Guardian ‘You’re browsing in a supermarket and fretting mildly about the air miles of some green beans. Or you’re daydreaming of that island holiday you deserve once the pandemic has died down but worrying about whether you should be flying. How about the amount of meat you eat and all that plastic it’s wrapped in? […]
This is an interesting article and it highlights the growing and impressive body of work by Mathew White and his colleagues in Exeter University and beyond. The combination of psychology and economic valuation provides lots of information and data on the value of natural environments not least to our wellbeing. Bob Earll Benefits of living […]
Understanding the psychology is the first step in effective communication Fiona MacDonald Science Alert ‘A lot happened in 2016, but one of the biggest cultural shifts was the rise of fake news – where claims with no evidence behind them (e.g. the world is flat) get shared as fact alongside evidence-based, peer-reviewed findings (e.g. climate change is happening). Researchers […]
Cabot Institute (7 May 2015). ‘Climate change denial in public discourse may encourage climate scientists to over-emphasise scientific uncertainty and is also affecting how they themselves speak – and perhaps even think – about their own research, a new study from the University of Bristol, UK argues. Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, from Bristol’s School of Experimental Psychology and […]