My lab group in social and environmental psychology studies how individuals react to collective problems such as climate change. Who is helping, in what ways, and under what conditions? At the consumer level, I study individual and household decisions from clothing purchasing to transportation. At the societal level, I study policy preferences, advocacy, and activism, and how the public reacts to these behaviors. I also maintain a strong basic science program. Crossing planetary boundaries is an emergency and we have limited time to make a transition towards clean energy and circular consumption. Please get involved.
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology with tenure, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Early Career Achievement, APA Div. 34 Environmental Psychology
2021 Rising Star, Association for Psychological Science
Large Grants
2024 — 25 EU Commission: EU harmonized consumer waste labels (€575.000)
2024 — 28 UvA Research Priority Area: BRIDGES Sustainability (€1.250.000)
2023 — 25 UvA Sustainable Prosperity: SISTEM-NL Microfibers from clothes washing (€400.000)
2023 — 27 OCW: Starter Grant: Climate activism behavior (€414.000)
2023 — 27 Horizon Europe: MOSAIC Motivations and land-use (€6.937.000)
2022 — 26 NWO-KIC Circularity: MIWATEX Poly-cotton clothing recycling (€1.294.000)
Teaching and Supervising
I teach in BSc Social Psychology, BSc Politics, Psychology, Law & Economics, MSc Social Influence, and the Research MSc in Psychology.
PhD students: Anna Bosshard, Anna Sach, Linli Zhou; and Anna Castiglione (U of Trento)
PhD graduates: Maria Zwicker
Postdocs: Alaa Aldoh
Consulting
I consult for companies, universities, and governments with clients such as the European Commission, United Nations, University of California, Defra, UK Cabinet Office, UK National Rail, Fairphone, Open Evidence, and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
See this report of media attention and societal impact. On the right, I spoke in Cambridge about communicating for influence (14 min).
Official PDFs are provided below. Many are legal because they are open access. For others, under the Taverne Amendment, it is legal for researchers at Dutch universities to post official publications “regardless of any 'restrictive publishers’ guidelines, provided that clear reference is made to the source of the first publication of the work.”
2024
1. Brick, C., Nielsen, K. S., Berger, S., Henn, L., Wolske, K. S., Lange, F., Hanss, D., Bauer, J. M., Aldoh, A., Sachisthal, M. S., Johnsen, S. Å., & Cologna, V. (2024). Current research practices on pro-environmental behavior: A survey of environmental psychologists. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 97, 102375. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102375. PDF
2. Bosshard, A., Berger, S., Lange, F., Sosa, A., Kankaanpää, E., Fellegi, E., Dydula, J., Pulicelli, M., Aliyeva, O., & Brick, C. (2024). Limited overlap between behavioral tasks, pro-environmental propensity, and carbon footprint. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 97, 102297. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102297. PDF
3. Nielsen, K. S., Cologna, V., Bauer, J. M., Berger, S., Brick, C., Dietz, T., Hahnel, U. J., Henn, L., Lange, F., Stern, P. C., & Wolske, K. S. (2024). Realizing the full potential of behavioral science for climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 14(4), 322-330. 10.1038/s41558-024-01951-1. PDF
4. Kenward, B., & Brick, C. (2024). Large-scale disruptive environmental activism strengthened environmental attitudes in the United Kingdom. Global Environmental Psychology, 2, e11079. 10.5964/gep.11079. PDF
5. Vlasceanu, M., Doell, K. C., Bak Coleman, J. B., Todorova, B., Berkebile-Weinberg, M. M., Grayson, S. J., Patel, Y., Goldwert, D., Pei, Y., Chakroff, A., Pronizius, E., van den Broek, K. L., Vlasceanu, D., Constantino, S., Morais, M. J., Schumann, P., Rathje, S., Fang, K., Aglioti, S. M., ... Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances, 10, eadj5778, 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778. PDF
6. Dablander, F., Sachisthal, M. S., Cologna, V., Strahm, N., Bosshard, A., Grüning, N., Green, A., Brick, C., Aron, A., & Haslbeck, J. M. (2024). Climate change engagement of scientists. Nature Climate Change, 14, 1033-1039. 10.1038/s41558-024-02091-2. PDF
