
Irina Feygina
Dr. Feygina has served as Director of Behavioral Science and Assessment at Climate Central, as a Fellow on the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, and as a AAAS Congressional Fellow with Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO). She completed her doctorate at New York University, her post-doctoral work at Rutgers University, has published in diverse theoretical and applied peer-reviewed social science journals, and has had her work featured in New York Magazine, Psychology Today, Scientific American, and others.
Sessions auxquelles Irina Feygina participe
Vendredi 28 Mai, 2021
Climate change skepticism and disengagement are rooted in deeply seated human motives to belong, to identify with and feel accepted by groups and communities, and to defend and uphold social and economic systems and ideologies. These tendencies come into conflict with acknowledging the reality of climate change, which is threatening to many aspects of established systems and the status quo. They give rise to motivated cognition processes that result in dismissing evidence for climate chang...