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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#0070C0;font-weight:normal">Join Us for the Second Seminar in the</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#0070C0"><br>
<strong><span style="font-weight:normal">Fall 2015 Baruch Climate Change Series</span></strong></span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#0070C0"><br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:4.0pt"><br>
</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#1F497D">The Goldilocks Principle of Support for Climate Change Action:</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#1F497D">Framing Climate Change at a Distance That’s Just Right</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:4.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:5.0pt"><br>
</span></b><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#0070C0;font-weight:normal">October 29, 2:30-3:45pm<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#0070C0;font-weight:normal">55 Lexington Ave., Room 14-285</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p><em><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">About the Program</span></u></b></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
Climate change may be perceived as temporally, socially, spatially and hypothetically distant from the self. Some research on personal experience of climate change-related events suggests that psychological proximity may increase support for climate action,
however existing research has not examined how perceptions that climate change is far away in space, time, certainty and social distance might interact with each other to influence environmental decisions. I will discuss research in which we have examined
the effects of manipulating the perceived psychological distance of climate change impacts in terms of their spatial, social, temporal and hypothetical distance on people’s willingness to engage in or support climate change action. Our findings suggest that
to encourage action on climate change, impacts should be framed at a distance that’s just right: psychologically near enough to be considered personally relevant, but no so near that they are seen as threatening or insurmountable, nor so far that they seem
irrelevant. I will also discuss other potential considerations for the efficacy of communication strategies that seek to manipulate the perceived psychological distance of climate change impacts.</span><em><b><u><span style="font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></em></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><em><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">About the Speaker</span></u></b></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<b>Rachel McDonald</b> is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kansas. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2013. Before joining KU she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Psychology
at the University of New South Wales, in collaboration with the Australian Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and the UNSW Centre for Excellence in Climate System Science.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Her research is broadly concerned with how social factors influence decisions with environmental consequences. She examines the factors that predict willingness
to engage in individual pro-environmental behaviors, pay for pro-environmental products, take political action in support of environmental issues, and support sustainable policies. Her research explores diverse topics such as social influence and the effects
of influence from multiple groups, moral-framing, ingroup responsibility for collective environmental dilemmas, and how to optimally frame the psychological distance of climate change to encourage concern and action. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><em><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Registration</span></u></b></em><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To register, please e-mail or call Matthew LePere:
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