The Psychology of Climate Change: Understanding Impacts and Responses

The 2025-2026 J.R. Kantor Memorial Lectureship in Psychology presents Susan Clayton from the College of Wooster.

This presentation will examine how human abilities, motivations, and tendencies affect the ways in which we will be affected by climate change and the adaptive and maladaptive ways in which we respond to it. 

Clayton is the Whitmore-Williams professor of Psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Her research examines people’s relationship with the natural environment, how it is socially constructed, and how it is affected by changing environmental conditions. She is co-author of the widely used Climate Change Anxiety Scale and continues to study the ways in which climate change is affecting people’s lives and well-being.