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Anne van Valkengoed

@valkengoed.bsky.social
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Environmental psychologist studying adaptation, pro-environmental behaviour, and behaviour change. University of Groningen.

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Anne van Valkengoed @valkengoed.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Happy to be featured in this collection! Fantastic set of articles addressing key questions on climate change right now. Recommended reading!
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Anne van Valkengoed @valkengoed.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New publication alert! 🚨 In this article, we examine the role of environmental psychology in representing lifestyle changes in climate models. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Representing the drivers of lifestyle change in Integrated Assessment Models using theories from environmental psychology: introducing the Motivation, Agency, and Past Behaviour (MAP) framework - IOPscienceSearch
Representing the drivers of lifestyle change in Integrated Assessment Models using theories from environmental psychology: introducing the Motivation, Agency, and Past Behaviour (MAP) framework, van Valkengoed, Anne M, Perlaviciute, Goda, Steg, Linda
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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 13/01/2025
Important paper by Andrea Byfuglien, @valkengoed.bsky.social and Stefania Innocenti on the importance of not equating intention/willingness measures with actual behaviour in studies of farmers' adoption of sustainable practices. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Diagram showing the relationship between strength of self-reported intentions to apply and final application, demonstrating large disparity between the two.
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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A starter pack of academics, researchers, and organisations active in #EnvironmentalPsychology (the application of psychology to environmental issues, such as climate change, and human-environment interactions. Let me know if you'd like to be added to this list (reply or dm) go.bsky.app/2yJ9TJg
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Anne van Valkengoed @valkengoed.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Advice to cope with climate anxiety can range from meditation to recycling to protest to community building. In our new article, we set out to organise such coping strategies by introducing a new framework: the Climate Anxiety Compass 🧭 Open acces article below: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The climate anxiety compass: A framework to map the solution space for coping with climate anxiety - Anne M. van Valkengoed, Linda Steg, 2024
Witnessing the rapidly unfolding consequences of climate change, many people feel worried, stressed and anxious. While many suggestions on how to cope with clim...
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Anne van Valkengoed @valkengoed.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Climate anxiety represents a healthy response to climate change and should not be medicalized. But what does this imply for the people who suffer from climate anxiety and wish to reduce it? I explore this question in my new essay for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social
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Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one.
"Climate anxiety" refers to pervasive worry and apprehension about climate change—which is a normal and healthy response to climate change, and one that can motivate climate action. It should, there...
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Environmental Psychology Groningen @epgroningen.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
📗 Hot off the press: read our colleague Anne van Valkengoed's latest paper about why we should treat #climateanxiety as a mental health issue Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' special issue on #climatechange 📗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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