Dr. Madalina Vlasceanu

Biography

Madalina Vlasceanu is a leading researcher at Stanford University's Doerr School of Sustainability, directing the Climate Cognition Lab. Her research primarily focuses on the psychological mechanisms underlying climate solutions through social cognition, collective beliefs, decision-making, and actions. Madalina employs a diverse array of research methods including behavioral experiments, field studies, and international collaborations to design and implement interventions that stimulate social change and improve societal welfare amid the ongoing climate crisis. Her work fundamentally bridges basic and applied science, creating insights that inform policy relevant to current societal issues. She investigates the effectiveness of behavioral interventions in promoting climate action while examining the impact of political ideology and cultural values on the success of these initiatives. Madalina's commitment to ecological validity in research involves deploying methodologies that capture the real-world implications of climate cognition and the effectiveness of various communication strategies in motivating individual and collective climate action.

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