Dr. Hunter Gehlbach

Biography

Hunter Gehlbach is a professor and program director of the PhD program at the Johns Hopkins School of Education. He is an educational psychologist with a focus on social psychology, particularly concerning the enhancement of social contexts within schools. His research aims to improve social perspective taking and to identify social psychological principles that enhance the storytelling effectiveness in environmental contexts, particularly regarding climate change and planetary health. Gehlbach's work includes leveraging photographs to increase learners’ appreciation for biodiversity and sharpening social science methodologies to improve the reproducibility of results. He has held significant academic positions, including a faculty role at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education from 2006 to 2015 and at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2015 to 2019, before joining Johns Hopkins. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 15.

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