Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1852524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabrielle Wong-Parodi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabrielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong-Parodi |
| SIGNATURE | WONG-PARODI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5207-7489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Personal experiences matter for climate action
Flooding and elevated prenatal depression in rural Bangladesh: A mixed methods study
Prenatal depression can have lasting adverse impacts on child health. Little is known about the impact of floods on prenatal depression in low- and middle-income countries. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 881 pregnant women from September 24, 2023 to July 19, 2024 in riverine communities in rural Bangladesh. We recorded participant-reported flooding in the past 6 months, administered the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), and o…
Adolescent psychological health, temporal discounting, and climate distress under increased flood exposure in Bangladesh: A mixed-methods cross-sectional study
Adjust the thermostat and eat more plants? Comparing energy and climate knowledge amongst botanical garden members
In 2024, the residential sector accounted for approximately 15 % of United States energy consumption and 18 % of carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption, making household behavior an important area to target for energy conservation and emissions reductions. We surveyed botanical garden members ( N = 1108) about their knowledge of the energy savings and climate mitigation potential associated with common household behaviors. We asked part…
Underwater virtual reality for awe, ocean connectedness, and pro-environmental behavior: A randomized controlled trial
As the ocean’s capacity to sustain human and planetary health is increasingly jeopardized by anthropogenic stressors, there is an urgent need for the widespread adoption of pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) to protect the marine ecosystems upon which all life on Earth depends. Underwater virtual reality (UVR)—i.e., wearing a waterproof VR headset while immersed in water—is a novel immersive technology offering realistic underwater experiences th…
Navigating justice tensions in managed retreat
Examining individuals’ protective behavioral decision-making dynamics over repeated risks of heat waves in the American West
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies
Exploring antecedents to climate migration: Sense of place, fear and worry, and experience
The bond between people and the place they live has significant implications for their migration decisions. However, few studies have examined how this relationship endures in the face of experience with climate-related hazards and associated emotions, and whether detachment from place may be related to future migration. Here we address this gap using cross-sectional survey data from a representative probability-based sample of 1479 residents of …
Dynamic model of climate action
Descriptive social norms, social support, and behavioral response to climate-related and co-occurring health hazards
Climate-related health hazards pose grave risks to human health and well-being. Individual-level behavioral response is critical given increasingly severe climate-related health hazards, such as wildfire smoke, co-occurring with other health hazards, such as COVID-19. Existing models of behavior traditionally focus on the role of threat and efficacy appraisals; however, social factors, such as social norms and social support, are also of interest…
Visual displays for communicating scientific uncertainty in influenza forecasts
We offer a general method for testing the usability of visual displays communicating scientific uncertainty, illustrated with publicly available results from CDC's influenza forecasts. The heavy toll of seasonal influenza has prompted major investments in improving these forecasts, making them a focus of machine learning research. However, little research has been devoted to how well users can understand and use these forecasts to inform decision…
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation
The planned relocation of entire communities to less hazard-exposed destinations is an increasingly salient climate change adaptation strategy but often results in maladaptive livelihood outcomes. There needs to be understanding of how planning decisions affect outcomes—relocated people’s access to sustainable livelihoods, including physical, economic, natural, human, social and cultural assets. Here, drawing on data from 14 completed flood-relat…
A research agenda for the science of actionable knowledge: Drawing from a review of the most misguided to the most enlightened claims in the science-policy interface literature
Linking science with action affords a prime opportunity to leverage greater societal impact from research and increase the use of evidence in decision-making. Success in these areas depends critically upon processes of producing and mobilizing knowledge, as well as supporting and making decisions. For decades, scholars have idealized and described these social processes in different ways, resulting in numerous assumptions that now variously guide…
Improving adaptation to wildfire smoke and extreme heat in frontline communities: Evidence from a community-engaged pilot study in the San Francisco Bay Area
Exposure to climate hazards is increasing, and the experiences of frontline communities warrant meaningful and urgent attention towards how to mitigate, manage, and adapt to hazards. We report results from a community-engaged pilot (November 2021–June 2022) of N = 30 participants in four frontline communities of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. The study region is an area where low-income, non-English-speaking residents are inequitabl…
Media exposure, risk perceptions, and fear: Americans’ behavioral responses to the Ebola public health crisis
Priming close social contact protective behaviors enhances protective social norms perceptions, protection views, and self-protective behaviors during disasters
Public risk perceptions of shale gas development: A comprehensive review
Moving from interdisciplinary to convergent research across geoscience and social sciences: Challenges and strategies
