangrijke boodschap voor politici die “de mensen thuis” willen vertegenwoordigen is dat de meeste mensen klimaatbeleid steunen en dat beleid dat klimaatactie makkelijker, betaalbaarder en aantrekkelijker maakt, meer kans heeft op brede steun en daadwerkelijk adoptie.
October 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Een belangrijke boodschap voor politici die “de mensen thuis” willen vertegenwoordigen is dat de meeste mensen klimaatbeleid steunen en dat beleid dat klimaatactie makkelijker, betaalbaarder en aantrekkelijker maakt, meer kans heeft op brede steun en daadwerkelijk adoptie.
In Nederland, waar 1.200 van de respondenten in het CAPABLE enquête vandaan kwamen, hebben ze ook gevraagd of ze zouden gaan stemmen, op welke partij en in hoeverre ze mitigatie en adaptatie steunden. Ze kwamen erachter dat steun voor klimaatbeleid de meerderheidsopinie was:
October 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In Nederland, waar 1.200 van de respondenten in het CAPABLE enquête vandaan kwamen, hebben ze ook gevraagd of ze zouden gaan stemmen, op welke partij en in hoeverre ze mitigatie en adaptatie steunden. Ze kwamen erachter dat steun voor klimaatbeleid de meerderheidsopinie was:
Een enquête van het CAPABLE project waar Thijs Bouman, Žan Mlakar en Goda Perlaviciute aan hebben meegewerkt blijkt dat veel EU-burgers verschillende vormen van klimaatbeleid steunen (zoals subsidies voor reizen met de trein en om huizen beter te isoleren)
capableclimate.eu/the-climate-...
capableclimate.eu/the-climate-...
The climate policies that EU citizens like (and those they don’t) – Capable Climate
capableclimate.eu
October 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Een enquête van het CAPABLE project waar Thijs Bouman, Žan Mlakar en Goda Perlaviciute aan hebben meegewerkt blijkt dat veel EU-burgers verschillende vormen van klimaatbeleid steunen (zoals subsidies voor reizen met de trein en om huizen beter te isoleren)
capableclimate.eu/the-climate-...
capableclimate.eu/the-climate-...