Publications

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  1. Law, K. F., Syropoulos, S., Crimston, C. R., Markowitz, E.M., Milfont, T. L., Claessens, S., Kyritsis, T., Atkinson, Q., Bastian, B., & Rottman, J. (Accepted). Cross-national insights into moral expansiveness: Selective valuation of nature versus humans. Journal of Environmental Psychology.

  2. Syropoulos, S^., Mah, A.Y.J.^, Dixon-Gordon, K., Markowitz, E.M., Reid, A., Ginn, J.^, Min, S.S.^, Lickel, B. (Accepted). Changes in dangerous and competitive worldviews during the coronavirus epidemic: Evidence from a large-scale U.S. panel study. Journal of Social and Political Psychology.

  3. Manalili, M., Law, K., Signorini, A., Chukwudebe, A., Amormino, P., Goya-Tocchetto, D., Markowitz, E., Young, L., & Syropoulos, S. (Accepted). The motivation to protect future generations as a source of meaning and mental well-being. Journal of Individual Differences.https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vrqfn_v1

  4. Callaham^, S., Mah, A. Markowitz, E.M. (Accepted). Beliefs that predict support for needs-based disaster aid distribution. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

  5. Syropoulos, S., Mah^, A., & Markowitz, E.M. (Accepted). Personal legacy: A psychological mechanism for increasing climate action and coping with climate change stressors. Journal of Mental Health and Climate Change.

  6. Syropoulos, S., Law, K.F., Kraft-Todd, G., Mah, A., Markowitz E.M., Young, L. (2025). Responsibility to future generations: A strategy for combatting climate change across political divides. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64, e12775.

  7. Mah^, A., Chapman, D., Lickel, B., Markowitz, E.M. (2024). Public preferences for sea-level rise adaptation vary depending on strategy, community, and perceiver characteristics. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change.

  8. Mah^, A., Lickel, B., Markowitz, E.M., & Reid, A. (2024). Climate change stress leads to diverse coping approaches depending on political beliefs. Ecopsychology, 16, 85-98.

  9. Mah^, A., Syropoulos, S., Markowitz E.M. (2024). Caring about one’s legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 100, e102471.

  10. Powning^, C. B., Harper, R. W., Bloniarz, D. V., Kahl, K. J., & Markowitz, E. M. (2024). Reviewing the Use of Research Interviews and Qualitative Inquiry in Urban Forestry: Understanding Human-Tree Relationships in the Built Landscape. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 128387.

  11. 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. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances, 10(6), eadj5778.

  12. Burgess, M.G., Van Boven., L.,…Markowitz. E.M.,…Vandenbergh, M.P. (2024). Supply, demand, and polarization challenges facing U.S. climate policies. Nature Climate Change.

  13. Bao, L., Calice, M. N., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., & Markowitz, E. M. (2023). Are productive scientists more willing to engage with the public? Science Communication.

  14. Syropoulos, S., Shrum, T., Demarest, B. & Markowitz, E.M. (2023). A Letter to Future Generations: Examining the Effectiveness of an Intergenerational Framing Intervention. Journal of Environmental Psychology.

  15. Marino, E.K., Maxwell, K. Eisenhauer, E., Zycherman, A., Callison, C., Fussell, E., Hendricks, M.D., Jacobs, F.H., Jerolleman, A., Jorgenson, A.K., Markowitz, E.M., Marquart-Pyatt, S.T., Schutten, M., Shwom, R.L., & Whyte, K. (2023). Ch. 20. Social systems and justice. In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Eds. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC.

  16. Starr, J. Nicolson, C., Ash, M., Markowitz, E.M., Moran, D. (2023). Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance. PLOS Climate, 2(8): e0000190. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000190

  17. Syropoulos, S. & Markowitz, E.M. (2023). Our responsibility to future generations: The case for intergenerational approaches to the study of climate change. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 87, 102006.

  18. Griffin^, L. P., Casselberry^, G. A., Markowitz, E. M., Brownscombe, J. W., Adams, A. J., Horn, B., Cooke, S. J., & Danylchuk, A. J. (2023) Angler and guide perceptions provide insights into the status and threats of the Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) fishery. Marine Policy, 151, 105569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105569.

