Laura McGuire
Laura McGuire is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University. She was a Research Assistant at the University of Manchester from 2007 to 2011 and then worked as a Research Assistant at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester from 2011 to 2012. Her research focus is on possible psychological barriers which prevent people living a more sustainable lifestyle in the context of the threat posed by climate change and tackling this very major issue from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The Psychology of Climate Change
The Psychology of Climate Change explores the evidence for our changing environment, and suggests that there are significant cognitive biases in how we think about, and act on climate change. The... (more)