Sandra Geiger, a member of the EnvPsy team, was delighted to receive the Graduate Student Research Award from APA Division 34 - Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology.
The awarded-winning paper "What we think others think about climate change: Generalizability of pluralistic ignorance across 11 countries" tests whether systematic misperceptions of climate change beliefs (so-called pluralistic ignorance) generalize across 11 countries (N = 3,653), particularly those that are typically underrepresented in psychological research. It further investigates whether presenting country-specific public opinion data on climate change beliefs can promote factors related to climate action.
The examining committee explained the paper "rose to the top due to its high rigor" and was "quite impressed with the paper and the work" Sandra is doing here.