7. Madsen, J. K., de-Wit, L., Dewies, M., Ayton, P., Brick, C., de-Moliere, L., & Groom, C. (2024). Behavioural science should assume people are reasonable. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(28), 583-585. 10.1016/j.tics.2024.04.010. PDF
8. Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., Aczel, B., Adelina, N., Agostini, V., Alarie, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Aldoh, A., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Azevedo, F., Baker, B. J., Barth, C. L., Beitner, J., Brick, C., & Brohmer, H. & … Zhang, Y. (). The Replication Database: Documenting the replicability of psychological science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12(8), 1–23. 10.5334/jopd.101. PDF
9. Doell, K., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M., Coleman, J., Pronizius, E., Schumann, P., Azevedo, F., Patel, Y., Berkebile-Weinberg, M., Brick, C., Lange, F., Grayson, S., Pei, Y., Chakroff, A., van den Broek, K., Lamm, C., Vlasceanu, D., Constantino, S., & Rathje, S., ... Van Bavel, J. (2024). The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Scientific Data, 11(1066). s41597-024-03865-1. PDF
10. Pauer, S., Rutjens, B., Brick, C., Lob, A., Buttlar, B., Noordewier, M., Schneider, I., & van Harreveld, F. (2024, in press). Is the effect of trust on risk perceptions a matter of knowledge, control, and time? An extension and direct replication attempt of Siegrist and Cvetkovich (2000). Social Psychological and Personality Science. 10.1177/19485506241263884. PDF
11. Cologna, V., Mede, N. G., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E. W., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Schäfer, M. S., van der Linden, S., Aziz, N. I., Abdulsalam, S., Shamsi, N. A., Aczel, B., Adinugroho, I., Alabrese, E., Aldoh, A., Alfano, M., ... Zwaan, R. A. (2024, in press). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. Accepted PDF
12. Ramli, K., Sisay, B. A., & Brick, C. (2024, in press). Optimal delivery of social norms based feedback for household water consumption. Global Environmental Psychology. 10.5964/gep.11705. Accepted PDF
13. Mede, N., Cologna, V., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Schäfer, M., van der Linden, S., Abdul Aziz, N. I., Abdulsalam, S., Abu Shamsi, N., Aczel, B., Adinugroho, I., Alabrese, E., Aldoh, A., Alfano, M., ... Ntui, N. N. (2024, in press). Perceptions of science, science communication, and 2 climate change attitudes in 67 countries – the TISP 3 dataset. Nature Scientific Data. Accepted PDF
14. Yang, X., Schulz, J., Schmidt, K., Kenny, A. R., Pfuhl, G., Gjoneska, B., Dalger, I., Exner, A., Lander, K., Becker, M., Du, H., Johri, A., Selcuk, E., Gallyamova, A., Calluso, C., Reggev, N., Vranka, M. A., Acar, O. A., Palma T. A., … Dunham, Y. (2024, Registered Report Stage 1). Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases. Nature Human Behaviour. Stage 1 PDF
15. Castiglione, A., Bizzego, A., Brick, C., & Esposito, G. (2024, Registered Report Stage 1). A climate action intervention to boost individual and collective climate mitigation behaviors in young adults. Peer Community in Registered Reports. Stage 1 PDF
2023
16. Brick, C., Nielsen, K. S., & Hofmann, W. (2023). Opportunities for emotion research on biodiversity. Emotion Review, 15(4), 263-266. 10.1177/17540739231193755. PDF
17. Zwicker, M., van Harreveld, F., Zickfeld, J. H., & Brick, C. (2023). Intentions to purchase a sustainable mobile phone by network analysis in four European countries. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 40, September 2023, 337-351. 10.1016/j.spc.2023.07.008. PDF
18. Zwicker, M., Brick, C., Gruter, G.-J. M., & van Harreveld, F. (2023). Positive consumer attitudes and willingness to pay for novel bio-based plastic bottles. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 35, 173-183. 10.1016/j.spc.2022.10.021. PDF
19. Bosshard, A., Chatrou, A., & Brick, C. (2023). Climate concern and engagement: Large face-to-face and online polls in the Netherlands. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 26, e6, 1-12. 10.1017/SJP.2023.3. PDF
