Environmental behavioral scientist studying decision-making and communication. Professor at UMass Amherst.
Joined May 2009
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Come join me at ASU! The IDEA (Intergenerational Decisions and Effective Action) Lab is recruiting a PhD student in Sustainability. In the IDEA lab we conduct research on the individual differences and social influences that drive sustainable behavior change. PM if interested!
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JD Vance: School shootings are just “a fact of life.”
Kids are being killed and he’s shrugging his shoulders.
Remember that in November.
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Conference registration is open until 9/19! Register at bit.ly/3Y1PIUy. $35 for students
and $95 for professionals.
The Financial Waiver Application is due by 9/18. The application can be found at bit.ly/45YchMb.
Open to anyone experiencing financial hardship.
Ezra Markowitz retweeted
📢 Call for Abstracts! Division 34's 3rd Virtual Conference on Sept 26-27, 2024
Submit by May 31, 11:59pm (last global timezone): sites.google.com/sepcp.org/v…
#EnvironmentalPsychology #Activism #BehaviorChange #Resilience #Health #Technology #Design
ALT Alarm Clock Lying on Multicolored Surface
Ezra Markowitz retweeted
🚨 The @ClimateCorpsUS website is LIVE! 🚨
Go to climatecorps.gov to find nearly 2K positions in conservation, clean energy and climate resilience. Ready to get to work fighting climate change? Apply today at climatecorps.gov!
Ezra Markowitz retweeted
We tested 10 behavioral interventions to mitigate #climatechange in 63 countries (N = 59,440)
The interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes:
-Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%)
-Policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%)
-Information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%)
-No intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even backfired by reducing tree planting!
Our paper is in @ScienceAdvances : science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
It was led by @vlasceanu_mada and @kim_doell and included a massive team of over 250 collaborators from around the world!
Ezra Markowitz retweeted
Glad to be a part of this interdisciplinary team exploring ways to improve climate change mitigation. – at Nashville, TN
The paper has many great coauthors: Leaf Van Boven, @GernotWagner, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, @kyrib, @maxboykoff, Benjamin Converse, @LisaD144, @jg_environ, @yorl, @ezramarkowitz, @moyerjonathan, Pete Newton, @KaitlinRaimi, @TrishaShrum, & @michaelvandenb6 9/
Ezra Markowitz retweeted
The IRA has the potential to significantly reduce US emissions, as @JesseJenkins, @JEBistline and others have shown. In a new @NatureClimate paper, we discuss the supply, demand, and polarization challenges that could get in the way. 1/
nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
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Thank you for the awesome work, friends. The Inaugural Social Systems and Justice Chapter 20; Fifth National Climate Assessment-in the books. @candiscallison @ezramarkowitz @FayolaJ_ @mdhDuBois @kylepowyswhyte @EnvironMel @ajerolleman @rlshwom @KeelyMax
nca2023.globalchange.gov/cha…
Ezra Markowitz retweeted
I am still reading #NCA5 carefully and will be writing about my thoughts, including the decision to lead the report with "billion dollar" disaster political messaging — but I just wanted to give a strong thanks to @ezramarkowitz @candiscallison @rlshwom + collaborators for their great work on the public communication, engagement, social systems, and justice sections of the report nca2023.globalchange.gov/cha…— including maybe the best graphic in the report [or at least for me to use in teaching ;-)]
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Big News: The Biden-Harris Administration is launching the American Climate Corps – mobilizing more than 20,000 young Americans to work on the frontlines of conservation, clean energy and climate resilience.
Learn more at whitehouse.gov/ClimateCorps.
ALT Biden-Harris Administration Launches American Climate Corps A workforce initiative that will train young people for careers in the growing fields of clean energy and climate resilience whitehouse.gov/ClimateCorps
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@ezramarkowitz our new income-based emissions study is now published on PLOS Climate. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm…
Ezra Markowitz retweeted
"A letter to future generations: Examining the effectiveness of an intergenerational framing intervention"
Stylianos Syropoulos, Ezra M. Markowitz, Bradford Demarest, @TrishaShrum
New publication in the Journal of Environmental Psychology
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ALT In comparing climate letters to legacy letters, many terms that differ most between the two sets of letters are topical (“climate” and “change” being most prominent of these as more common in climate letters, but also “country”, “society”, “hate”, “technology”, “racism”, “war”, “women”, “America”, and “healthcare” on the non-climate legacy side).
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The @TownOfAmherst, @NorthamptonMA & Pelham announce the Valley Green Energy electricity program - that will bring cleaner electricity, stable prices, & new electricity choices to our area. See full details & join a public info session on 6/6 at 6:30 PM at amherstma.gov/CivicAlerts.as…
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