Visited OSU's John Glenn College of Public Affairs to discuss new research on climate change communication. Here is a picture with Mike DeKay, professor of psychology, who was on my PhD committee. Got to see a piece of the moon up close :)
Tyler Marghetis presents our research at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)
Tyler Marghetis presents our work on "Estimating and correcting misperceptions of energy use" at the annual Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. This work is funded by the National Science Foundation, Decision, Risk and Management Science program.
Talk for CASBS Board of Directors
(Photo courtsey of CASBS communications director - Mike Gaetani)
Shahzeen presents her research to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) Board of Directors. She discussed her work on perceptions and biases of energy and water use as well as new lines of research she is starting at CASBS.
Yosemite!
Breathtaking and rejuvinating.
Wonderful visit to UC Merced
Visited the Environmental Systems group to discuss our research on water use and water systems. Many thanks to my wonderful host Jessica Blois. Fantastic discussions with students and water leaders in California.
New paper: Maize seed choice and perceptions of climate variability among smallholder farmers
Kurt Waldman leads on a new paper published in Global Environmental Change. Results highlight smallholder farmer seed and climate perceptions in Southern Zambia. Congrats Kurt, Jordan, and Tom!
Colorado Climate Retreat
Ken Savitsky (Williams College), Adam Pearson (Pomona College), Kimin Eom (UC Santa Barbara), Amanda Carrico (CU Boulder), David Sherman (UC Santa Barbara), Lisa Dilling (CU Boulder) Sarah Anderson (UC Santa Barbara), Leaf Van Boven (CU Boulder), Phillip Ehret (UC Santa Barbara), Shahzeen Attari (Indiana University), Jenny Cole (CU Boulder). Missing due to blisters: Jon Shuldt (Cornell University), Geoff Cohen (Stanford University).
The purpose of the Colorado Climate Retreat was to examine recent and emerging research on the interface of climate change and social psychology, broadly construed. The meeting disseminated findings to students, researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public. Presenters included faculty and graduate students from psychology, political science, environmental studies, and theater and dance. Following public presentations on Friday, the presenters spent much of Saturday discussing future directions for collaborative, programmatic research.
Perceptions of water systems
New paper Perceptions of water systems out in Judgment and Decision Making.
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Above is an expert diagram and below is a student diagram
Another new labber: Warm welcome to Shahera Omar
Shahera Omar is a Fulbright Scholar and a Master of Public Affairs student in SPEA. She is interested in psychology and development, and she is from the beautiful country of Sri Lanka. She is a foodie and loves to squash cute things, especially her cats, Molan and Pakeer, which translate to "Idiot" and "Fool." Broadly, she will be working with Kurt Waldman et al. on understanding which decision science theories can be used to study smallholder farmer decision making in Africa.
Warm welcome to Tyler Marghetis!
Tyler Marghetis joins our Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in SPEA and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. He studies the limits of human imagination — how we [fail to] understand concepts that lie beyond the reach of perception and action — and implications for mitigating climate change, educating STEM experts, and creating a more just society. Before becoming a card-carrying Scientist, he was a child detective, then a professional magician, and finally a national team wrestler. Today, he likes bikes, books, and bourbon.
Party in the woods - celebrating the end of semester
Human Behavior & Energy Consumption (HBEC) course with our fantastic TA - Keane Gleeson
As the partying continues, a more blurry picture of our lab :) - What a fantastic group of researchers, colleagues, adventurers, and friends!
Leader for the greater good!
Just received this award from SPEA undergraduate students - 2016-2017 Leader for the greater good! Love our students (and love that they trust me with a solid glass ball!!). Thank you.
Shahzeen receives Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Shaz receives the award from Eliza Pavalko, IU's Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs
"The Outstanding Junior Faculty Award is designed to identify our most promising untenured tenure-track faculty from throughout the campus. It provides resources to enable these faculty members to further develop their scientific, scholar or artistic activities. Those selected to win this prestigious honor have begun to develop nationally recognized research programs, and devoted productive time to the teaching and service missions of the university."
Congrats to Janine, Adam, and Daniel!!
Janine, Adam, and Daniel receive a Sustainability Research Grant from IU's Office of Sustainability to investigate why people think of ineffective actions to decrease resource use. Congrats!!! Go Labbers!!!
Shahzeen gives keynote at undergraduate cognitive science conference
Looking forward to hearing and meeting these stellar midwestern undergrads! See you Saturday.
Shahzeen gives plenary talk on water use at Michigan State University
Claire presents her research at IU's Sustainability Symposium
Kudos to Claire Dorner, presenting her research as a Freshman and 2020 Sustainability Student!
Shahzeen heads to her alma mater - UIUC
Shahzeen will be presenting her water research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), her alma mater where she earned her BS in Engineering Physics. See you there!
Shaz receives SPEA Student Choice Award
Professors Shahzeen Attari and Beth Cate have been selected by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs’ undergraduate student community to receive the Leader for the Greater Good Award - Undergraduate for 2017 SPEA Student Choice Awards. This award was created to recognize the professor who best embodies SPEA’s spirit by giving back, spending time outside of class supporting students and student organizations, volunteering to help out at student events and supporting the school monetarily.
Colloquium at CU Boulder
Shahzeen will be giving the Environmental Studies Colloquium on Friday March 24 at University of Colorado Boulder. She will be discussing her new work with Dave Krantz and Elke Weber on ad hominem attacks on climate researchers. See you there.
