Collected examples and resources for incorporating climate crisis and action into the psychology curriculum.

Curated by Anne Urai and Tobias Heed. To contribute, simply fork and PR (or get in touch with us): tobias.heed AT plus.ac.at

• TeachGreenPsych
• Elective by Clare Kelly: psychology of the climate crisis
• The Climate Crisis, book by Adam Aron
• https://osf.io/wk6a8/ Materials from Janet Swim, particularly strong on clinical (shared by Cameron Brick)
• https://osf.io/eq87n I gave a talk for Karolinska about teaching resources, see slides from #60 (shared by Cameron Brick)

• Social dynamics: behavioral norms change and tipping points
• Van Lange, P. A. M., & Rand, D. G. (2022). Human Cooperation and the Crises of Climate Change, COVID-19, and Misinformation. Annual Review of Psychology, 73(1), 379–402. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-110044
• Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Schmid, P., Fazio, L. K., Brashier, N., Kendeou, P., Vraga, E. K., & Amazeen, M. A. (2022). The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(1), 13–29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-021-00006-y

• Luo, Y., & Zhao, J. (2021). Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 42, 22–26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.02.010
• Perception of risk and uncertainty

• Default bias
• Temporal discounting

• Rae, C. L., Farley, M., Jeffery, K. J., & Urai, A. E. (2022). Climate crisis and ecological emergency: Why they concern (neuro)scientists, and what we can do. Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 6, 23982128221075430. https://doi.org/10.1177/23982128221075430

Isabella Uhl-Hädicke (2022). Warum machen wir es nicht einfach? Die Psychologie der Klimakrise. Wien: Molden Verlag, https://www.styriabooks.at/warum-machen-wir-es-nicht-einfach