20. Koller, K., Pankowska, P. K., & Brick, C. (2023). Identifying bias in self-reported pro-environmental behavior. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4, 100087. 10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100087. PDF
21. Geiger, N., & Brick, C. (2023). Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues. Social Psychological and Personality Compass, 17(3), e12732. 10.1111/spc3.12732. PDF
22. Meijers, M. H. C., Wonneberger, A., Azrout, R., Torfadóttir, R., & Brick, C. (2023). Introducing and testing the personal-collective-governmental efficacy typology: How personal, collective, and governmental efficacy subtypes are associated with differential environmental actions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 85, 101915. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101915. PDF
2022
23. Nielsen, K. S., Brick, C., Hofmann, W., Joanes, T., Lange, F., & Gwozdz, W. (2022). The motivation-impact gap in pro-environmental clothing consumption. Nature Sustainability, 5, 665–668. 10.1038/s41893-022-00888-7. PDF
24. Pröpper, H. Y., Blanken, T. F., Geiger, S., & Brick, C. (2022). Identity over truth? Cultural cognition weakly replicates across 23 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 83, 101865. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101865. PDF
25. Kácha, O., Vintr, J., & Brick, C. (2022). Four Europes: Climate change beliefs and attitudes predict behavior and policy preferences using a latent class analysis on 23 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 81, 101815. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101815. PDF
26. Sparks, A., Ehret, P. J., & Brick, C. (2022). Measuring environmental orientation: testing and building scales. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 81, 101780. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101780. PDF
27. Downey, H., Bretagnolle, V., Brick, C., Bulman, C. R., Cooke, S. J., Dean, M., Edmonds, B., Frick, W. F., Friedman, K., McNicol, C., Nichols, C., Herbert, S., O'Brien, D., Ockendon, N., Petrovan, S., Stroud, D., White, T. B., Worthington, T. A., & Sutherland, W. J. (2022). Principles for the production of evidence-based guidance for conservation actions. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(5). 10.1111/csp2.12663. PDF
28. Zwicker, M., Bosshard, A., & Brick, C. (2022). Organisations can make a real impact on sustainable development. One Earth, 5(7), 751-753. 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.06.007. PDF
29. Buchanan, E., Cuccolo, K. M., Coles, N., Heyman, T., Iyer, A., Lewis, N. Jr., Peters, K., van Berkel, N., van ‘t Veer, A., Taylor, J. E., Montefinese, M., Valentine, K. D., Maxwell, N. P., Türkan, B. N., Williams, G. P., Oliveros-Chacana, J. C., Röer, J. P., Fini, C., Acar, O. A., … Lewis, S. C. (2022, Stage 1 Registered Report). Semantic priming across many languages (SPAM-L). Nature Human Behaviour. Stage 1 PDF
30. Castiglione, A., Brick, C., Lindsay, D., Holden, S., & Aron, A. (2022). Discovering the psychological building blocks underlying climate action - a longitudinal study of real-world activism (Registered Report). Royal Society Open Science, 9, 210006. 10.1098/rsos.210006. PDF
2021
31. Brick, C., Hood, B., Ekroll, V., & de-Wit, L. (2021). Illusory essences: A bias holding back theorizing in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(2), 491-506. 10.1177/1745691621991838. PDF
32. Brick, C., & Freeman, A. L. (2021). Communicating evidence in icons and summary formats for policy makers: What works? Behavioural Public Policy, 8(3), 441-469. 10.1017/bpp.2020.54. PDF
33. Brick, C., Bosshard, A., & Whitmarsh, L. (2021). Motivation and climate change: A review. Current Opinion in Psychology, 42, 82-88. 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.04.001. PDF
34. Brick, C., Fillon, A. A., Yeung, S. K., Wang, M., Ho, J. Y., Wong, S. C., & Feldman, G. (2021). Self-interest is overestimated: Two successful pre-registered replications of Miller and Ratner (1998). Collabra: Psychology, 7(1), 23443. 10.1525/collabra.23443. PDF
35. Brick, C., & Sherman, D. K. (2021). When does being watched change pro-environmental behaviors in the laboratory? Sustainability, 13(5), 2766. 10.3390/su13052766. PDF
