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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🌍 Happy International #MotherEarthDay! In line with this year’s theme “Our Power, Our Planet!”, we decided to design a collaborative planter for our office space—a little daily reminder of why we do our jobs: research and work together to facilitate a more sustainable relationship with nature! 🌱

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Last week Jolanda Lindenbauer joined the #Klimatag2026 in Vienna, presenting a poster on her current research using a large dataset from the Environment Agency of Austria. Take away: conflicting results suggest that not all #pro-environmental behaviours have the same relationship with #eco-anxiety.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

What happens when products are labelled as containing chemicals that are #persistent, #mobile, or #toxic? In our new #ZeroPM project paper we show that PMT labels increase public concern and support for regulation. 🔬 Read here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

📸 Photobooth at the @univie.ac.at Psychology Department's #Carnival Party. Happy belated festivities, or as you say in Austria “Lei Lei!” 🎉

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

At ANSES in Paris, Ellise Suffill presented her #ZeroPM work on integrating social data into the Essential Use Concept, followed by a roundtable on whether the consumer is always right and how to enable sustainable design. ♻️ #Chemicals #Pollution #Sustainability

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Jolanda Lindenbauer joined the group last year as a research assistant, where she supports a project on the risk perception of #microplastics. She is also writing her master’s thesis with the group, looking at how #eco-anxiety and different #pro-environmental behaviours are related to each other. 🏡

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Tatiana Shevel recently joined the Environmental Psychology Group as a #PhD student. In her research, she aims to bridge #sustainability science and #environmentalpsychology through the #inner_transformation approach. 🌱

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

New year, new recap! 🗓️ 2025 was a pretty busy year for us and our EnvPsy Group at @univie.ac.at has grown quite significantly. We hope to keep this momentum going in 2026 and are already excited to share all the new projects & papers we have been working on!

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🎵 Music can bring us together and motivate us to make a change. That’s why you should check out our Environmental Tunes 2025 Playlist for a collection of songs about the environment and/or protecting it! 🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/3sM...

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Kuni Saffana recently joined the team as a PhD student, having received funding by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency (LPDP) Scholarship. Her research will aim to advance the use of #psychometrics in #environmentalpsychology in order to promote conscious and responsible consumption

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Happy Holidays from the Environmental Psychology Vienna Lab! See you again in the new year. 🎄🎆

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Addi Wala works both in #urban #research and in applied participatory #urbandevelopment here in Vienna. He is our organisational assistant for the RESONATE project, as well as our communications and social media manager (meaning he had to write this in third person about himself 🤓).

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

⛰️ Happy International Mountain Day (11th December)! #MountainsMatter 🌁 Earlier this month @Christina Barz took part in a panel discussion after the new #documentary by Harry Putz about melting #glaciers (“Requiem in Weiß”) was shown at Sargfabrik.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

⛰️ Happy International Mountain Day (11 December)! #MountainsMatter – they are the world’s water towers and global action is needed to preserve #glaciers and #mountains for future generations.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

@helenezillig.bsky.social visited the European School in Munich last month to answer questions and help students discover whether psychology is something they’re interested in—be it for their education, profession, or general future. 🎓

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

@helenezillig.bsky.social presents her research at the #ENLIGHTConference2025! She merged over 1,400 nighttime visits to #BlueSpaces with satellite data measuring Artificial Light at Night ( #ALAN) to explore how the brightness of a location relates to perceived #safety and #wellbeing. 🌃

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Meet our young #ant colony! 🐜 Named after the 10 other Work Packages (WPs) in the #RESONATE Project, WP11 does not provide us with data on nature-based therapies but can nonetheless teach us what is means to work together and care for our surrounding #environment. 💚

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Ester Hernández is a researcher at IICG-URJC in Spain. With a background in #Biology and #Conservation Ecology, her doctoral work explores the social perception of arid ecosystems. 🌵 We are happy to have Ester visit our lab and help her strengthen the bridge between #Ecology and #Psychology! 🌉

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Bio-psycho-social #Resilience: Can #Nature Strengthen Us? The short answer: Yes! ✅ The long answer? That’s where research comes in – as Valentina Hampejs explained in her recent talk at the Planetarium in Vienna as part of the VHS-Science Program. 🧪

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Anja Heske re-joined the team in March as a #PhD student. In her dissertation, she will explore how nature might benefit close personal relationships, working closely with the RESONATE project to investigate how natural environments might not only build individual, but also relational #resilience. 🌱

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Symposium on Nature-based Therapy in the DACH region. More information and Sign-up: www.eventbrite.es/e/nature-bas...

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

@helenezillig.bsky.social is a student assistant, supporting the #ZeroPM project and helping classes on #EnvironmentalPsychology run smoothly for both students and lecturers. In her Master’s Thesis, she investigates how people’s #nighttime experience of #BlueSpaces is impacted by artificial light. 💡

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

♻️ Project Spotlight: ZeroPM 🏛️ Uni Vienna Team: Sabine Pahl, Mathew White & Ellise Suffill, with support from Louisa Richter and Hélène Zillig. ⌛ Duration: 2021–2026 🌐 For more information visit: zeropm.eu

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Ellise joined the Vienna EnvPsy Team in November 2021 as a post-doc and part of the #ZeroPM project. ♻️ Since then, she has been involved at the intersection between academia and policymaking and working towards reducing the consumption and pollution of persistent and mobile chemicals across the EU.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Cornelia Ehmayer’s university course on #urbanpsychology started into the next semester! 🏙️ Her company #STADTpsychologie conducts #participatory #urbandevelopment in Vienna and her integration of practical application, science, and teaching won her the University of Vienna’s Teaching Award 2024. 🎓

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hi, I'm Neline, and over the past few months I've had the opportunity to complete an internship with the EnvPsy group at the University of Vienna. 💼 My main takeaway: Research does not have to be abstract. It can have real impact when it comes to understanding nature as a resource for health. 🧠 🌱

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Our poster from the @univienna #WelcomeWeeks orientation event for new students interested in learning about the different teams and labs at the Faculty of #Psychology. 🎓 Thank you @helenezillig.bsky.social for putting this together! Sapere aude – Dare to know!

