A. Chakraborty Sabherwal, & G. Sparkman, Combined signals of scientific and social consensus best mobilize action on societal challenges even if government and industry oppose, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (29) e2533408123, (2026).

De Weerdt, L., Nichols, K. L., & Weber, E. U. (2026). Can wind energy help West Virginia off its coal-mining addiction? Energy Research & Social Science, 131, Article 104478. 

Finke, K., Nichols, K. L., Weber, E., & Tarnita, C. (2026). A Complex Systems Framework Reveals Hidden Context-Dependence of Behavior Transitions. Available at SSRN 6551078.

Geiger, S. J., Većkalov, B., Bartoš, F., Ruggeri, K., & van der Linden, S. (2026). Beyond Memory and Experimenter Demand: Scientific Consensus Messages Correct Misperceptions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 103038.

Goldwert, D., Sabherwal, A. C., & Vlasceanu, M. (2026). Governmental efficacy is a key psychological pathway to climate action. Communications Earth & Environment.

N. Molla, S.A. Levin, & E.U. Weber, Institutional dynamics produce resource curse traps, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (17) e2520474123, (2026).

Nichols, K. L., Matt-Navarro, J. M., Doiron, M. K., d’Adda, G., Weber, E. U., & Constantino, S. M. (2026). Do risk, time, and social preferences predict sustainable behavior? Evidence from a qualitative synthesis and meta-analysis. Ecological Economics, 228, 108804. 

Sabherwal, A., Goldwert, D., Vlasceanu, M., & Weber, E. U. (2026). Coordinated psychological intervention ensembles outperform single-mechanism designs across societal challenges. PsyArXiv. 

Cano Pecharroman, L., Tier, M. O., & Weber, E. U. (2025). Feature Importance of Climate Vulnerability Indicators with Gradient Boosting across Five Global Cities. Frontiers in Climate, 7, 1521507

Composto, J. W., Bielig, M., Bruns, C., & Weber, E. U. (2025). Changing norms of trust. Current Opinion in Psychology, 62, 102004.

Composto, J. W., Duncan, S. M., Johnson, E. J., & Weber, E. U. (2025). A meta-analysis of query theory, a psychological process account of framing effects. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. Advance online publication.

Composto, J., Greig, C., & Weber, E. (2025). Risk as Feelings Mediates Acceptance of New Technologies Across Trust Landscapes: From Nuclear Power to Carbon Capture and Storage. Available at SSRN 4911410.

Geiger, S. J., Imada, H., Maharja, C., Powdthavee, N., Vitale, V., Zhang, L., … & White, M. P. (2025). Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda. Global Environmental Change, 95, 103043.

Geiger, S. J., Köhler, J. K., Delabrida, Z. N., Garduño-Realivazquez, K. A., Haugestad, C. A., Imada, H., … & White, M. P. (2025). What we think others think and do about climate change: A multicountry test of pluralistic ignorance and public-consensus messaging. Psychological Science, 36(6), 421–442.

Gupta, R., Mauzerall, D. L., Constantino, S., Sparkman, G., Nambiar, M., & Weber, E. U. (2025). Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries: Insights from a large-scale field study in India. Energy Research & Social Science, 122, 103996.

Köhler, J. K., Geiger, S. J., Gellrich, A., Muensch, M., White, M. P., & Pahl, S. (2025). Reasonable or radical? First-order, second-order, and meta-stereotypes of different climate activists among the German public and climate activists. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 104, 102594.

Majumdar, R., Sparkman, G., Khosla, R., & Weber, E. U. (2025). Using norm networks to map cultural differences in predictors of proenvironmental behavior in the United States and India. Motivation Science.

Pickering, J., Hari, M., Kieseker, G., Jordan, M., Weber, E., Greig, C., ... & McIntosh, T. (2025). Building trust in the Energy Transition: An approach based on behavioral science. Energy and Climate Change, 100217.

Rashid, L., Composto, J., & Weber, E. U. (2025). Determinants of pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours in the digital era: The case of workers in high-emitting industries in Germany. In Uncertain journeys into digital futures (pp. 99–128). 

