🌍 Happy International #MotherEarthDay!

In line with this year’s theme “Our Power, Our Planet!”, we decided to design a collaborative planter for our office space—a little daily reminder of why we do our jobs: research and work together to facilitate a more sustainable relationship with nature! 🌱

Last week Jolanda Lindenbauer joined the #Klimatag 2026 in Vienna, presenting a poster on her current research using a large dataset from the Environment Agency of Austria

Take away: conflicting results suggest that not all #pro-environmental behaviours have the same relationship with #eco-anxiety.

New paper by Valeria Vitale introducing the #Nature Selection Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (NS-ERQ) – a new scale to measure how people intentionally choose natural #environments to regulate their #emotions. 🌿🧠

Click to read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494426000617

What happens when products are labelled as containing chemicals that are #persistent, #mobile, or #toxic? In our new #ZeroPM project paper we show that PMT labels increase public concern and support for regulation. 🔬

Read here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c01231

📸 Photobooth at the University of Vienna’s Psychology Department's #Carnival Party.

Happy belated festivities, or as you say in Austria “Lei Lei!” 🎉

At #ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) in Paris, Ellise Suffill presented her #ZeroPM work on integrating social data into the Essential Use Concept, followed by a roundtable on whether the consumer is always right and how to enable sustainable design. ♻️

#Chemicals #Pollution #Sustainability

New year, new recap! 🗓️

2025 was a pretty busy year for us and our EnvPsy Group at @univienna has grown quite significantly. We hope to keep this momentum going in 2026 and are already excited to share all the new projects & papers we have been working on!