Decision Psychology presents a talk featuring Wändi Bruine de Bruin of The University of Southern California
To request a Zoom Link to this talk, contact Mike DeKay dekay.3@osu.edu
Title: Psychology and climate change communications
Abstract: Climate change communications are produced by climate scientists in the IPCC, UK Met Office, and other organizations, for audiences without a background in climate science. In this presentation, I will discuss how psychologists can help to inform climate change communications. The key lessons learned will also be relevant for developing communications about other policy topics.
Bio
Wändi Bruine de Bruin is Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology and Behavioral Science at the University of Southern California, where she is affiliated with the Sol Price School of Public Policy, the Dornsife Department of Psychology, the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, the Center for Economic and Social Research, the Center for Sustainability Solutions, and the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE). Wändi holds a PhD in Behavioral Decision Research and Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. Before coming to USC, she spent 7 years at the University of Leeds, where she directed the Centre for Decision Research and was deputy director of the Priestley International Centre on Climate. Wändi’s research uses insights and methods from behavioral science and psychology to understand and inform how individuals make decisions, about a wide variety of topics, including climate change and its impacts, sustainability, personal health, and household finance. She has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers on these topics, in academic journals in psychology, environmental science, engineering, public health, and other fields. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, the Journal of Risk Research, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Psychology and Aging, Decision, and Medical Decision Making. She has served on several expert panels on risk and science communication, including at the National Academy of Sciences and the Council of the Canadian Academies.