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The field of climate crisis psychology focuses on the relationship between the human psyche and the climate
crisis. Although the climate crisis is often seen as an ecological problem, it can also be described in terms of human behavior and the human psyche. Human behavior is responsible for the climate crisis, it has an impact on the human psyche and a change in human behavior will be necessary to solve it. The role of psychology is to understand these issues, the relationship between the climate crisis and human thoughts, emotions and behavior, and to find ways out of the crisis from the position of psychology. Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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Aim of subject: The aim of the course is to introduce and discuss various aspects of the climate crisis from a psychological perspective so that students are encouraged to engage in its resolution. We will discuss the climate crisis from several perspectives: what our psychological characteristics contribute to it, how it affects our psyche, and how psychology can contribute to its mitigation.
Gained knowledge and skills: Students will gain insight into the climate crisis from the perspective of human behavior and psychology, and better understand the potential of psychology to address the climate crisis. They will gain inspiration and recommendations for concrete engagement from the position of a psychologist. Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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Requirements for assessment of study: active class participation of at least 70%, a short student presentation on the topic, alternatively a test on the course content. Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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Swim, et al., Psychology and global climate change: Addressing a multi-faceted phenomenon and set of challenges. American Psychological Association, Washington, 2009 Clayton, Manning, Psychology and Climate Change, Academic Press, 2018. Aron, The climate crisis. Cambridge University Press, 2022. CPA, Handbook of Climate Psychology, 2022 Hoffman, Jak kultura utváří diskusi o klimatické změně. Masarykova univerzita, 2017. Pecka, Továrna na lži: výroba klimatických dezinformací - kniha. Utopia Libri , Alarm, 2023.
Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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Syllabus: 1. Mechanisms of the climate crisis Principles, greenhouse effect, history of research, weather or climate, scientific consensus, large acceleration, planetary boundaries, predictions and expected impacts, solutions 2. Perceptions of the climate crisis History of climate crisis perception, risk perception, scary and unknown risks, structural and psychological barriers, types of skepticism, psychological distance, perception of time, attitudes and beliefs, perception gap, six Americas and five subcultures 3. Behaviors contributing to the climate crisis Consumer behavior and its predictors, cultural assumptions and practices, belief in progress, sense of privilege, environmental identity, behavior and its carbon footprint, brain reward system 4. The politics of the climate crisis The politicization of the climate crisis, political ambivalence, disinformation and misinformation, the denial machine, typologies of myths and inoculation against them, climate discourses, the role of the media 5-6. Motivated cognition and the climate crisis Bounded rationality, cognitive bias system, types of confirmation bias, psychological feedback, attitudes and their roots, social identity, psychological causes of bias, dragons of inaction 7. Consequences of the climate crisis on the psyche, climate grief, taxonomy of climate emotions, grief wheel, ecological guilt, direct and indirect effects on mental health, social psychological changes 8. Coping strategies for dealing with the climate crisis Self-efficacy, psychology of adaptation, radical hope, proactive and reactive responses, active citizenship, community resilience, collective action 9. Communicating the climate crisis The role of narrative and vision, framing, scientific and climate uncertainty, data versus experience, climate crisis as a public good, barriers to communication, metaphors, greenwashing 10. Philosophy of the climate crisis Doughnut economics, no-growth solutions, sustainability of civilization, capitalism, green growth, climate justice, systems approach Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
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