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This year’s Horizon Europe #RESONATE Annual Meeting took place in Padua 🇮🇹 and brought together leading experts in the field of Nature-based Therapy ( #NbT ) research from around the globe. 🌍 🌐 You can learn more about the #RESONATE project on our website: resonate-horizon.eu

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Isolde Gottwald has been awarded the DOC Fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences to pursue her doctoral project focusing on strategies for climate- & environmental communication in entertainment media. 📺 Welcome to the team! 🙌

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

#TogetherForTheSDGs Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals! Together with the UN Global Compact Network Austria we are raising the SDG Flag to show our sustained commitment to climate action, gender equality, biodiversity, and decent work! 🌍

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🌱Project Spotlight: RESONATE “Building individual and community RESilience thrOugh NATurE-based therapies” is a Horizon Europe project that brings together a consortium of world leaders in #nature_based_therapy (NbT) research, practice, policy, and innovation. 🌿

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Maja Grünzner is a psychologist, systemic & family therapist (in training) and has been a member of the #EnvironmentalPsychology Lab for many years. She has recently completed her PhD: ♻️ Small Choices, Big Impact: Tackling Microplastics through Behavioural Science

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Maja Grünzner on successfully completing her #PhD defence! 🥳✨

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Valeria Vitale re-joined the team in January as a post-doc researcher, contributing to two Horizon Europe projects that examine public perceptions of environmental risks. #GOLIAT #SOS-ZEROPOL2030 Welcome back, Valeria!

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

📸Valeria Vitale shared her research at the International Conference on #EnvironmentalPsychology (ICEP 2025) in Vilnius, Lithuania. 📊She introduced “nature selection” as a new #emotionregulation strategy and validated a scale through studies conducted both in English and Italian.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

“Feelings for the future: #Emotions as a driving force for #Climateprotection” Christina Barz will hold a talk at the Vienna Climate Talk as part of the Vienna Sustainability Festival 2025. 🕔 28.08.2025, 17:00–19:30 📍 @wienerhilfswerk, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

💡 Katharina Koller was accepted into the FFG Women Innovator Program. Over the coming year she will receive expert mentoring and will work on how her current research on the social dimension of #climatechange and game-based approaches can be turned into products and services with societal impact.🌍

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Besides handling the EnvPsy Lab’s administrative matters, Rebecca Gil Segovia recently took on the role of third-party project administrator for the entire Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology at the University of Vienna. 🙌

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

📸 Valentina Hampejs presented her latest research at the International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP) in Vilnius, Lithuania. 📊 Using insights from 18,000 nature visits, she explored how connecting with nature can boost your physical, mental and social #wellbeing.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We recently had a high school student visit us at the lab. She is considering studying psychology but wanted to know what that even looks like if you aren’t a therapist. @ Jana Zeilinger thanks for stopping by, it was a pleasure to meet you! #environmentalpsychology #earlycareerreseachers

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📻️ EnvPsy on air! Valentina Hampejs provides listeners with a scientific perspective on Austria’s cherished relationship with the sea – a complicated and seemingly insatiable longing, given that Austria is landlocked. Ö1 Moment: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📸 Nina Vaupotič presenting her new findings at the International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP 2025). 📊 A new analysis in relation to #ProjectGOLIAT shows who believes in the health effects of #5G technologies across 11 countries. #science #environmentalpsychology #univienna

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

New paper by @ninavaupotic.bsky.social on the perception of #5G technology and its perceived effects on human health and society between experts, non-experts, and self-identified electrosensitive individuals. Open-access paper: www-tandfonline-com.uaccess.univie.ac.at/doi/full/10....

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

>Hello World! After a brief hiatus, the EnvPsy Vienna social media accounts are back in action! We are also happy to announce that we have expanded, and you can now visit us on LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Instagram. Leave us a follow and stay up to date with our lab’s research! See you around!👋

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Research foci were presented, future avenues discussed and the freedom of science was protested for at #MarchforScience #StandUpForScience @s4fat.bsky.social. 📢

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Inspiring & fun 2 days lie behind us. 🧠🌱💡 We had a joint #EnvironmentalPsychology meeting with the @scanunit.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at & the Consumer Decision and Sustainable Behavior Lab coming all the way from Geneva. 🚆

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This year's interdisciplinary @vdscobene.bsky.social PhD Academy at @univie.ac.at featured insightful talks & engaging poster presentations. Our newest PhD student Valentina Hampejs gave her 1st conference presentation on #nature contact & biopsychosocial #resilience. 🌱🌳@resonatenbt.bsky.social

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Ever wondered why #swimming in #openwaters makes you feel so good? 🌊🏊‍♂️ New research from the #BlueHealth project, using data from 1,200 swimmers across 19 countries, found that swimming in natural waters is linked to significantly higher levels of #wellbeing compared to swimming in open-air pools.

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Bonus Material: A fun clip of our Christmas party at one of the Viennese "Christkindl" Markets. And adding one additional (non-international) train ride to the list. 🚂

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Proudly presenting the "EnvPsy Vienna 2024 Wrap-Up" 🎀 We are really excited to show you our year in numbers. Thanks for following along and all the best for 2025!

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