  19. Burrows^, B., Abellera^, C., Markowitz, E.M. (2023). COVID-19 and climate change: The social-psychological roots of conflict and conflict interventions during global crises. WIREs Climate Change.
  20. Shrum, T., Platt, N., Syropoulos, S.^, Markowitz, E.M. (Accepted). Effects of parenthood on climate change engagement. WIREs Climate Change. doi.org/10.1002/wcc.818
  21. Nteta, T.M., Rhodes, J., Wall, G., Dixon-Gordon, K.L., La Raja, R., Lickel, B., Mah, A., MacWilliams, M., Markowitz, E.M., Reid, A., Theodoridis, A. (Accepted). Rooted in racism? Race, partisanship, status threat, and public opinion toward statehood for Washington D.C. Political Research Quarterly.
  22. Starr^, J. Nicolson, C., Ash, M., Markowitz, E.M., Moran, D. (Accepted). Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1996 – 2019). Ecological Economics.
  23. Huff, E.S., de Oliveira, A.C.M., Markowitz, E.M., Guckian, M., Lomonoco, L.^ (In press). Family forest owner perceptions of wildfire and invasive pest risk: the role of interpersonally-produced risks. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
  24. Reid, A.E., Eamiello, M.L., Mah, A.Y.J., Dixon-Gordon, K.L., Lickel, B., Markowitz, E.M., Nteta, T.M., Ginn, J., & Suh, S.M. (2022). Individual-community misalignment in partisan identity predicts distancing from norms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
  25. Syropoulos, S.^, & Markowitz, E.M. (2022). Perceived responsibility consistently predicts increased pro-environmental attitudes, behaviors and policy support: Evidence across 23 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
  26. Peters, E., Boyd, P.E. Cameron, L.D., Contractor, N., Diefenbach, M.A., Fleszar-Pavlovic, S., Markowitz, E.M., Salas, R.N., & Stephens, K.K. (2022). Evidence-based recommendations for communicating the impacts of climate change on health. Translational Behavioral Medicine. link
  27. Casselberry^, G.A., Markowitz, E.M., Alves, K., Russo, J., Skomal, G.B., Danylchuk­­­, A.J. (2022). When Fishing Bites: Understanding angler responses to shark depredation. Fisheries Research. link
  28. Epanchin-Niell, R.S., Jackson-Smith, D.B., Wilson, R.S., Ashenfarb, M., Dayer, A.A., Hillis, V., Iacona, G.D., Markowitz, E.M., Marquart-Pyatt, S.T., Treakle, T. (2022). Private land conservation decision-making: An integrative social science model. Journal of Environmental Management. link
  29. Syropoulos^, S., & Markowitz, E. M. (2021d). Prosocial responses to COVID-19: Examining the role of gratitude, fairness and legacy motives.Personality and Individual Differences, 171, 110488.
  30. Syropoulos^, S. & Markowitz, E.M. (2021c). Perceived responsibility towards future generations and environmental concern: Convergent evidence across multiple outcomes in a large, nationally representative sample. Journal of Environmental Psychology. link
  31. Syropoulos^, S. & Markowitz, E.M. (2021b). Mechanisms of intergenerational environmental stewardship activated by COVID-19: Gratitude, fairness and legacy motives. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. link
  32. Syropoulos^, S. & Markowitz, E.M. (2021a). A grateful eye towards the future? Dispositional gratitude relates to consideration of future consequences. Personality and Individual Differences. link
  33. Schneider, C., Zaval, L., Markowitz, E.M. (2021). Climate change and positive emotions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. link
  34. Guckian, M. L., Markowitz, E.M., Tucker, C.S., Kiekebushc, E., Klemm, T., Middleton, L., Wootten, A., Staudinger, M.D. (2021). Assessing the impact of an online climate science community: The Early Career Climate Forum. Weather, Climate & Society. doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-20-0150.1 link
  35. Quartuch, M., Markowski-Lindsay, M. Catanzaro, P., Markowitz, E.M., Allred, S.B. (2021). Applying the transtheoretical model of change to legacy planning decisions. Small-Scale Forestry. doi.org/10.1007/s11842-021-09476-7 link
  36. Syropoulos, S., Watkins, H.M., Shariff, A.F., Hodges, S.D., & Markowitz, E.M. (2020). The role of gratitude in motivating intergenerational environmental stewardship. Journal of Environmental Psychology. link
  37. Brough, A.R., Griskevicius, V., Trudel, R., Donnelly, G., Markowitz, E.M., Raimi, K., Reeck, C., Waldman, K., Winterich, K., Wolske, K. (2020). Understanding how sustainable initiatives fail: A Framework to aid design of effective interventions. Social Marketing Quarterly. link
  38. Mah, A.Y., Chapman, D.A., Markowitz, E.M., Lickel, B. (2020). Coping with climate change: Three insights for research, intervention, and communication to promote adaptive coping to climate change. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. link
