Beth Karlin

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Beth Karlin is the Founder and Director of the Transformational Media Lab within the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA) as well as a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Social Ecology, with a dual emphasis on Psychology and Public Policy. Her research focuses on integrating psychological insights into the design, implementation, and evaluation of social and environmental programs, with a focus on the use of technology and new media. Current projects investigate technology-enabled energy feedback, transmedia social action campaigns, and the communication of climate science to the public. Before coming to UCI, Beth spent a decade years working in K-12 education, holding positi...

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Beth Karlin

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Film and Social Change: Psychological Insights for Leveraging Impact

Public Acceptance of Smart Meters: Integrating Psychology and Practice

Affect to Action: Psychological Insights for Digital Activism

Proof That It's Working: Invisible Children in the Classroom

Transformational Media: A New Approach to Sustainability

The Usability Perception Scale (UPscale): A Measure for Evaluating Feedback Displays

The Psychology of Sustainability

Communicating Climate Behaviors: Framing and False Dichotomies

Psychological Research on Energy Feedback

Diffusion of Feedback: Perceptions and Adoption of Devices

Why We Do What We Do?

From Climate Science to Climate Impacts: Exploring the Role of Film as Boundary Object

Exploring Deep Savings: A Toolkit for Assessing Behavior-Based Energy Interventions