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David Sherman was featured in a recent article of The Current: https://news.ucsb.edu/2024/021522/leveraging-social-psychology-overcome-barriers-climate-action

On June 5-6, 2024, David Sherman visited University of Amsterdam, where he gave a colloquium to the social psychology area and visited with the lab of Cameron Brick (UCSB Ph.D. 2015). 

The talk was on "Culture, Identity, and Support for Environmental Action.” 

For more information on Cameron’s research and lab, check out:

https://www.cameronbrick.com/

He is scheduled to visit UCSB on August 5, 2024 to give a colloquium (time and location TBA).

Congratulations to Suyi Leong, winner of the 2024 McClintock Award, which recognizes annually the social psychology graduate student who exemplifies the qualities cherished in Chuck McClintock, who was the first social psychologist on the UCSB faculty. Those qualities are:
   (1) scholarship -- excellent scholarship and a solid research record
   (2) education -- a commitment to education and contributing to the educational function of the program

Heejung Kim delivered a Keynote Address on "Environmental engagement in a diverse world: The relationship between environmental beliefs, social norms, and support for environmental action ” on 19 April 2024 at Humboldt University in Berlin. The talk was part of the two-day workshop, sponsored by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research. The conference was organized by Dr.

David Sherman presented a talk, “The Fierce Urgency of Now”: Intergroup Conflict and the Social Psychology  of Climate Change Policy” at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. David presented to an audience of students and professors at the Institute for Sustainability Psychology on 16 April 2024. The talk occurred in a remarkable lecture hall, The Central Building. The building is pictured below with David and Professor Timur Sevincer, who organized the colloquium.

Welcome Jungbin Lim & Devlin O’Keefe, new lab members beginning in Fall 2024! Both Jungbin and Devlin were named 2035 Fellows as part of the 2035 Initiative at UCSB.

David Sherman & Heejung Kim gave talks at FGV EAESP in São Paulo, Brazil on January 30th, 2024, at the Department of Marketing. Sherman’s talk was titled "Beliefs and Social Norms as Precursors of Environmental Support: The Influence of Collectivism and Socioeconomic Status” and Kim’s talk was titled “Environmental Motivation as Social Motivation: How Social Need Influence the Relationship Between Environmental Beliefs and Action.” Below is a photo of them with the talk attendees.

https://news.ucsb.edu/in-focus/russell-sage-foundation-taps-ucsb-social-scientists-fellowships

https://psych.ucsb.edu/news-events/news/2024/david-sherman-named-2024-2025-russell-sage-foundation-visiting-scholar

https://magazine.ucsb.edu/node/177

https://ids.wisc.edu/social-science-sustainability-solutions/