Susan Clayton

Susan Clayton is Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology and chair of Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. Her PhD, in social psychology, is from Yale University. She has authored or edited five books, including the Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Conservation Psychology (2012), Conservation Psychology (with Gene Myers; 2nd edition in press), and Identity and the Natural Environment (2003, with Susan Opotow). She co-authored the American Psychological Association (APA) reports on “Psychology and Global Climate Change” and “Psychological Impacts of Climate Change.” Clayton is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, of which she is also president-elect.

Contributions to Humans & Nature:

Questions for a Resilient Future responses:

• Preserving the Things We Value

• Learning to Care about Animal Conservation

Articles in Minding Nature:

• Can Psychology Help Save the World?

Noteworthy Links:

• Professor Clayton’s faculty page
  Learn more about Susan Clayton’s research and publications.