In this Climate Chat episode, we interview University of Michigan Professor Kaitlin Raimi about her research on public perception of climate change and climate solutions such as carbon capture and sunlight reflection methods (SRM).
Kaitlin Raimi is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan Ford School. As a social/environmental psychologist, her interests center on how individuals can promote or prevent sustainable behaviors and policies. She has three broad areas of research: (1) how people compare their own beliefs and behaviors to others, (2) how adopting one pro-environmental behavior affects later action, and (3) how climate change communication affects people’s understanding, behaviors, and support for climate policies and technologies.
Professor Raimi's web page: https://public.websites.umich.edu/~kraimi/
Selected research from Professor Raimi:
Public perceptions of geoengineering
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X21000385
How to encourage pro-environmental behaviors without crowding out public support for climate policies
https://behavioralpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/BSP_Vol7Issue2_Raimi.pdf
Meta-analysis of pro-environmental behaviour spillover
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0263-9
The Aversion to Tampering with Nature (ATN) Scale: Individual Differences in (Dis)comfort with Altering the Natural World
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31613025/
Belief superiority in the environmental domain: Attitude extremity and reactions to fracking
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494414000474
Effects of communicating the rise of climate migration on public perceptions of climate change and migration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027249442300258X
Models and scenarios for solar radiation modification need to include human perceptions of risk
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5295/addd42/meta
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