Shahzeen Attari: Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change
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Episode Shahzeen Attari: Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change
An environmental researcher examines perceptions of energy use & conservation and asks how we can inspire behavioral change and policy support in individuals and the public at large. With a background in environmental engineering and training in cognitive science, Dr. Attari searches for the narratives that can help us improve our environmental decision-making.
[Shahzeen Attari](https://www.szattari.com/) works on environmental decision-making at the individual level, looking at biases that shape people’s judgments and decisions about resource use, especially use of energy and water. She is an [Associate Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University](https://spea.indiana.edu/faculty-research/directory/profiles/faculty/full-time/attari-shahzeen.html). She holds a joint PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon, as well as a BS in Engineering Physics from the [University of Illinois](http://illinois.edu/). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the [Earth Institute and the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED)](http://cred.columbia.edu/) at Columbia University. Dr Attari is a 02017-18 Fellow at the [Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences](http://casbs.stanford.edu/) (CASBS) at Stanford University (co-producers of this talk) and a 02018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
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