Advancing the health of the planet and its inhabitants
with psychological insights
I strive to advance the health of the planet and its inhabitants through my psychological expertise. I regularly publish research on various environmental topics, teach environmental psychology at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and collaborate with and offer consulting services to local and international environmental organizations.
Research Programs
I study how humans behave in relation to the environment. My primary research focuses include: (i) to understand how people perceive their relationship with nature and the emotional and behavioral implications of such perceptions; (ii) to explore the cross-national variability of phenomena related to environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior; (iii) to examine human responses to the problem of climate change, such as climate change anxiety, support for climate policies, and conspiracy theories.
News
October 2024: Presented a talk titled “Truly Recognizing Climate Change as a Global Problem: What it Means for Psychological Research” as a feature speaker in the Closing Plenary Session: Future of Global Psychological Science at the APS Global Psychological Science Summit. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/global-summit/featured-speakers
August 2024: Delivered a keynote speech titled “Cross-cultural perspectives on environmental psychology” at the National Scientific Meeting of the Indonesian Association of Social Psychology (Temu Ilmiah Nasional Ikatan Psikologi Sosial XIII 2024) at Bandung, Indonesia.
August 2024: Published a paper regarding the development of climate change anxiety in Journal of Anxiety Disorder. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2024.102917
August 2024: Published a paper regarding the longitudinal relationship between experience of temperature anomalies and belief in climate change conspiracy theories in Journal of Environmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102409
July 2024: Published a review paper on the relationship betewen nature connectedness and wellbeing among children and adolescents in Global Environmental Change. https://gep.psychopen.eu/index.php/gep/aam
June 2024: Published a paper proposing and testing an integrated model of climate change anxiety in Journal of Environmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102368