Publications

Peer-reviewed publications:

  1. Goldwert, D., Constantino, S. M., Patel, Y., Sabherwal, A., Semken, C., Brick, C., Castiglione, A., Debnath, R., Doell, K. C., Dubey, R., Fang, K., Goldberg, M. H., Ma, W. J., Nielsen, K. S., Rathje, S., Schneider, C. R., Sheldrick, M., Shreedhar, G., van der Linden, S., … Vlasceanu, M. (2026). A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy. PNAS Nexus, 5(1), pgaf400.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf400
  2. Todorova, B., Zhang, L., Lengersdorff, L., Doell, K. C., Nitschke, J. P., Forbes, P. A. G., Pahl, S., & Lamm, C. (2025). Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs pro-environmental decisions. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 166.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00347-x
  3. Mede, N. G., Cologna, V., Berger, S., C. Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., W. Maibach, E., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., S. Schäfer, M., van der Linden, S., Abdul Aziz, N. I., Abdulsalam, S., Abu Shamsi, N., Aczel, B., Adinugroho, I., Alabrese, E., Aldoh, A., Alfano, M., … TISP Consortium (… Doell, K. C., …), & Zwaan, R. A. (2025). Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries: Global Evidence on How People Encounter and Engage with Information about Science. Science Communication, 10755470251376615.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470251376615
  4. Todorova, B., Steininger, M. O., Lamm, C., & Doell, K. C. (2025). Neuroscience and climate action: Intersecting pathways for brain and planetary health. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 63, 101522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101522
  5. Toribio-Flórez, D., Altenmüller, M. S., Douglas, K. M., Gollwitzer, M., Adinugroho, I., Alfano, M., Apriliawati, D., Azevedo, F., Betsch, C., Białobrzeska, O., Bret, A., Valdez, A. C., Cologna, V., Czarnek, G., Delouvée, S., Doell, K. C., Dohle, S., Dubrov, D., Dzimińska, M., … Wojcik, A. D. (2025). Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood. European Journal of Social Psychology, 0, 1:18. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70008
  6. Todorova, B., Steyrl, D., Hornsey, M. J., Pearson, S., Brick, C., Lange, F., Van Bavel, J. J., Vlasceanu, M., Lamm, C., & Doell, K. C. (2025). Machine learning identifies key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors. Npj Climate Action, 4(1), 1–12.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-025-00251-4  
  7. Cologna, V., Meiler, S., Kropf, C. M., Lüthi, S., Mede, N. G., Bresch, D. N., Lecuona, O., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E. W., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Schäfer, M. S., Linden, S. van der. & TISP Consortium (… Doell, K. C., …). (2025). Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world. Nature Climate Change, 15(7), 725–735.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02372-4
  8. Mills, J. D., Gulcebi, M. I., Allatt, J., Amos, A., Atkinson, J., Berwick, J., Clayton, S., Dijk, D.-J., Doell, K. C., Ebi, K., Fleischer, C. C., Hajat, S., Howarth, C., Jones, O., Maslin, M., Page, L., Romanello, M., Vanhala, L., & Sisodiya, S. M. (2024). Climate change and neurological diseases: Report from the Hot Brain 2: Climate Change and Brain Health meeting, 2024. BMJ Neurology Open, 6(2), e000929.
    https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjno-2024-000929
  9. Stekelenburg, A. van, Bleize, D. N. M., van’t Riet, J., Schaap, G., Vlasceanu, M., & Doell, K. C. (2024). Communicating consensus among climate scientists increases estimates of consensus and belief in human-caused climate change across the globe. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 100, 102480.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102480
  10. Goldwert, D., Doell, K. C., Van Bavel, J. J., & Vlasceanu, M. (2024). Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 100, 102482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102482
  11. Voelkel, J. G., Stagnaro, M. N., Chu, J. Y., Pink, S. L., Mernyk, J. S., Redekopp, C., Ghezae, I., Cashman, M., Adjodah, D., Allen, L. G., Allis, L. V., Baleria, G., Ballantyne, N., Van Bavel, J. J., Blunden, H., Braley, A., Bryan, C. J., Celniker, J. B., Cikara, M., … Doell, K. C., … Willer, R. (2024). Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Science, 386(6719), eadh4764.
    https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh4764
  12. Doell*, K. C., Todorova*, B., Vlasceanu*, M., Bak Coleman, J. B., Pronizius, E., Schumann, P., Azevedo, F., Patel, Y., Berkebile-Wineberg, M. M., Brick, C., Lange, F., Grayson, S. J., Pei, Y., Chakroff, A., van den Broek, K. L., Lamm, C., Vlasceanu, D., Constantino, S. M., Rathje, S., … Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1066.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1
  13. Berkebile-Weinberg, M., Goldwert, D., Doell, K. C., Van Bavel, J. J., & Vlasceanu, M. (2024). The differential impact of climate interventions along the political divide in 60 countries. Nature Communications, 15(1), 3885. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48112-8
  14. Cologna, V., Mede, N. G., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E. W., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Schäfer, M. S., van der Linden, S., Abdul Aziz, N. I., Abdulsalam, S., Shamsi, N. A., Aczel, B., Adinugroho, I., Alabrese, E., Aldoh, A., Alfano, M., … Doell, K. C.,  …Zwaan, R. A. (2025). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–18.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02090-5