  39. Shrum, T., van Boven, L., Gregory, R., Markowitz, E.M., Buck, H., van der Linden, S., Attari, S. (2020). A framework for understanding consumers’ risk and value assessments of carbon dioxide removal technologies. Interface Focus. link
  40. Orlove, B., Shwom, R., Markowitz, R.M., Cheong, S. (2020). Climate decision-making. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. link
  41. Feygina, I., Chapman, D., & Markowitz, E.M. (2020). Climate change: A challenge to human rights, justice, equality and human well-being. Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights. doi.org/10.1017/9781108348607 link
  42. Guckian, M., Markowitz, E.M., Lickel, B., & Chapman, D. (2020). From absolution to action: Examining Americans’ reactions to high-profile corporate scandals. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12196 link
  43. Rose, K., Markowitz, E.M., Brossard, D. (2020). The landscape of public engagement with science: Insights from 64 land grant universities. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916740117 link
  44. Howe, L., MacInnis, B., Krosnick, J.A., Markowitz, E.M., & Socolow, R. (2019). Acknowledging uncertainty impacts public acceptance of climate scientists’ predictions. Nature Climate Change, doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0587-5 link
  45. Markowski-Lindsay, M., Catanzaro, P., Zimmerer, R., Kittredge, D., Markowitz, E.M., Chapman, D.A. (2020). Northeastern family forest owner gender differences in land-based estate planning and the role of self-efficacy. Journal of Forestry, 118, 59-69. link
  46. Chapman, D., Gagne, T., Ovitz, K.L., Griffin, L.P., Danylchuk, A.J., Markowitz, E.M. (2018). Modeling intentions to sanction among anglers in a catch-and-release recreational fishery for golden dorado (Salminus brasiliensis) in Salta, Argentina. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 4, 391-398.link
  47. Markowski-Lindsay, M., Bell., K., Catanzaro, P., Kittredge, D., Leahy, J., Butler, B., Markowitz, E.M., Milman, A., Allred, S., & Sisock, M. (2018). In-forest & in-tact: Designating future use of FFO land. Journal of Forestry, 116, 357-366. link
  48. Guckian, M., Danylchuk, A., & Cooke, S., Markowitz, E.M. (2018). Assessing anglers’ intentions to communicate best practices in a catch-and-release fishery for steelhead in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Environmental Management, 219, 252-259. link
  49. Markowitz, E.M. & Guckian, M. (2018). Climate change communication: Challenges, insights and opportunities. In S. Clayton & C. Manning (Eds.), Psychology and climate change. San Diego, CA: Elsevier. link
  50. Wang, S., Chapman, D., Corner, A. & Markowitz, E.M. (2018). Public engagement with climate change imagery in a changing digital landscape. WIREs Climate Change, 9, e509. link
  51. Guckian, M., Chapman, D. Lickel, B. & Markowitz, E.M. (2018). “A few bad apples” or “rotten to the core”: Perceptions of corporate culture drive brand engagement after corporate scandal. Journal of Consumer Behavior, 17, e29-41. link
  52. Sokoloski, R., Markowitz, E.M., & Bidwell, D. (2018). Public estimates of support for offshore wind energy: False consensus, pluralistic ignorance and partisan effects. Energy Policy, 112, 44-55. link
  53. Nisbet M.C., Ho, S., Markowitz, E., O’Neill, S., Schafer, M., Thaker, J.T. (Eds) (2017). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication. New York: Oxford University Press. link
  54. Schneider, C., Zaval, L., Weber, E.U. & Markowitz, E.M. (2017). The influence of anticipated pride and guilt on pro-environmental decision making. PLOS ONE link
  55. Chapman*, D., Lickel*, B. & Markowitz*, E.M. (2017). Reassessing emotion in climate change communication. Nature Climate Change, 7, 850-852. (Shared first authorship). link
  56. Hopkins, D. & Markowitz, E.M. (2017). Geographies of climate change belief. In M.C. Nisbet et al. (Eds.) The Oxford Encyclopedia for Climate Change Communication. New York: Oxford University Press. link
  57. Markowitz, E.M., Chapman, D.A., Guckian, M.L. & Lickel, B. (2017). A corporate scandal that hits close to home: Examining owners’ responses to the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal. Environmental Communication, 6, 740-755. link
  58. Markowski-Lindsay, M., Catanzaro, P., Bell, K., Kittredge, D., Leahy, J., Butler, B., Markowitz, E.M., Milman, A., Zimmerer, R., Allred, S., & Sisock, M. (2017). Estate planning as forest stewardship tool. Forest Policy and Economics, 83, 36-44. link