36. Geiger, S., Brick, C., Nalborczyk, L., Bosshard, A., & Jostmann, N. B. (2021). More green than gray? Toward a sustainable overview of environmental spillover effects: a Bayesian meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 78, 101694. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101694. PDF
37. Lange, F., & Brick, C. (2021). Changing pro-environmental behavior: Evidence from (un)successful intervention studies. Sustainability, 13(14), 7748. 10.3390/su13147748. PDF
38. Zwicker, M. V., Brick, C., Gruter, G. M., & van Harreveld, F. (2021). (Not) doing the right things for the wrong reasons: an investigation of consumer attitudes, perceptions, and willingness to pay for bio-based plastics. Sustainability, 13(12), 6819. 10.3390/su13126819. PDF
39. Cologna, V., Hoogendoorn, G., & Brick, C. (2021). To strike or not to strike? An investigation of profiles of participating and non-participating students at the Fridays for Future climate strikes. PLoS ONE, 16(10), e0257296. 10.1371/journal.pone.0257296. PDF
40. Brick, A., & Brick, C. (2021). Districting that minimises partisan bias. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, 138. 10.1057/s41599-021-00809-7. PDF
41. Nielsen, K. S., Cologna, V., Lange, F., Brick, C., & Stern, P. C. (2021). The case for impact-oriented environmental psychology. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 74, 101559. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101559. PDF
42. Lange, F., Nielsen, K. S., Cologna, V., Brick, C., & Stern, P. C. (2021). Making theory useful for understanding high-impact behavior: A response to van Valkengoed et al. (2021). Journal of Environmental Psychology, 75, 101611. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101611. PDF
43. Kenward, B., & Brick, C. (2021). Even UK Conservative voters prefer the environment to be at the heart of post-COVID-19 economic reconstruction. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 9(1), 321-333. 10.5964/jspp.6917. PDF
44. Sutherland, W. J., Taylor, N. G., Aldridge, D. C., Martin, P., Rhodes, C., Shackelford, G., Beard, S., Belfield, H., Bladon, A. J., Brick, C., Christie, A. P., Dobson, A. P., Downey, H., Hood, A. S. C., Hua, F., Hughes, A. C., Jarvis, R. M., MacFarlane, D., Morgan, W. H., … Petrovan, S. O. (2021). A solution scan of societal options to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission and spread. Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 3(2), 84-90. 10.1016/j.jobb.2021.08.003. PDF
45. Tierney, W., Hardy, J., III, Ebersole, C. R., Viganola, D., Clemente, E. G., Gordon, M., Hoogeveen, S., Haaf, J., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Pfeiffer, T., Huang, J. L., Vaughn, L. A., DeMarree, K., Igou, E. R., Chapman, H., Gantman, A., Vanaman, M., Wylie, J., … Uhlmann, E. L. (2021). A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, 104060. 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104060. PDF
2020
46. Brick, C., McDowell, M., & Freeman, A. L. (2020). Risk communication in tables vs. text: a Registered Report randomised trial on 'fact boxes'. Royal Society Open Science, 7(3), 190876. 10.1098/rsos.190876. PDF
47. Hodges, H., Kuehl, C., Anderson, S., Ehret, P., & Brick, C. (2020). How water districts can reduce household water use through communication: A field experiment. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 39(4), 1076-1099. 10.1002/pam.22246. PDF
48. Ehret, P., Hodges, H., Kuehl, C., Brick, C., Muller, S., & Anderson, S. (2020). Systematic review of household water conservation interventions using the information-motivation-behavioral skills model. Environment & Behavior, 53(5), 485-519. 10.1177/0013916519896868. PDF
49. Lange, F., Brick, C., & Dewitte, S. (2020). Green when seen? No support for an effect of observability on environmental conservation in the lab: a Registered Report. Royal Society Open Science, 7(4), 190189. 10.1098/rsos.190189. PDF
50. Vesely, S., Klöckner, C. A., & Brick, C. (2020). Are environmentalists more pro-social when solving social dilemmas? Expectations and behavior in the lab. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 67, 101362. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101362. PDF
2019
