Internship

Environmental cues and willingness to take action

Recent studies have demonstrated that seemingly irrelevant environmental cues can affect how people think about environmental degradation and climate change.

Description of the internship

For instance, Joireman, Barnes Truelove, and Duell (2010) found that students’ beliefs about global warming correlated positively with outdoor temperatures. Such beliefs may subsequently influence people’s willingness to act and as such may provide useful intervention techniques.

We are looking for an MSc student who will critically review this line of research and design a study that aims to replicate and extend previous findings. Special attention will be paid to possibilities to generalize findings to real world interventions. 

Start

A.s.a.p.

Remarks

Experience with and/or interest in quantitative data analysis (ANOVA, regression, et cetera) is required.