National Science Foundation [NSF-1755088]
Hurricane adaptation behaviors in Texas and Florida: Exploring the roles of negative personal experience and subjective attribution to climate change
Understanding motivation to adopt personal household adaptation behaviors in the face of climate change-related hazards is essential for developing and implementing behaviorally realistic interventions that promote well-being and health. Escalating extreme weather events increase the number of those directly exposed and adversely impacted by climate change. But do people attribute these negative events to climate change? Such subjective attributi…
Support for public safety power shutoffs in California: Wildfire-related perceived exposure and negative outcomes, prior and current health, risk appraisal and worry
Integrating norms into the logic of energy and environmental policymaking
Wildfire Smoke Clean Air Centers: Identifying Barriers and Opportunities for Improvement from California Practitioner and Community Perspectives
As wildfire risk is projected to increase across most of the world, exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing global health issue. Clean air centers (CACs), public buildings designated to provide improved air quality to the public during a wildfire smoke event, have emerged as a community-oriented public health response to smoke. Some experts see CACs as the most effective way to reduce population exposure to wildfire smoke. Yet how and why smoke-v…
As California burns: The psychology of wildfire- and wildfire smoke-related migration intentions
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful
To co-produce or not to co-produce
Actionable knowledge and the art of engagement
Eliciting public concerns about an emerging energy technology: The case of unconventional shale gas development in the United States
A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the Covid-19 pandemic
When climate change adaptation becomes a “looming threat” to society: Exploring views and responses to California wildfires and public safety power shutoffs
Energy development and Native Americans: Values and beliefs about energy from the Navajo Nation
Technical tools and techno-centric methods used for energy resource management and policy planning and development can miss important social and cultural factors. This can in turn result in a failure to recognize potential barriers and opportunities for energy and resource development in culturally diverse communities. Given the complexity of socio-technical energy systems, multidisciplinary analysis approaches are needed to ensure that modeling …
Understanding and countering the motivated roots of climate change denial
Not under my backyard? Psychological distance, local acceptance, and shale gas development in China
Descriptive social norms, social support, and behavioral response to climate-related and co-occurring health hazards
Climate-related health hazards pose grave risks to human health and well-being. Individual-level behavioral response is critical given increasingly severe climate-related health hazards, such as wildfire smoke, co-occurring with other health hazards, such as COVID-19. Existing models of behavior traditionally focus on the role of threat and efficacy appraisals; however, social factors, such as social norms and social support, are also of interest…
Wildfire Smoke Clean Air Centers: Identifying Barriers and Opportunities for Improvement from California Practitioner and Community Perspectives
As wildfire risk is projected to increase across most of the world, exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing global health issue. Clean air centers (CACs), public buildings designated to provide improved air quality to the public during a wildfire smoke event, have emerged as a community-oriented public health response to smoke. Some experts see CACs as the most effective way to reduce population exposure to wildfire smoke. Yet how and why smoke-v…
As California burns: The psychology of wildfire- and wildfire smoke-related migration intentions
Insights for developing effective decision support tools for environmental sustainability
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful
The politics of Asian fracking: Public risk perceptions towards shale gas development in China
Environmental non-government organizations’ perceptions of geologic sequestration
Environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been influential in shaping public perceptions of environmental problems, their causes and potential solutions. Over the last decade, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged as a potentially important technological response to climate change. In this paper we investigate how leading US NGOs perceive geologic sequestration, a potentially controversial part of CCS. We examine how and why…
Community perceptions of carbon sequestration: Insights from California
Over the last decade, many energy experts have supported carbon sequestration as a viable technological response to climate change. Given the potential importance of sequestration in US energy policy, what might explain the views of communities that may be directly impacted by the siting of this technology? To answer this question, we conducted focus groups in two communities who were potentially pilot project sites for California's DOE-funded We…
The impacts of political cues and practical information on climate change decisions
Adapting to climate change will require people to make measured decisions, informed by the science relevant to those choices. Communicating that science is complicated by the politicization of the topic. In two studies, we ask how political cues, designed to evoke individuals’ sense of identity as believers or nonbelievers in global warming, affect a hypothetical decision: buying a home vulnerable to coastal flooding exacerbated by global warming…
Energy development and Native Americans: Values and beliefs about energy from the Navajo Nation
Technical tools and techno-centric methods used for energy resource management and policy planning and development can miss important social and cultural factors. This can in turn result in a failure to recognize potential barriers and opportunities for energy and resource development in culturally diverse communities. Given the complexity of socio-technical energy systems, multidisciplinary analysis approaches are needed to ensure that modeling …
