Psychology and Climate Change

This dataset contains information generated from a research project on climate change and psychology. This project is a part of the requirements for the climate change component of the third year Integrated Science course at McMaster University. The project was completed in order to understand the relationship between climate change and psychology, including the impacts of climate change on mental health, and the social psychology principles behind the prevalence of climate change inaction among today's youth. General psychological concepts were covered in a podcast, meant for a lay audience. This podcast focused on the connection between climate change and mental health. As part of an extended abstract, public opinion poll data regarding climate change inaction in youth was analyzed, and results were discussed as part of a literature review. This dataset contains all documents and data pertaining to the project, including: research notebook, podcast audio files (both raw and edited), graphing of the poll data, extended abstract, and presentation.