Remsö, A., Schmidt, J., Geiger, S. J., Većkalov, B., Krajnc, Ž., Laughton, I., … & Ruggeri, K. (2025). Trust in climate scientists is associated with political ideology: A 26-country analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology. Advance online publication.

Sparkman, G., Ginn, J., Attari, S. Z., & Weber, E. U. (2025). Americans and policymakers underestimate endorsement for the most popular climate solution narrative, combining personal and political action. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 525.

Tier, M., Deubelli-Hwang, T. M., Calliari, E., & Weber, E. U. (2025). A multi-country comparison of preferences for environmental justice in urban climate adaptation flood policy. SSRN Working Paper.

Blankenstein, N., Van Horn, J., Dekkers, T., Popma, A., Jansen, B., Weber, E. U., Pollak, Y., Figner, B., Crone, E., Huizinga, H., & Van Duijvenvorde, A. (2024). Adolescent risk-taking likelihood, risk perceptions, and benefit perceptions across domains. Personality and Individual Differences.

Caggiano, H., Constantino, S. M., Greig, C., & Weber, E. U. (2024). Community benefits can build bipartisan support for large-scale energy infrastructure. Nature Energy, 9(10), 1187–1188.

Caggiano, H., Constantino, S. M., Greig, C., & Weber, E. U. (2024). Public and local policymaker preferences for large-scale energy project characteristics. Nature Energy, 9(10), 1230–1240.

Chung, H. K., Tobler, P. N., & Weber, E. U. (2024). Uncertainty coding in the reward system. In Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (2nd ed.).

Composto, J., Greig, C., & Weber, E. (2024). Timely information about Carbon Capture and Storage can increase willingness to accept the technology by changing perceived risks and benefits. SSRN Working Paper.

Composto, J. W. (2024). Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: A multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace. Current Opinion in Behavioral Science, 61, 101468.

Constantino, S., Nichols, K. L., Matt-Navarro, J., Doiron, M., D’Adda, G., & Weber, E. U. (2024). On the predictive power of economic preferences assessed in the lab for environmental behavior: A qualitative synthesis and meta-analysis. SSRN Working Paper.

Creutzig, F., Becker, S., Berrill, P., Cave, B., Constantino, S., Grant, M., Heeren, N., Heinen, E., Hintz, J., Ingen-Housz, T., Johnson, E., Liotta, C., Lorek, S., Mattioli, G., McPhearson, T., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Nachtigall, F., Nagel, K., Närger, H., Pathak, M., Perrin de Brichambaut, P., Reckien, D., Reisch, L. A., Revi, A., Sudman, A., Wagner, F., Weber, E., Wilmes, M., Wilson, C., & Zekar, A. (2024). By and for people: Towards a public policy of human settlements in the 21st century. Nature Sustainability.

Molla, N., Weber, E., Levin, S., & Reese, S. (2024, December). Beyond extraction: Modeling and narratives for post-extractive futures in Appalachia. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, GC44D-04.

Molla, N., Weber, E., & Levin, S. (2024, December). Breaking the resource curse: A theoretical model of institutional dynamics and economic transitions in extractive communities. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, GC34D-04.

Tier, M., Weber, E., & Oppenheimer, M. (2024, December). Environmental justice preferences in urban climate adaptation flood policy: Residents & policymakers. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, OS53C-0794.

Weber, E. U., & Sparkman, G. (in press). Sustainability and the environment. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske, E. Finkel, & W. Mendes (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology (6th ed.).

Caggiano, H., & Weber, E. U. (2023). Advances in qualitative methods in environmental research. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 48(1), 793–811.

Caggiano, H., Constantino, S. M., Lees, J., Majumdar, R., & Weber, E. U. (2023). Community-engaged research is best positioned to catalyze systemic change. Preprint.

Choquette-Levy, N., Wildemeersch, M., Santos, F. P., Levin, S. A., Oppenheimer, M., & Weber, E. U. (2024). Pro-social preferences improve climate risk management in subsistence farming communities. Nature Sustainability.