Eliciting public concerns about an emerging energy technology: The case of unconventional shale gas development in the United States
Perceptions of electricity-use communications: Effects of information, format, and individual differences
Electricity bills could be an effective strategy for improving communications about consumers’ electricity use and promoting electricity savings. However, quantitative communications about electricity use may be difficult to understand, especially for consumers with low energy literacy. Here, we build on the health communication and graph comprehension literature to inform electricity bill design, with the goal of improving understanding, prefere…
Plans and Prospects for Coastal Flooding in Four Communities Affected by Sandy
The risk of coastal flooding is increasing due to more frequent intense storm events, rising sea levels, and more people living in flood-prone areas. Although private adaptation measures can reduce damage and risk, most people living in risk-prone areas take only a fraction of those measures voluntarily. The present study examines relationships among individuals’ beliefs and actions regarding flood-related risks based on in-depth interviews and s…
Effect of Risk and Protective Decision Aids on Flood Preparation in Vulnerable Communities
Although the risks of flooding demand responses by communities and societies, there are also many cost-effective actions that individuals can take. The authors examine two potential determinants of such adoption: individual predisposition to act and the impact of decision aids that emphasize the risk, the actions, both, or neither (control). Respondents are a representative sample (N = 1201) of individuals in the areas most heavily affected by Su…
Factors Influencing (Mal)adaptive Responses to Natural Disasters: The Case of Hurricane Matthew
Climate-related disasters are on the rise, with a 44% increase between 1994 and 2013, and the population at risk is ever growing. The need to help people protect their well-being, families, and homes is of utmost importance. We surveyed individuals impacted by Hurricane Matthew in real time in October 2016 to explore the role of mental health, self-efficacy, social support, and evacuation and attitudinal factors on disaster response. We asked, “H…
Framing clean energy campaigns to promote civic engagement among parents
Civic engagement is one important way citizens can influence the rate of decarbonization in the electricity sector. However, motivating engagement can be challenging even if people are affected and interested in participating. Here we employed a randomized controlled trial to assess the effect of clean energy campaigns emphasizing cost savings, health, climate, or health and climate, or no additional information at all (control) on civic engageme…
To co-produce or not to co-produce
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: Beyond cost in energy efficiency decision-making among office buildings in the United States
Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector
Solar photovoltaic (PV) is an important strategy to de-carbonize the energy sector in the United States and to reduce the health, environmental, and climate change damages associated with the production of electricity from fossil fuel sources. While the potential for solar PV in the residential and commercial sectors has been widely studied, the potential in educational buildings is largely unknown. Educational institutions account for 11% of tot…
The politics of Asian fracking: Public risk perceptions towards shale gas development in China
Not under my backyard? Psychological distance, local acceptance, and shale gas development in China
Do We Know Our Own Tornado Season? A Psychological Investigation of Perceived Tornado Likelihood in the Southeast United States
Reducing fatalities from tornadoes in the southeastern United States requires considering multiple societal factors, including the risk perceptions that influence how people interpret tornado forecasts and warnings and make protective decisions. This study investigates perceptions of tornado risk in the southeastern United States, operationalized as judgments of tornado likelihood. While it is possible that residents of the Southeast could learn …
Different preferences for recovery options of residential fire disasters: The effect of decision role and stressed emotion
Responding to simultaneous crises: Communications and social norms of mask behavior during wildfires and Covid-19
Governing energy in conflicted resource contexts: Culture, cost, and carbon in the decision-making criteria of the Navajo Nation
A sustainable energy future requires both technological advancement and understanding factors that drive attitudes and behaviors on energy consumption. Culture can influence preferences for sources of energy, consumption behavior, and incentives to change behavior. This paper examines, through two studies, the influence of various cultural, environmental, and economic outcome information provided through a decision aid for energy development on t…
When climate change adaptation becomes a “looming threat” to society: Exploring views and responses to California wildfires and public safety power shutoffs
Insights for developing effective decision support tools for environmental sustainability
Understanding and countering the motivated roots of climate change denial
Actionable knowledge and the art of engagement
Engaging People on Climate Change: The Role of Emotional Responses
Overcoming climate change skepticism and disengagement is a pressing challenge. Evidence suggests that reactions to climate science and proposed solutions are strongly driven by emotion. This paper explores whether negative emotional responses to learning about climate impacts support recognition of the reality and risks of climate change, and whether narrative-based climate communication is an effective means of eliciting such emotions. In an ex…
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
Psychology (28 works) · Business (26 works) · Geography (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Climate change (16 works) · Engineering (16 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (14 works) · Ecology (14 works)