specialization|Environmental Psychology

Research themes

Students in the Environmental Psychology specialization will focus on understanding the relationship between humans and their environments, with a specific focus on pro-environmental behavior, acceptability of environmental policies, and climate change adaptation.

Research Group

The Environmental Psychology specialization is organized by the Environmental Psychology expertise group, that studies:

• individual, social, and contextual factors influencing environmental behaviour,
• factors influencing the effects and acceptability of policies and interventions to promote sustainable behaviour,
• effects of sustainable behaviour on well-being.

The group is involved in many interdisciplinary and international projects that study ways to combat climate change and its negative impacts.

Multidisciplinary programme

The Research Master with specialization Environmental Psychology is part of the theme Understanding Societal Change within a multidisciplinary programme.

Specializations in this theme:
Environmental Psychology | Organizational Psychology | Psychometrics and Statistics | Social psychology | Sociology

For questions about the UCS theme contact m.van.zomeren@rug.nl

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