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My research investigates how individuals respond to and cope with global environmental crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss. With a background in psychology, I have focused mainly on the roles of psychological needs and emotions for climate denial and climate protection.
More specifically, in my doctoral thesis I investigated psychological functions of climate denial, such as emotion regulation and protection of privilege, and investigated relations of defensiveness with pro-environmental behavior and climate anxiety. I have also worked on projects relating to sufficiency - a similar concept to voluntary simplicity that aims at adjusting consumption levels to meet one’s psychological and material needs, while preserving a livable planet for future generations.
Currently, I am working in an interdisciplinary project on nature-based solutions at the climate-biodiversity-health nexus, in collaboration with the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Medicine. Within this project, I focus mainly on the intersections of nature-based solutions that benefit both the climate and biodiversity, while contributing to psychological well-being.
I am also interested in research on socio-ecological transformations and relations to psychology.
I am also happy to supervise theses connecting to the psychology of global environmental change (i.e., climate change and biodiversity loss), especially projects about emotions (e.g., climate anxiety, eco-anxiety, climate worry, ecological grief, hope), emotion regulation, and coping with global environmental change (e.g., in the form of denial/distancing/avoidance and/or pro-environmental behavior/collective action/activism/sufficiency). I am also interested in how local nature contact, nature connectedness, and nature-based solutions relate to responses to global environmental change and can therefore offer supervision of theses at this intersection. A psychologist by training, I mainly use psychological methods but have experience working in interdisciplinary contexts as well and am happy to supervise students from other disciplines. Contact me via email if you are interested: marlis.wullenkord@abm.lth.se
Keywords
- Environmental Psychology
- Climate Change
- Climate Denial
- Climate Anxiety
- Coping
- Emotions
- Psychological Needs
- Defensiveness
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De unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
Translated title of the contribution :The youth are completely right when suing the state Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper › Newspaper article
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From denial of facts to rationalization and avoidance: Ideology, needs, and gender predict the spectrum of climate denial
Wullenkord, M., 2022 Mar 23, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 193, 111616.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Was ist genug? Begründung, Potentiale und Empfehlungen für mehr Suffizi-enz(orientierung)
Translated title of the contribution :What is enough? Rationale, potentials, and recommendations for more sufficiency (orienta-tion) Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates
Wullenkord, M. C., Tröger, J., Hamann, K. R. S., Loy, L. S. & Reese, G., 2021 Oct, In: Climatic Change. 168, 3-4, 20.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Avoidance, rationalization, and denial: Defensive self-protection in the face of climate change negatively predicts pro-environmental behavior
Wullenkord, M. & Reese, G., 2021 Oct, In: Journal of Environmental Psychology. 77, 101683.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects
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Nature-based solutions at the climate-biodiversity-health nexus
Borgström, P., Smith, H., Akselsson, C., Björk, J., Johansson, M., Nilsson, L., Nilsson, P. M., Rebouillat, P. & Wullenkord, M.
2021/08/01 → 2024/07/31
Project: Research
Activities
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Knowledge for Sustainable Development – Lund University Research Conference
Cerina Wittbom (Organiser), Anna Meeuwisse (Organiser), Heiner Linke (Organiser), Johannes Persson (Organiser), Susanne Arvidsson (Organiser), Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt (Member of programme committee), Ellen Hillbom (Member of programme committee), Henrik Thorén (Member of programme committee), Lars J Nilsson (Member of programme committee), Vasna Ramasar (Chair), Per Mickwitz (Session chair), Kristina Jönsson (Keynote/plenary speaker), Julia Leventon (Keynote/plenary speaker), Jim Skea (Keynote/plenary speaker), Susanne Arvidsson (Session chair), Heiner Linke (Session chair), Tanya Andersson Nystedt (Session chair), Henrik Thorén (Session chair), Ellen Hillbom (Session chair), Lars J Nilsson (Session chair), Azher Hameed Qamar (Session chair), Johannes Persson (Session chair), Lauge Peter Westergaard Clausen (Presenter), Martin Lundqvist (Presenter), Mikael Ekvall (Presenter), Tommy Cedervall (Presenter), Mattias Wallergård (Presenter), Maria Hedin (Presenter), Alexandros Sopasakis (Presenter), Anders Sjöström (Presenter), Katja Woxell (Presenter), Rebecca Alice Pryce (Presenter), Jonas Michanek (Presenter), Max Koch (Speaker), Riya Raphael (Speaker), Peter M Nilsson (Speaker) & Marlis Wullenkord (Speaker)
2022 May 2Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of festival/exhibition/concert/performance