Climate Change and Psychological Well-Being: Assessing Impacts and Promoting Resilience

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

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.