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Why Good Intentions Often Do Not Lead to Action -- and Seven Ways to Fix This
February 26, 2016
Please join us for a Department of Psychology Colloquium with Dr. Robert Gifford from the University of Victoria:
The Dragons of Inaction:
Why Good Intentions Often Do Not Lead to Action -- and Seven Ways to Fix This
Dr. Robert Gifford, University of Victoria
Professor, Psychology
Professor, School of Environmental Studies
Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in the Human Dimensions of Climate Change
The Dragons of Inaction:
Why Good Intentions Often Do Not Lead to Action--and Seven Ways to Fix This
If almost everyone agrees that, collectively, we humans are modifying the global environment in many undesirable ways, and most of us have the best of intentions about being or becoming better environmental citizens, why are we not doing more to change our ways? In this talk, I describe 33 or so reasons, justifications, excuses, psychological barriers, or dragons of inaction (choose your term) for this, as detailed in my 2011 American Psychologist article (which, back then, listed only 29 dragons). Not to be too negative, being a dispositional optimist, I offer 7 feasible solutions to this problem, which Barack Obama and others have called "the issue that will define the contours of this century more than any other."
RSVP to: psycsecr (at) sfu.ca
Time: 2:30 pm
Venue: SFU Burnaby Campus
Location: Halpern Centre 126 Burnaby, BC
Website: http://www.sfu.ca/psychology
For information contact: Ellen Kurz E-mail: psycsecr (at) sfu.ca
Categories: Education
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