Composto, J. W., Constantino, S. M., & Weber, E. U. (2023). Predictors and consequences of pro-environmental behavior at work. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4, 100107.

Levin, S. A., & Weber, E. U. (2023). Polarization and the psychology of collectives. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Majumdar, R., & Weber, E. U. (2023). Multilevel intergroup conflict at the core of climate (in)justice: Psychological challenges and ways forward. WIREs Climate Change.

Sisco, M. R., Constantino, S. M., Gao, Y., Tavoni, M., Cooperman, A. D., Bosetti, V., & Weber, E. U. (2023). Examining evidence for a finite pool of worry and a finite pool of attention to climate change. Global Environmental Change, 78, 102622.

Sparkman, G., & Weber, E. U. (2023). Beyond the single norm: How social perceptions connect in a norm network. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 1, 1302029.

Walker, B., Crépin, A. S., Nyström, M., Anderies, J. M., Andersson, E., Elmqvist, T., Queiroz, C., Barrett, S., Bennett, E., Cardenas, J. C., Carpenter, S., Chapin, T., Daily, G., de Zeeuw, A., Fischer, J., Folke, C., Levin, S., Nyborg, K., Polasky, S., Segerson, K., Seto, K., Scheffer, M., Shogren, J., Tavoni, J. A., van den Bergh, J., Weber, E. U., Wilen, J., & Vincent, J. (2023). Response diversity as a sustainability strategy. Nature Sustainability, 6, 621–629.

Weber, E. U., & Constantino, S. M. (2023). All hearts and minds on deck: Hope motivates climate action by linking the present and the future. Emotion Review, 15(4), 293–297.

Weber, E. U., Constantino, S. M., & Schlüter, M. (2023). Embedding cognition: Judgment and choice in an interconnected and dynamic world. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32, 328–336.

Ehret, S., Constantino, S. M., Weber, E. U., Efferson, C., & Vogt, S. (2022). Group identities can undermine social tipping after intervention. Nature Human Behaviour.

Composto, J. W., & Weber, E. U. (2022). Effectiveness of behavioural interventions to reduce household energy demand: A scoping review. Environmental Research Letters, 17(6), 063005.

Constantino, S. M., Cooperman, A. D., Keohane, R. O., & Weber, E. U. (2022). Personal hardship narrows the partisan gap in COVID-19 and climate change responses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(46), e2120653119.

Constantino, S. M., Sparkman, G., Bicchieri, C., Centola, D., Kraft-Todd, G., Shell-Duncan, B., Vogt, S., & Weber, E. U. (2022). Scaling up change: A critical review and practical guide to harnessing social norms for climate action. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 23(2).

Krueger, E., Constantino, S. M., Centeno, M. A., Elmqvist, T., Levin, S., & Weber, E. U. (2022). Governing sustainable transformations of urban social-ecological-technological systems. npj Urban Sustainability.

Reeck, C., Gamma, K., & Weber, E. U. (2022). How we decide shapes what we choose: Decision modes predict consumer decisions about environmentally friendly electrical utility rates and plans. Theory and Decision. (In press)

Sisco, M. R., & Weber, E. U. (2022). Local temperature anomalies increase climate policy interest and support: Analysis of internet searches and U.S. congressional vote shares. Global Environmental Change, 76, 102572.

Sparkman, G., Geiger, N., & Weber, E. U. (2022). Americans perceive a false social reality as they underestimate the popularity of climate policy support and climate concern by nearly half. Nature Communications, 13, 4779.

Constantino, S. M., & Weber, E. U. (2021). Decision-making under the deep uncertainty of climate change: The psychological and political agency of narratives. Current Opinion in Psychology, 42, 151–159. 

Constantino, S. M. *, Schlüter, M., Weber, E. U., Wijermans, N. (2021). Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social‑ecological systems. Sustainability Science, 16, 1651–1671.

Constantino, S.M. *, Pianta, S. *, Rinscheid, A. *, Frey, R. *, & Weber, E.U. (2021). The source is the message: The impact of institutional signals on climate change-related norm perceptions and behaviors. Climatic Change, 166:35, 1-20, 

Sisco, M.R., Pianta, S.,* Bosetti, V., & Weber, E.U. (2021). Global climate strikes sharply raise attention to climate change: Analysis of climate search behavior in 46 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology 75, 101-108.