  59. Markowitz, E.M., Danylchuk, A.J., Nisbet, M.C., Engelbourg, S.I. (2017). What’s that buzzing noise? Public opinion on the use of drones for conservation science. BioScience. 67, 382-385. link
  60. Yoeli, E., Budescu, D., Carrico, A., Delmas, M., DeShazo, J., Ferraro, P., Forester, H., Kunreuther, H., Larrick, R. Lubell, M., Markowitz, E.M., Ronn, B., Vandenbergh, M., Weber, E.U. (2017). Behavioral science tools for energy and environmental policy. Behavioral Science & Policy Journal, 3, 69-80. link
  61. Chapman, D., Wilson, R., Corner, A., & Markowitz, E.M. (2016). Climate Visuals: A mixed methods investigation of public perceptions of climate images in three countries. Global Environmental Change, 41, 172-182. link
  62. Milfont, T.L. & Markowitz, E.M. (2016). Sustainable consumer behavior: A multilevel perspective. Current Opinion in Psychology, 10, 112-117. link
  63. Markowitz, E.M., Grasso, M., Jamieson, D. (2015). Climate ethics at a multidisciplinary crossroads: Four directions for future scholarship. Climatic Change, 130, 465-474. link
  64. Grasso, M. & Markowitz, E.M. (2015). The moral complexity of climate change and the need for a multidisciplinary perspective on climate ethics. Climatic Change. link
  65. Zaval, L.*, Markowitz, E.M.*, Weber, E.U. (2015). How will I be remembered? Conserving the environment for legacy’s sake. Psychological Science, 26, 231-236. (Shared first authorship). link
  66. Nisbet, M.C. & Markowitz, E.M. (2015). Expertise in an age of polarization: Evaluating scientists’ political awareness and communication behaviors. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 658, 136-154. link
  67. Center for Research on Environmental Decisions* and ecoAmerica. (2014). Connecting on climate: A guide to effective climate change communication. New York and Washington, D.C. (Lead author for project). link
  68. Nisbet, M.C. & Markowitz, E.M. (2014). Understanding public preferences and judgments in policy debates over biomedical research: Looking beyond partisanship to focus on beliefs about science and society. PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088473 link
  69. Corner, A., Markowitz, E.M., Pidgeon, N. (2014). Public engagement with climate change. The role of human values. WIREs Climate Change, 5, 411-422. link
  70. Markowitz, E.M., Slovic, P., Vastfjall, D., & Hodges, S.D. (2013). Compassion fade and the challenge of environmental conservation. Judgment & Decision-Making, 8, 397-406. link
  71. Howe, P.D., Markowitz, E.M., Lee, T., Ko, C. & Leiserowitz, A. (2013). Global perceptions of local temperature change. Nature Climate Change, 3, 352-356. link
  72. Bowerman, T. & Markowitz, E.M. (2012). The attitude-action gap: Toward a better understanding of “how much is enough.” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 12, 230-238. link
  73. Markowitz, E.M. (2012). Is climate change an ethical issue? Exploring young adults’ beliefs about climate and morality. Climatic Change, 114, 479-495. link
  74. Markowitz, E.M. & Bowerman, T. (2012). How much is too much? Examining the public’s beliefs about consumption. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 12, 167-189. link
  75. Nisbet, M.C., Markowitz, E.M., Kotcher, J.E. (2012). Winning the climate change conversation: Framing and moral messaging in public campaigns. In L. Ahern & D.S. Bortree (Eds.), Talking green: Exploring contemporary issues in environmental communications. New York: Peter Lang. link
  76. Yang, Y. & Markowitz, E.M. (2012). Direct and indirect effects of parental attitudes on children’s active school travel: Evidence from a community sample. Transportation Research Record, No. 2318. link
  77. Markowitz, E.M., Goldberg, L.R., Ashton, M.C. & Lee, K. (2012). Profiling the ‘pro-environmental individual’: A personality perspective. Journal of Personality, 80, 81-111. link
  78. Markowitz, E.M. & Malle, B.F. (2012). Did you just see that? Making sense of environmentally relevant behavior. Ecopsychology, 4, 37-50. link
  79. Markowitz, E.M. & Shariff, A.F. (2012). Climate change and moral judgment. Nature Climate Change, 2, 243-247. link
  80. Swim, J., Markowitz, E.M., & Bloodhart, B. (2012). Psychology and global climate change. In S. Clayton (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. link
  81. Trumbetta, S.T., Markowitz, E.M., Gottesman, I.I.  (2007).  Marriage and genetic variation across the lifespan:  Not a steady relationship?  Behavior Genetics, 37, 362-375. link
  82. Markowitz, E.M., Willemsen, G., Trumbetta, S.L., van Beijsterveldt, T.C.E.M., Boomsma, D.I. (2005). The etiology of mathematical and reading (dis)ability covariation in a sample of Dutch twins.  Twin Research and Human Genetics, 8, 585-593. link