51. Ford, H., Brick, C. (co-first author), Blaufuss, K., Dekens, P., & Azmitia, M. (2019). Women from under-represented minorities are given too few talks at world’s largest earth science conference. Nature, 576, 32-35. 10.1038/d41586-019-03688-w. PDF
52. Brick, C. (2019). A modest proposal for restoration ecology. Restoration Ecology, 27(3), 485-487. 10.1111/rec.12943. PDF
53. Schüz, B., Brick, C., Wilding, S. E., & Conner, M. T. (2019). Socioeconomic status moderates the effects of health cognitions on health behaviors: Two multi-behavior studies. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 54(1), 36-48. 10.1093/abm/kaz023. PDF
2018
54. Brick, C., & Lai, C. K. (2018). Explicit (but not implicit) environmentalist identity predicts pro-environmental action. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 58, 8-17. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.07.003. PDF
55. Brick, C., Freeman, A. L., Wooding, S., Skylark, W. J., Marteau, T., & Spiegelhalter, D. J. (2018). Winners and losers: Communicating the potential impacts of policies. Palgrave Communications, 4(69), 1-13. 10.1057/s41599-018-0121-9. PDF
56. Brick, C., & Spiegelhalter, D. J. (2018). Winners and losers: Communicating the potential impacts of policies: Commentary on Zeller. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 10.1093/ntr/nty197. PDF
57. Ford, H., Brick, C., Blaufuss, K., & Dekens, P. S. (2018). Gender inequity in speaking opportunities at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Nature Communications, 9(1358), 1-6. 10.1038/s41467-018-03809-5. PDF
58. Moshontz, H., Campbell, L., Ebersole, C. R., IJzerman, H., Urry, H. L., Forscher, P. S., Grahe, J. E., McCarthy, R. J., Musser, E. D., Antfolk, J., Castille, C. M., Rhys Evans, T., Fiedler, S., Flake, J. K., Forero, D. A., Janssen, S. M., Keene, J. R., Protzko, J., … Chartier, C. R. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing psychology through a distributed collaborative network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 501-515. 10.1177/2515245918797607. PDF
59. Busic-Sontic, A., & Brick, C. (2018). Personality trait effects on green household installations. Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), 8, 1-11. 10.1525/collabra.120. PDF
60. Voisin, D., Brick, C., Valleé, B., & Pascual, A. (2018). When stereotype threat does not impair performance, self-affirmation can be harmful. Self & Identity, 18(3), 331-348. 10.1080/15298868.2018.1454339. PDF
2017
61. Brick, C., Sherman, D. K., & Kim, H. S. (2017). "Green to be seen" and "brown to keep down": Visibility moderates the effect of identity on pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 51, 226-238. 10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.04.004. PDF
2016
62. Brick, C., & Lewis, G. J. (2016). Unearthing the “green” personality: Core traits predict environmentally friendly behavior. Environment and Behavior, 48(5), 635-658. 10.1177/0013916514554695. PDF
63. Brick, C., McCully, S. N., Updegraff, J. A., Ehret, P. J., Areguin, M. A., & Sherman, D. K. (2016). The impact of cultural exposure and message framing on oral health behavior: Exploring the role of message memory. Medical Decision Making, 36(7), 834-843. 10.1177/0272989X15570114. PDF
2015
64. Binning, K. R., Brick, C., Cohen, G. L., & Sherman, D. K. (2015). Going along versus getting it right: The role of self-integrity in political conformity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 73-88. 10.1177/0013916514554695. PDF
65. Updegraff, J. A., Brick, C., Emanuel, A. S., Mintzer, R. E., & Sherman, D. K. (2015). Message framing for oral health: Moderation by perceived susceptibility and motivational orientation in a diverse sample of Americans. Health Psychology, 34(1), 20-29. 10.1037/hea0000101. PDF
2010
66. Brick, C., Seely, D. L., & Palermo, T. M. (2010). Association between sleep hygiene and sleep quality in medical students. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 8(2), 113–121. 10.1080/15402001003622925. PDF
67. Canseco-Gonzalez, E., Brehm, L., Brick, C., Brown-Schmidt, S., Fischer, K., & Wagner, K. (2010). Carpet or cárcel: the effect of age of acquisition and language mode on bilingual lexical access. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25(5), 669-705. 10.1080/01690960903474912. PDF