Expanding the role for psychology in addressing environmental challenges.

S Clayton, P Devine-Wright, J Swim… - American …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Environmental challenges, though daunting, present an important area for psychologists to
apply their knowledge. Psychological theories, research methods, and interventions are …

[BOOK][B] The Cambridge handbook of social representations

G Sammut, E Andreouli, G Gaskell, J Valsiner - 2015 - books.google.com
A social representations approach offers an empirical utility for addressing myriad social
concerns such as social order, ecological sustainability, national identity, racism, religious …

Legal innovation for social change: Exploring change and resistance to different types of sustainability laws

P Castro - Political psychology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In this article I argue that a desirable future direction for political psychology would be to pay
more attention to social‐psychological processes involved in the response to innovative …

Understanding people's ideas on natural resource management: research on social representations of nature

A Buijs, T Hovardas, H Figari, P Castro… - Society & Natural …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Ongoing fragmentation between social groups on the appropriate targets and relevant
actors for nature conservation signals the need for further advancements in theorizing about …

Social representations of sustainability: Researching time, institution, conflict and communication

P Castro - The Cambridge handbook of social representations, 2015 - books.google.com
The purpose of this chapter is to present and discuss some of the contributions the theory of
social representations can offer for a better understanding of the sociopsychological …

The Social Representation of Sustainable Mobility: An Exploratory Investigation on Social Media Networks

R Metastasio, E Bocci, P Passafaro, F Carnovale… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper analyzes the social representation (SR) of sustainable mobility as it emerges
from social media networks. The role of social media (SM) as contexts of creation …

[HTML][HTML] Google search based sentiment indexes

A Brochado - IIMB Management Review, 2020 - Elsevier
This study sought to confirm whether Internet search based data have the potential both to
reveal populations' underlying beliefs directly and to affect stock markets of countries–in this …

Psycho-social processes in dealing with legal innovation in the community: Insights from biodiversity conservation

P Castro, C Mouro - American journal of community psychology, 2011 - Springer
Mitigation measures for tackling the consequences of a changing climate will involve efforts
of various types including the conservation of affected ecosystems. For this, communities …

[PDF][PDF] Cognitive polyphasia in the reception of legal innovations for biodiversity conservation

C Mouro, P Castro - Papers on Social Representations, 2012 - psr.iscte-iul.pt
Cognitive polyphasia has mainly been used to address encounters between innovative
scientific knowledge and local, traditional knowledge. Yet, change and innovation occur in …

'Imagining ourselves' as participating publics: An example from biodiversity conservation

P Castro, C Mouro - Public Understanding of Science, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines how residents in Natura 2000 sites in Southern Portugal 'imagine
themselves' as publics participating in biodiversity conservation. Through nine focus groups …