Sparkman, G. *, Attari, S. *, & Weber, E.U. (2021). Moderating spillover: Focusing on personal sustainable behavior rarely hinders and can boost climate policy support. Energy Research & Social Science, 78.

van der Linden, S. & Weber, E.U. (2021). Editorial Overview: Can Behavioral Science Solve the Climate Crisis? Current Opinions in Behavioral Science.

Rinscheid, A., Pianta, S., & Weber, E.U. (2020). What shapes citizens’ preferences towards climate change policies? The role of social norms and elite cues. Behavioural Public Policy, Published online by Cambridge University Press, 3 November 2020. 

Rinscheid, A., Pianta, S., & Weber, E. U. (2020). Fast track or Slo-Mo? Public support and temporal preferences for phasing out fossil fuel cars in the United States. Climate Policy, 20, 30-45.

Sisco, M. R., Gao, Y., Constantino, S., Tavoni, M., Weber, E. U., & Bosetti, V. (2020). The International Panel on Climate Change and Air Pollution (ICAPP) Dataset. 

Weber, E. U. (2020). Seeing is believing: Understanding and aiding human responses to global climate change. Daedalus, Fall issue on “Witnessing Professionals and Climate Change.” 

Weber, E. U. (2020). Heads in the Sand. Foreign Affairs, 99(6), 20-26.

Attari, S.M.,* Krantz, D.H., & Weber, E. U. (2019). Statements about climate researchers’ carbon footprints affect their audiences’ policy support. Climatic Change, 154, 529–545

Klotz, L., Pickering, J., Schmidt, R., & Weber, E.U. (2019). Design for sustainability. Nature Sustainability

KLotz, L., Pickering, J., Weber, E., Contestabile, M., Pearson, A., Voinov, A., ... & Shealy, T. (2019). Twenty questions about design behavior for sustainability, report of the International Expert Panel on behavioral science for design. Nature Sustainability.

Shealy, T., Klotz, L., Weber, E. U., Johnson, E. J., & Bell, R. G. (2019). Bringing choice architecture to architecture and engineering decisions: How the redesign of rating systems can improve sustainability. Journal of Management in Engineering, 35(4), 04019014.

Sisco, M. R., & Weber, E. U. (2019). Examining charitable giving in real-world online donations. Nature Communications, 10.

Weber, E.U. (2019). Cognitive science of political thought: Some final reflections. Cognition, 188, 140.

Weber, E. U. (2019). The utility of measuring and modeling perceived risk. In Choice, Decision, and Measurement (pp. 45-56). Routledge.

Creutzig, F., Roy, J., Lamb, W. F., Azevedo, I. M., Bruine de Bruin, W., Dalkmann, H., ... & Weber, E. U. (2018). Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change. Nature Climate Change, 8(4), 260-263.

Klotz, L., Weber, E., Johnson, E., Shealy, T., Hernandez, M., & Gordon, B. (2018). Beyond rationality in engineering design for sustainability. Nature Sustainability, 1(5), 225-233.

Reeck, C., Gamma, K., & Weber, E. U. (2018, September). Feeling green: decision modes promoting environmentally-friendly consumer utility choices. In BEHAVE 2018 book of abstracts-conference proceedings. Hackenfort, Markus; Carabias-Hütter, Vicente; Hartmann, Cathérine; Janser, Marcel; Schwarz, Natalie; Stücheli-Herlach, Peter (Eds.).

Shealy, T., Johnson, E., Weber, E., Klotz, L., Applegate, S., Ismael, D., & Bell, R. G. (2018). Providing descriptive norms during engineering design can encourage more sustainable infrastructure. Sustainable cities and society, 40, 182-188.

Weber, E. U. (2018). Perception matters: the pitfalls of misperceiving psychological barriers to climate policy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(4), 508-511.

