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Currently reading Sinclair et al. (2025) on “Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change”

July 8, 2025

Why do people fail to act against climate change, and what interventions could make them act? That’s what Sinclair et al. (2025) investigate in an “intervention tournament”!

Currently reading about how appealing to fear is effective in positively influencing behavior, and hardly ever backfires (Tannenbaum et al., 2015). Who would have thought?

January 2, 2024

Fear can lead to fight, flight, or freeze responses — or so we often hear. So far, I was under the impression that fear was generally not a good emotion…

Wamsler et al. (2021)’s literature review on “Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action”, and “Inner Development Goals”

February 3, 2023

Especially when it comes to teaching about climate change or sustainability more generally, it seems unavoidable to really consider mental states. While the dominant discourse around climate change has been…

Communicating Climate Change — a book you should definitely know about!

October 18, 2018

In a presentation about science communication I gave on Monday, I recommended a couple of resources for scientists interested in science communication. For example the amazing climatevisuals.org for advice on which images…

Seeing is believing — A #scipoem

October 30, 2017

Seeing is believing Climate change communication Needs a good vis’alization Political protesters and politicians should best be shunned to avoid defens’ve reaction’. Show behaviour in relation: not one car, but…

What you know about science is not necessarily what you believe about science

June 7, 2017

I’ve been working in science communication research for a good half a year now, and my views on outreach are constantly evolving. When I applied for this job, I was…

Communicating climate change to young people

November 3, 2014

How do we talk about climate change in a way that will engage young people? I don’t know about you, but I sometimes get slightly tired of talking about climate…

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Currently reading Sinclair et al. (2025) on “Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change”

Currently reading about how appealing to fear is effective in positively influencing behavior, and hardly ever backfires (Tannenbaum et al., 2015). Who would have thought?

Wamsler et al. (2021)’s literature review on “Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action”, and “Inner Development Goals”

Communicating Climate Change — a book you should definitely know about!

Seeing is believing — A #scipoem

What you know about science is not necessarily what you believe about science

Communicating climate change to young people

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