Resources
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Speakers
Gale M. Sinatra
Gale M. Sinatra, Ph.D., is the Stephen H. Crocker Chair and Professor of Psychology and Education and Associate Dean for Research at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, USA. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is past President of American Psychological Association (APA Division 15, Educational Psychology). She is a Fellow of both APA and a member of the National Academy of Education. She chaired the APA Climate Change Task Force (https://www.apa.org/science/about/publications/climate -crisis-action-plan.pdf) Sinatra heads the Motivated Change Research Lab (www.motivatedchangelab.com), the mission of which is understanding the cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes that lead to attitude change, conceptual change, and successful STEM learning. She is the co-author (with Dr. Barbara Hofer) of Science Denial: Why it Happens and What to Do About It (www.sciencedenialbook.com) published by Oxford University Press, 2021
Susan Clayton
Susan Clayton, Ph.D., is the Whitmore-Williams Professor and Chair of Psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Dr. Clayton’s research examines people’s relationship with the natural environment, how it is socially constructed, and how a healthy relationship with nature can be promoted. She has written about the effects of climate change on mental health and has developed a scale to assess climate anxiety. She is author or editor of six books, including Identity and the Natural Environment, Conservation Psychology, and Psychology and Climate Change, and is currently the editor of the Cambridge Elements series in Applied Social Psychology and on the editorial board for journals such as the Journal of Environmental Psychology and Sustainability. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology, she was a lead author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.