Bosetti, V., Weber, E., Berger, L., Budescu, D. V., Liu, N., & Tavoni, M. (2017). COP21 climate negotiators’ responses to climate model forecasts. Nature Climate Change, 7, 185–190.

Enkavi, A. Z., Weber, B., Zweyer, I., Wagner, J., Elger, C. E., Weber, E. U., & Johnson, E. J. (2017). Evidence for hippocampal dependence of value-based decisions. Scientific Reports, 7, 17738.

Jachimowicz, J. M., Chafik, S., Munrat, S., Prabhu, J. C., & Weber, E. U. (2017). Community trust reduces myopic decisions of low-income individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 5401–5406.

Majd, S., Conley, M. A., Weber, E. U., & Andlinger, G. R. (2017). Evidence of query theory as a tool to assist restrained eaters. American Journal of Health Behavior, 41, 33–41.

Schneider, C. R., Fehrenbacher, D. D., & Weber, E. U. (2017). Catch me if I fall: Cross-national differences in willingness to take financial risks as a function of social and state cushioning. International Business Review, 26, 1023–1033.

Schneider, C. R., Zaval, L., Weber, E. U., & Markowitz, E. M. (2017). The influence of anticipated pride and guilt on pro-environmental decision making. PLOS ONE, 12, e0188781.

Sisco, M. R., Bosetti, V., & Weber, E. U. (2017). When do extreme weather events generate attention to climate change?. Climatic Change, 143, 227–241.

Van Der Linden, S., Maibach, E., Cook, J., Leiserowitz, A., Ranney, M., Lewandowsky, S., ... & Weber, E. U. (2017). Culture versus cognition is a false dilemma. Nature Climate Change, 7, 457–457.

Weber, E. U. (2017). Breaking cognitive barriers to a sustainable future. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0013.

Weber, E. U. (2017). Understanding public risk perception and responses to changes in perceived risk. In Policy Shock: Recalibrating risk and regulation after oil spills, nuclear accidents and financial crises, 82–106.

Yoeli, E., Budescu, D. V., Carrico, A. R., Delmas, M. A., DeShazo, J. R., Ferraro, P. J., ... & Weber, E. U. (2017). Behavioral science tools to strengthen energy & environmental policy. Behavioral Science & Policy, 3, 69–79.

Attari, S. Z., Krantz, D. H., & Weber, E. U. (2016). Statements about climate researchers’ carbon footprints affect their credibility and the impact of their advice. Climatic Change, 138(1), 325-338. 

Attari, S. Z., Krantz, D. H., & Weber, E. U. (2016). Energy conservation goals: What people adopt, what they recommend, and why. Judgment and Decision Making, 11(4), 342-351. 

Fleurbaey, M., Bouin, O., Djelic, M. L., Kanbur, R., Laborde, C., Nowotny, H., ... & Zhang, X. (2016). Policy: Social-progress panel seeks public comment. Nature, 534(7609), 616-617. 

Foerde, K., Figner, B., Doll, B. B., Woyke, I. C., Braun, E. K., Weber, E. U., & Shohamy, D. (2016). Dopamine modulation of intertemporal decision-making: Evidence from Parkinson disease. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 28(5), 657-667. 

Fox-Glassman, K. T., & Weber, E. U. (2016). What makes risk acceptable? Revisiting the 1978 psychological dimensions of perceptions of technological risks. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 75, 157-169. 

Nyborg, K., Anderies, J. M., Dannenberg, A., Lindahl, T., Schill, C., Schlüter, M., ... & De Zeeuw, A. (2016). Social norms as solutions. Science, 354(6308), 42-43. 

Shealy, T., Klotz, L., Weber, E. U., Johnson, E. J., & Bell, R. G. (2016). Using framing effects to inform more sustainable infrastructure design decisions. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(9), 04016037. 

Shealy, T., Klotz, L., Weber, E. U., Johnson, E. J., Bell, R. G., & Harris, N. (2016). Alleviating biases in infrastructure decisions for sustainability: A summary of five experiments and a call to action for the engineering project management research community. Cle Elum, WA. 

Weber, E. U. (2016). What shapes perceptions of climate change? New research since 2010. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 7(1), 125-134.