🥳Great news! I’m excited that our Manylabs Climate Project is named one of the top ten projects in the Social Sciences & Humanities category of the #FallingWalls #GlobalCall24, competing for the #ScienceBreakthrough of the Year title. #ScienceSummit24

BIG thanks to all our coauthors! @boryana_td, David Steyrl, Matthew Hornsey, @CameronBrick, Florian Lange, @jayvanbavel , & Madalina Vlasceanu

We hope this work helps refine climate models and guide global interventions by: 🔹 Prioritizing modifiable psychological research targets 🔹 Accounting for national context 🔹 Emphasizing outcome specificity

One of the most striking findings: Political orientation strongly predicts beliefs and policy support, but not actual behavior—and even predicts less info sharing. Is polarization more psychological than behavioral?

Explained variance ranged widely: 🔹 Belief: 57% 🥳 🔹 Policy support: 46%🍾 🔹 Info sharing: 74% accuracy🎉 🔹 Actual behavior: just 10%🫣 Private, effortful actions are harder to predict—likely influenced by unmeasured situational factors.

People in lower-HDI countries showed stronger climate beliefs and behaviors—supporting the precarity hypothesis that less affluent nations, with fewer resources to buffer climate impacts, are more attuned to the need for action.

Top 4 predictors consistent across all outcomes: ✅ Environmentalist identity ✅ Trust in climate science ✅ Internal environmental motivation ✅ HDI Most other predictors had inconsistent or even opposing effects (positive relationship with one outcome, neg with another).

We ranked 19 predictors across 4 climate outcomes: 1️⃣ Belief in climate change 2️⃣ Policy support 3️⃣ Willingness to share info 4️⃣ Actual consequential effortful behavior (not self-report!)

Most research on climate beliefs/behaviors is from Global North countries. We use data from the International Climate Psychology Collaboration ( https://t.co/I5pYkoLknA) to analyze diverse predictors across 55 countries, offering a very global perspective🌍

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 We used interpretable machine learning on data from 55 countries (N = 4,635) to identify the most important individual- and nation-level factors predicting climate beliefs, policy support, and behaviors. 📄 https://t.co/Rna58WGXnm Led by @boryana_td

Coauthored by the brilliant @boryana_td @_maxsteininger and @ClausLamm 🫶

In short: ✅Climate change affects your brain ✅Your brain drives climate action ✅Neuroscience, in collaboration with manyyyyy other disciplines, can help us design better, smarter, more impactful solutions

We outline a roadmap for using neuroscience to predict, test, and scale interventions — from neuroforecasting campaign responses to using brain stimulation 🧠⚡ to understand sustainable decision-making.

And it's not just about individuals. Collective action — from community projects to global movements — can (likely) build social connection, reduce eco-anxiety, and activate the brain’s feel-good pathways.

We also discuss how the brain’s decision-making and emotional systems are key to understanding why people act — or don’t — on climate. From fear to hope, reward to control: neuroscience reveals the hidden forces behind climate action.

Taking climate action can actually boost brain health. Walk or bike more? Great for the planet and your prefrontal cortex. 🚴‍♀️ Eat less red meat? Better for your carbon footprint and your cognition. 🥗 Nature-based solutions? Good vibes AND neural resilience.🌱

Most people might not realize this, but climate change isn’t just bad for the planet — it’s bad for your brain. • Worse mental health • Increased chance of cognitive decline • Higher risk of neurological disorders But here's the twist...

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Climate action helps mitigate climate change ♻️ Climate change harms the brain 🔥🌎🧠 Can climate action promote brain health? 🤔 We review, Neuroscience and climate action: intersecting pathways for brain and planetary health OA: https://t.co/50PcAYKqYb...👇

🚨We are launching the new Heat and Cognition #manylabs project! We will test how extreme heat impacts the human mind across the globe 🌎🌍🌏 More info:  https://t.co/vE00Z7bdK7📋 Sign up to collab:  https://t.co/3SceMHn6rl... #EnvironmentalPsychology #ClimateChange

🚨There is now a validated scale for measuring climate change policy support! 🤓Led by @SamanthaStanley using the results from our Manylabs Climate project 🥳Check out the thread below 🧵👇

The strengthening democracy project has finally been published in @ScienceMagazine 🥳 A huge congrats to @jgvoelkel for leading this awesome project! See his thread 👇for an excellent breakdown