Rachel I. McDonald

Columbia University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Environmental Education and Sustainability(12), Behavioral Health and Interventions(10), Climate Change Communication and Perception(7), Social and Intergroup Psychology(6), Cultural Differences and Values(2)

Publications19 total

Social identity–based barriers to pro-environmental intentions
Marketing Letters·2024· 1 cited
Predicting climate change risk perception and willingness to act
Journal of Environmental Psychology·2019· 226 citedOpen Access
Motivated secrecy: Politics, relationships, and regrets.
Motivation Science·2019· 39 cited
Climate Change Attitudes Measure
PsycTESTS Dataset·2019
Perceived Temporal and Geographic Distance and Public Opinion about Climate Change
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science·2016· 18 cited
Global Climate Change: A Social Identity Perspective on Informational and Structural Interventions
Peace psychology book series·2016· 25 cited
Personal experience and the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change: An integrative review
Journal of Environmental Psychology·2015· 617 cited
Social norms and social influence
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences·2015· 285 cited
The Psychology of Environmental Decisions
Annual Review of Environment and Resources·2014· 120 cited
‘Happy to have been of service’: The Yale archive as a window into the engaged followership of participants in Milgram's ‘obedience’ experiments
British Journal of Social Psychology·2014· 103 cited
Would you rule out going green? The effect of inclusion versus exclusion mindset on pro‐environmental willingness
European Journal of Social Psychology·2014· 8 cited
How negative descriptive norms for healthy eating undermine the effects of positive injunctive norms
Journal of Applied Social Psychology·2014· 69 cited
Conflicting social norms and community conservation compliance
Journal for Nature Conservation·2014· 43 cited
Matching construals to the psychological distance of actions and impacts: Implications for framing climate change to promote pro-environmental decisions
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2014
Energizing and De-Motivating Effects of Norm-Conflict
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin·2012· 91 cited
Conflicting Norms Highlight the Need for Action
Environment and Behavior·2012· 52 cited
When norms collide: how conflicting and congruent ingroup norms influence environmental decision making
Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland)·2012
Individual-Level Responses to Climate Change: The Impact of Conflicting Social Norms
PsycEXTRA Dataset·2010
Theory of planned behaviour, identity and intentions to engage in environmental activism
Journal of Environmental Psychology·2008· 840 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Winnifred R. Louis(6), Ben R. Newell(6), Kelly S. Fielding(5), Marilynn B. Brewer(3), Brett K. Hayes(3), Belinda Xie(2), Hui Yi Chai(1), Christian S. Crandall(1), S. Alexander Haslam(1), Stephen Reicher(1), Kathryn Millard(1), Mina Staunton(1), Joanne R. Smith(1), Deborah J. Terry(1), Jessica M. Salerno(1), Katharine H. Greenaway(1), Michael L. Slepian(1), Mark A. Ferguson(1), Nyla R. Branscombe(1), Thomas F. Denson(1)