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  • Energy security is an important policy objective across Europe. Public concern about energy security varies across countries due to differences in national energy context and more general national indicators of economic and human well-being, over-and-above individual population characteristics.

    • Christina Demski
    • Wouter Poortinga
    • Pasi Pohjolainen
    Research
    Nature Energy
    Volume: 3, P: 882-888

  • Household energy conservation can help to significantly lower energy consumption. Visual cues provided by thermal imaging of heat loss in buildings are now shown to increase energy conserving behaviours and implementations among homeowners more effectively than just performing carbon footprint audits.

    • Linda Steg
    News & Views
    Nature Energy
    Volume: 1, P: 1-2

  • It is commonly assumed that pro-environmental behaviour can be triggered by offering an extrinsic reward. Now research shows that acting pro-environmentally elicits positive feelings and leads people to feel warmer. In experiments, people who learn they act in an environmentally friendly way feel good about themselves and perceive a higher room temperature than people who learn their behaviour is environmentally unfriendly.

    • Danny Taufik
    • Jan Willem Bolderdijk
    • Linda Steg
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 5, P: 37-40

  • Meta-analyses with data from 106 studies show that descriptive norms, negative affect, perceived self-efficacy and outcome efficacy are most strongly associated with climate change adaptation, whereas knowledge and experience are only weakly associated with adaptive behaviour.

    • Anne M. van Valkengoed
    • Linda Steg
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 9, P: 158-163

  • To realize ambitious climate targets, research should focus more on effective ways to encourage rapid and wide-scale changes in climate mitigation actions, and less on understanding climate change beliefs.

    • Linda Steg
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 8, P: 759-761

  • Consumer adoption of clean technologies is needed to reduce emissions and meet climate targets, but psychological and contextual barriers slow and even prevent uptake. This Review examines these barriers and discusses the effectiveness of interventions in overcoming them.

    • Anne Günther
    • Lukas Engel
    • Ulf J. J. Hahnel
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Clean Technology
    Volume: 1, P: 547-565

  • When and why are interventions to encourage pro-environmental behaviour effective? van Valkengoed and colleagues introduce a classification system that links different interventions to the determinants of environmental behaviour. On the basis of this classification system, they provide guidelines for practitioners on how to select interventions that are most likely to change the key determinants of a specific target behaviour.

    • Anne M. van Valkengoed
    • Wokje Abrahamse
    • Linda Steg
    Reviews
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 6, P: 1482-1492

  • Emphasizing the co-benefits of climate policy can motivate action across ideological, age and gender divides regardless of existing levels of concern about climate change, as global survey data shows.

    • Paul G. Bain
    • Taciano L. Milfont
    • Nina M. Saviolidis
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 6, P: 154-157

  • Aligned action to address the COVID-19 crisis contrasts with the heterogeneous response to tackle climate and sustainability challenges. The authors discuss the importance of strong personal norms and lessons for sustainability.

    • Thijs Bouman
    • Linda Steg
    • Thomas Dietz
    Reviews
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 4, P: 194-200

  • Meeting carbon emissions commitments while providing necessary energy services means reducing fossil fuel consumption. This Review presents social science insights for increasing adoption of low-carbon and low-consumption technologies and engendering practice changes among households and organizations.

    • Paul C. Stern
    • Kathryn B. Janda
    • Loren Lutzenhiser
    Reviews
    Nature Energy
    Volume: 1, P: 1-6

  • Policies aimed at mitigating climate change, adapting to it and minimizing its impacts must take into account human behaviours and motivations. Psychology can therefore inform efforts to address climate change, but further research is required.

    • Susan Clayton
    • Patrick Devine-Wright
    • Mirilia Bonnes
    Reviews
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 5, P: 640-646