  15. Mede, N. G., Cologna, V., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E. W., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Schäfer, M. S., van der Linden, S., Abdul Aziz, N. I., Abdulsalam, S., Shamsi, N. A., Aczel, B., Adinugroho, I., Alabrese, E., Aldoh, A., Alfano, M., … Doell, K. C., … Zwaan, R. A. (2025). Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset. Scientific Data, 12(1), 114.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04100-7
  16. Vlasceanu*, M., Doell*, K. C., Bak-Coleman*, J., Todorova, B., Berkebile-Weinberg, M. M., Grayson, S. J., Patel, Y., Goldwert, D., Pei, Y., Chakroff, A., Pronizius, E., Broek, K. L. van den, Vlasceanu, D., Constantino, S., Morais, M. J., Schumann, P., Rathje, S., Fang, K., Aglioti, S. M., … Bavel, J. J. V. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances, 10(6), eadj5778.
    https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778
    Designated as a “Hot Paper” by Web of Science (top 0.1% of papers by citations in the field)
  17. Doell, K. C., Berman, M., Bratman, G. N., Knutson, B., Kühn, S., Lamm, C., Pahl, S., Sawe, N., Van Bavel, J. J., White, M. P., & Brosch, T. (2023) Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research. Nature Climate Change. 13:1288-1287. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01857-4
  18. Doell, K. C. (2023) Megastudies to test the efficacy of behavioural interventions. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2, 263. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00174-z
  19. Koppel, L., Robertson, C. E., Doell, K. C., Javeed, A. M., Rasmussen, J., Rathje, S., Vlasceanu, M., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2023). Individual-level solutions may support system-level change if they are internalized as part of one’s social identity. Brain & Behavioral Sciences. 46:e165.
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2300105X 
  20. Doell, K. C., Conte B., Brosch, T. (2021) Interindividual differences in environmentally relevant positive trait affect impacts sustainable behaviour in everyday life. Scientific Reports 11:1–11.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99438-y
  21. Doell*, K. C., Parnamets*, P., Harris, E. A., & Van Bavel, J. J., (2021). Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 42:54-59.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.03.013
  22. Doell, K. C., Etchanchu, H., Miendlarzewska, E., Slade Shantz, A., & Zietsma, C. (2021). Do Social Contagion Frames Motivate Climate Action? A Field-Experiment. Conference proceedings paper for the European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2021.
  23. Van Bavel, J. J., Harris, E. A., Pärnamets, P., Rathje, S., Doell, K. C., & Tucker, J. A. (2021). Political Psychology in the Digital (mis)Information age: A Model of News Belief and Sharing. Social Issues and Policy Review, 15(1), 84–113. https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12077
  24. Doell*, K. C., Olié*, E., Courtet, P., Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C., Perroud, N., & Schwartz, S. (2020). Atypical processing of social anticipation and feedback in borderline personality disorder. NeuroImage: Clinical, 25, 102126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2019.102126
  25. Olié*, E., Doell*, K. C., Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C., Courtet, P., Perroud, N., & Schwartz, S. (2018). Physical pain recruits the nucleus accumbens during social distress in borderline personality disorder. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13, 1071–80.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsy078
  26. Aberg, K. C., Doell, K. C., & Schwartz, S. (2017). The “creative right brain” revisited: Individual creativity and associative priming in the right hemisphere relate to hemispheric asymmetries in reward brain function. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991), 1–14.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw288
  27. Aberg, K. C., Doell, K. C., & Schwartz, S. (2016a). The left hemisphere learns what is right: Hemispatial reward learning depends on reinforcement learning processes in the contralateral hemisphere. Neuropsychologia, 89, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.05.023
  28. Aberg, K. C., Doell, K. C., & Schwartz, S. (2016b). Linking individual learning styles to approach-avoidance motivational traits and computational aspects of reinforcement learning. PLoS ONE, 11(11), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166675
  29. Aberg, K. C., Doell, K. C., & Schwartz, S. (2015). Hemispheric asymmetries in striatal reward responses relate to approach – avoidance learning and encoding of positive – negative prediction errors in dopaminergic midbrain regions. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(43), 14491–14500.
    https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1859-15.2015

Book Chapters:

  1. Lamm, C., Wyss, A., Brosch, T., Todorova, B., & Doell, K. C. (2024). Leveraging the Social Neuroscience of Prosocial Behaviour to Advance Our Understanding of Pro-environmental Behaviour. In S. Kühn (Ed.), Environmental Neuroscience. Springer Berlin, Heidelberg.

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