NEW DIRECTIONS IN CONSERVATION PSYCHOLOGY WEBINAR SERIES Facilitating Pro-Environmental Behavior: An Overview of the Research Tuesday, February 6, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST The integrity of conservation psychology as a field of research and practice is grounded in rigorous research. This webinar will feature an overview of relevant research, introduction to one empirically tested approach to facilitating behavior change, illustrated by the example of a recent study on fossil fuel divestment Presenter: Abigail Abrash Walton, PhD Antioch University New England
N E W D I R E C T I O N S I N C O N S E R V A T I O N P S Y C H O L O G Y W E B I N A R S E R I E S Webinar Logistics • Everyone should be connected via Audio Broadcast upon entering the webinar – You do not need to call in and you are automatically muted The presentation will be recorded and posted to the Antioch web site within • one week Please submit any questions you have for the presenter in the Q& A section • If you are having trouble with any aspect of the broadcast, use the Chat section • to message the Host directly
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CONSERVATION PSYCHOLOGY WEBINAR SERIES Facilitating Pro-Environmental Behavior: An Overview of the Research Tuesday, February 6, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST • Overview & Introductions • Joy Whiteley Ackerman, PhD • Presentation • Abigail Abrash Walton, PhD • Discussion & Audience Questions Moderator: Dr. Joy Whiteley Ackerman, Antioch University New England
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CONSERVATION PSYCHOLOGY WEBINAR SERIES Dr. Abigail Abrash Walton serves as co-director of both Antioch's Conservation Psychology Institute and Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience and as faculty in the Department of Environmental Studies, where she directs the Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability master's degree concentration. Under her leadership, Antioch has developed and advanced a range of sustainability and social justice initiatives. Her public engagement, research, and teaching focus on change leadership, facilitating pro- environmental behavior, and translating values into effective action, particularly regarding environmental and social performance. She enjoys the spirit and practice of innovation and has played a central role in launching Antioch's Conservation Psychology Institute and Presenter: Translating Research to Inform Policy workshops and in catalyzing a Dr. Abigail national-level working group to build the capacity of scientists and Abrash Walton researchers to engage with the public policy process.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CONSERVATION PSYCHOLOGY WEBINAR SERIES Dr. Joy Ackerman is a Core Faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department at Antioch University New England, where she serves as Director of Conservation Psychology. Joy teaches graduate courses including Conservation Psychology, Ecological Thought, and Making Sense of Place. Joy advises students in the Conservation Psychology Certificate Program, the Self-Designed M.S. in Environmental Studies, and doctoral students with interests in spirituality, place and nature experience. She received her Ph.D. in environmental studies from Antioch University, focusing on sacred geography through researching Walden Pond as a place of pilgrimage. She is interested in the phenomenology of place experience, environmental and Moderator: ecological identity, and how people experience, develop and Dr. Joy Ackerman articulate their connection with nature.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CONSERVATION PSYCHOLOGY WEBINAR SERIES Creating a Conservation Movement Tuesday, March 20, 2018 Have you noticed that some environmental movements 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST seem to suddenly “take off”, like going organic, whereas others seem to struggle with gaining widespread adoption, like reusable shopping bags? In this webinar we’ll dig into the Diffusion of Innovations Theory (Rogers, 2003) that explains how these movements start in the first place, and what turns a movement into a social norm that sticks. In addition to exploring the theory of social norms, this presentation will also identify the behavioral underpinnings for why they occur and how these behavioral insights can be used to motivate greater adoption of conservation Presenter: Brooke Tully behaviors.
Conservation “ the scientific study of Psychology is the reciprocal relationships between humans and the rest of nature, with a particular focus on how to encourage conservation of the natural world .” (Saunders, 2003, p. 138) Image source: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/hledej.php?hleda=crystal+ball
What [conservation practitioners] need are trained people, useful methods, and tested knowledge that they can use to improve their day-to-day work. (Salafsky, 2003, p. 176)
The Anthropocene Epoch & Homo Sapiens Environmental solutions = human behavior change (Heberlein, 2012; Saunders, 2003; Schultz, 2011, 2013; Stern, 2000a) Image source: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2013/10/geological-anthropocene-era /
• Osbaldiston, R. (2013). Synthesizing the experiments and theories of conservation psychology. Sustainability , 5(6), 2770-2795. • Osbaldiston, R., & Schott, J.P. (2012). Environmental Sustainability and behavioral science: Meta-analysis of proenvironmental behavior experiments. Environment and Behavior , 44, 257-299.
Most experimental research on conservation behaviors has focused on a small set of behaviors, principally at the household * Recycling level. * Conservation of energy, water, gasoline Image source: http://canacopegdl.com/synonym/household.html
Human Activities Are the Primary Driver of Recent Global Temperature Rise Source: USGCRP, 2017: Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I [Wuebbles, D.J., D.W. Fahey, K.A. Hibbard, D.J. Dokken, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, 470 pp, doi: 10.7930/J0J964J6. https://science2017.globalchange.gov/
The Phenomenon Image Source: www.divestinvest.org/philanthropy/
Source: DivestInvest.org (2017)
$5.5 trillion Source: DivestInvest.org (2017)
Fossil Fuel Divested Assets (Pledged/Actual) and Global Stock Market Value Data sources: Arabella Advisors (2016); DivestInvest.org (2017); VisualCapitalist.com (n.d.) US $5.5 trillion US $63.5 trillion
Central Research Question: What explained U.S.-based, private foundation leaders’ readiness to pursue fossil -fuel divestment by their institutions? Image source: standards.gov.nz
Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change Precontemplation Stages of Contemplation Readiness Preparation to Engage Action in New Maintenance Behavior TTM Processes Decisional of Balance Change Self- Efficacy Core constructs of the TTM.
Table 2.2 Comparison of TTM Processes of Change and Most Effective PEB Facilitative Interventions and Treatments TTM Processes of Change Ten Most Effective PEB Interventions and Treatments Consciousness raising : increasing Justifications/Instructions: reasons for awareness via information, education, and performing a specific behavior (also called personal feedback about a problem declarative information or why-to information) behavior and potential solution Dramatic relief : experiencing negative and positive emotions regarding the behavior/change Environmental Reevaluation : assessing Justifications: reasons for performing a specific impact on others of your behavior and behavior (also called declarative information or possible change why-to information) Self-Reevaluation : realizing that the Cognitive Dissonance: accessing preexisting behavioral change is important to personal beliefs or attitudes in attempt to make identity, happiness, success and/or values participants behave in ways that were consistent with those beliefs to reduce the dissonance Source: Abrash Walton, 2016, p. 78
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