Kaitlin Toner Raimi
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I study how social motivations promote or prevent sustainable behaviors, especially those related to climate change. I'm particularly interested in how people compare their own beliefs and behaviors to those of other people, how the desire to make a good impression can influence people to mitigate climate change, and how adopting one sustainable behavior affects subsequent environmental decisions. I also have ongoing work on how different ways of framing climate change affect people's attitudes toward climate policy.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Law and Public Policy
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Political Psychology
- Self and Identity
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Video Gallery
Exploring Belief Superiority Around Climate Change and Environmental Behaviors
"Well Don't Tell the Kids!" Interview
Journal Articles:
- Campbell-Arvai, V., Hart, P. S., Raimi, K. T., & Wolske, K. S. (in press). The influence of learning about carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on support for mitigation policies. Climatic Change.
- Hopkin, C. R., Hoyle, R. H., & Toner, K. (2014). Intellectual humility and reactions to opinions about religious beliefs. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 42, 50-61.
- Isaacowitz, D. M., Toner, K., & Neupert, S. D. (2009). Use of gaze for real-time mood regulation: Effects of age and attentional functioning. Psychology and Aging, 24, 989-994.
- Leary, M. R., Diebels, K. J., Davisson, E. K., Jongman-Sereno, K. P., Isherwood, J. C., Raimi, K. T., Deffler, S. A., & Hoyle, R. H. (2017). Cognitive and interpersonal features of intellectual humility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 793-813. doi: 10.1177/0146167217697695
- Leary, M. R., Raimi, K. T., Jongman-Sereno, K., & Diebels, K. (2015). Distinguishing intrapsychic from interpersonal motives in psychological theory and research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 497–517. doi: 10.1177/1745691615583132
- Leary, M. R., & Toner, K. (2015). Self-processes in the construction and maintenance of personality. In M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver, (Eds.), APA handbook of personality and social psychology (Vol. 4, pp. 447-467). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Leary, M. R., Toner, K., & Gan, M. (2011). Self, identity, and reactions to distal threats: The case of environmental behavior, Psychological Studies, 56, 159-166.
- Maki, A., & Raimi, K. T. (2017). Environmental peer persuasion: How moral exporting and belief superiority relate to efforts to influence others. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 49, 18-29. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.11.005
- Raimi, K. T., & Carrico, A. R. (2016). Understanding and beliefs about smart energy technology. Energy Research & Social Science, 12, 68-74. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2015.12.018
- Raimi, K. T., & Leary, M. R. (2014). Belief superiority in the environmental domain: Attitude extremity and reactions to fracking. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 40, 76-85. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.05.005
- Raimi, K. T., Stern, P. C., & Maki, A. (2017). The promise and limitations of using analogies to improve decision-relevant understanding of climate change. PLOS ONE, 12, 1-20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171130
- Toner, K., Gan, M., & Leary, M. R. (2014). The impact of individual and group feedback on environmental attitudes and intentions. Environment and Behavior, 46, 24-45. doi:10.1177/0013916512451902.
- Toner, K., Leary, M. R., Asher, M. W., & Jongman-Sereno, K. P. (2013). Feeling superior is a bipartisan issue: Extremity (not direction) of political views predicts perceived belief superiority. Psychological Science, 24, 2454-2462. doi: 10.1177/0956797613494848
- Truelove, H. B., Carrico, A. R., Weber, E., Raimi, K. T., & Vandenbergh, M. P. (2014). Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior: An integrative review and theoretical framework. Global Environmental Change, 29, 127-138. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.09.004
- Truelove, H. B., Yeung, K. L., Carrico, A. R., Gillis, A. J., & Raimi, K. T. (2016). From plastic bottle recycling to policy support: An experimental test of pro-environmental spillover. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 46, 55-66. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.03.004
- Vandenbergh, M. P., & Raimi, K. T. (2015). Climate change: Leveraging legacy. Ecology Law Quarterly, 42, 139.
- Vandenbergh, M. P., Raimi, K. T., & Gilligan, J. M. (2013). Energy and climate change: A climate prediction market. UCLA Law Review, 61, 1962.
Other Publications:
Courses Taught:
- Environmental Psychology for Public Policy
- Irrational Actors: Psychological Approaches to Decision Making
- Psychology of Climate Change
- Survey Design for Organizations
- Working in Diverse Organizations
Kaitlin Toner Raimi
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan
735 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
United States of America
- Phone: (734) 615-6944