🌍 Happy International #MotherEarthDay!

In line with this year’s theme “Our Power, Our Planet!”, we decided to design a collaborative planter for our office space—a little daily reminder of why we do our jobs: research and work together to facilitate a more sustainable relationship with nature! 🌱

Last week Jolanda Lindenbauer joined the #Klimatag 2026 in Vienna, presenting a poster on her current research using a large dataset from the Environment Agency of Austria

Take away: conflicting results suggest that not all #pro-environmental behaviours have the same relationship with #eco-anxiety.

New paper by Valeria Vitale introducing the #Nature Selection Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (NS-ERQ) – a new scale to measure how people intentionally choose natural #environments to regulate their #emotions. 🌿🧠

Click to read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494426000617

What happens when products are labelled as containing chemicals that are #persistent, #mobile, or #toxic? In our new #ZeroPM project paper we show that PMT labels increase public concern and support for regulation. 🔬

Read here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c01231

📸 Photobooth at the University of Vienna’s Psychology Department's #Carnival Party.

Happy belated festivities, or as you say in Austria “Lei Lei!” 🎉

At #ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) in Paris, Ellise Suffill presented her #ZeroPM work on integrating social data into the Essential Use Concept, followed by a roundtable on whether the consumer is always right and how to enable sustainable design. ♻️

#Chemicals #Pollution #Sustainability

Jolanda Lindenbauer joined the @envpsyvienna group last year as a student/research assistant, where she supports a project on the risk perception of #microplastics. She is also writing her master’s thesis with the group, looking at how #eco-anxiety and different #pro-environmental behaviours are related to each other. 🏡

Tatiana Shevel recently joined the Environmental Psychology Group as a #PhD student. In her research, she aims to bridge #sustainability science and #environmentalpsychology through the #inner_transformation approach. 🌱

New year, new recap! 🗓️

2025 was a pretty busy year for us and our EnvPsy Group at @univienna has grown quite significantly. We hope to keep this momentum going in 2026 and are already excited to share all the new projects & papers we have been working on!

🎵 Music can bring us together and motivate us to make a change. That’s why you should check out our Environmental Tunes 2025 Playlist for a collection of songs about the environment and/or protecting it!

🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3sMnHX9fvAfYHqeMPresvH?si=IjFb6OZ4SPWrUhP_POyDQw

Kuni Saffana recently joined the team as a PhD student, having received funding by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency (LPDP) Scholarship.

Her research will aim to advance the use of #psychometrics in #environmentalpsychology in order to promote conscious and responsible consumption

Happy Holidays from the @envpsyvienna Lab!
See you again in the new year. 🎄🎆

Addi Wala works both in #urban #research and in applied participatory #urbandevelopment here in Vienna. He is our organisational assistant for the RESONATE project, as well as our communications and social media manager (meaning he had to write this in third person about himself 🤓).

⛰️ Happy International Mountain Day (11th December)! #MountainsMatter

🌁 Earlier this month Christina Barz took part in a panel discussion after the new documentary by Harry Putz about melting glaciers (“Requiem in Weiß”) was shown at Sargfabrik. The movie was followed by a panel discussion; with Christina (on the left) providing valuable insights from the field of #EnvironmentalPsychology. Thank everyone who attended for the great evening and the stimulating discussion.

⛰️ Happy International Mountain Day (11 December)!

#MountainsMatter – they are the world’s water towers and global action is needed to preserve #glaciers and #mountains for future generations.

📸 The EnvPsy RESONATE Team recently visited the Gastein Healing Gallery, which is built into an old geothermal ore mining tunnel. The occasion: The RESONATE Spotlight Series, a symposium bringing together Nature-Therapy experts and enthusiasts from across the DACH-Region.

🛜 Project Spotlight: GOLIAT

The aims of #GOLIAT (5G expOsure, causaL effects, and rIsk perception through citizen engAgemenT) are to monitor #radiofrequency #electromagnetic fields exposure, particularly from #5G, provide insights into its potential #health effects, and understand how exposures and risks are perceived and best communicated. 📳

🏛️ Uni Vienna Team: Nina Vaupotič, Valeria Vitale, & Mathew White

⌛ Duration: 2022–2027

🌐 For more information visit: https://projectgoliat.eu/

When graduating high school, opportunities are vast and it’s not easy to choose!

@HeleneZillig visited the European School in Munich last month to answer questions and help students discover whether psychology is something they’re interested in—be it for their education, profession, or general future. 🎓

Hélène Zillig presents her research at the #ENLIGHTConference 2025!

She merged over 1,400 nighttime visits to #BlueSpaces with satellite data measuring Artificial Light at Night (#ALAN) to explore how the brightness of a location relates to perceived #safety and #wellbeing. 🌃