Susan Clayton

Keywords: psychological impacts of climate change, climate anxiety, environmental identity, conservation psychology

Selected publications

• Clayton, S. (2021, in press). Environment, identity, and response to polluted landscapes. Sustainability. (special issue on Views of Self and Nature)
• Balmford, A., Bradbury, R. B., Bauer, J. M., Broad, S., Burgess, G., Burgman, M., Byerly, H., Clayton, S.,... & Nielsen, K. S. (2021). Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions. Biological Conservation, 261, 109256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109256
• Nielsen, K., Marteau, T., Bauer, J., Bradbury, R., Broad, S., Burgess, G., Burgman, M., Byerly, H., Clayton, S., Espelosin, D., Ferraro P., Fisher, B., Garnett, E., Jones, J., Otieno, M., Polasky, S., Ricketts, T., Trevelyan, R., van der Linden, S., Verissimo, D., & Balmford, A. (2021). Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioral science. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01109-5
• Tam, K.-P., Leung, A., & Clayton, S. (2021). Research on climate change in social psychology publications: A systematic review. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 117-143.
• Tam, K.-P., Leung, A., & Clayton, S. (2021). Social psychology of climate change in the Asian context: Introduction to special issue. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 113-116.
• Clayton, S., Czellar, S., Nartova-Bochaver, S., Skibins, J., Salazar, G., Tseng, Y.-C., Irkhin, B., & Monge-Rodriguez, F. (2021). Cross-cultural validation of a revised Environmental Identity scale. Sustainability, 13, 2387. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042387 [special issue on Exploring Global Environmentalism: Environmental Identity, Belief, and Pro-environmental Behaviors]
• Clayton, S. (2021). Virtue and sustainable behavior: A psychological perspective. In J. Kawall (Ed.), The Virtues of Sustainability. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Pearson, A., Tsai, C., & Clayton, S. (2021). Ethics, morality, and the psychology of climate justice. Current Opinion in Psychology [special issue on the psychology of climate change]
• Clayton, S. (2021). Climate change and mental health. Current Environmental Health Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-020-00303-3
• Clayton, S. (2020). Conservation psychology and climate change. In C. Henry, J. Rockström, & N. Stern (Eds.), Standing up for a Sustainable World: Voices of Change (pp 10-23). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
• Dietsch A., Wallen K., Clayton S., Kretser H., Kyle G., Ma Z., & Vercammen A. (2020). Introduction: New directions in conservation psychology at a critical time. Conservation Biology, 34 (6), 1335-1338.  https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13629
• Zhong, S., Pang, M., Ho, H. C., Jegasothy, E., Clayton, S., Wang, Z., Huang, C. (2020).  Assessing the effectiveness and pathways of planned shelters in protecting mental health of flood victims in China. Environmental Research Letters,  in press https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc446
• Clayton, S., (2020). Psychologists’ involvement in addressing climate change. IAAP Bulletin, 2 (3), 10-12.
• Baker, C., Clayton, S., & Bragg, E. (2020). Educating for resilience: Parent and teacher perceptions of children’s emotional needs in response to climate change. Environmental Education Research.
• Clayton, S. (2020). Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 74.
• Clayton, S. (2020). The insidious impacts of climate change: Mood, mental health, and psychosocial well-being. OneEarth, 2, 530-531.
• Clayton, S., & Karazsia, B. (2020). Development and validation of a measure of climate change anxiety. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 69.
• Truong, M.-X., & Clayton, S. (2020). Technologically transformed experiences of nature: A challenge for environmental conservation? Biological Conservation, 244.
• Clayton, S. (2020). Mental health on a changing planet. In S. Myers & H. Frumkin (Eds.), Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
• Nielson, K., Clayton, S., Stern, P., Dietz, T., Capstick, S., & Whitmarsh, L. (2020). How psychology can help limit climate change. American Psychologist.