In her public lecture, “Our Energy Efficiency Paradox: Psychological Barriers to ‘No-Brainer’ Solutions,” Weber, the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School and a professor of psychology at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, will place the psychological dimension of climate change within the broader context of human dimensions of climate change.

NYU’s Educating for Sustainability Lecture: Elke U. Weber, Oct. 23
Elke U. Weber, psychology professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Center for Research on Environmental Decisions

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WHO:   Elke U. Weber, psychology professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Center for Research on Environmental Decisions

WHAT:  Public lecture: “Our Energy Efficiency Paradox: Psychological Barriers to ‘No-Brainer’ Solutions”

WHEN:  Tuesday, October 23, 2012 from 6-7:30 PM

WHERE:  NYU Kimmel Center for Student Life Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 802, NYC. Subways: N, R (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place); A,C,E,B,D,F,M (West 4th Street).

For more information about the Educating for Sustainability series, or other NYU Sustainability programming, please call 212.998.1073 or go to www.nyu.edu/sustainability/.

In her public lecture, “Our Energy Efficiency Paradox: Psychological Barriers to ‘No-Brainer’ Solutions,” Weber, the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School and a professor of psychology at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, will place the psychological dimension of climate change within the broader context of human dimensions of climate change. She will address (a) human causes of, consequences of, and responses (adaptation and mitigation) to climate change and (b) the links between these aspects of climate change and cognitive, affective, motivational, interpersonal, and organizational responses and processes.

Weber is an expert on behavioral models of decision-making under risk and uncertainty, investigating psychologically and neurally plausible ways to model individual differences in risk taking and discounting, specifically in risky financial situations and environmental decisions.

The Educating for Sustainability series, which brings environmental scholars and leaders to NYU for public lectures, is cosponsored by the Sustainability Task Force and the Environmental Studies program.

 

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