Laura Mcguire
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Mcguire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcguire |
| SIGNATURE | MCGUIRE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edge Hill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Implicit Cognition and Racial Biases in Everyday Situations: Beyond Microaggressions and Felt Insults
This study uses an experimental paradigm to explore whether there is a racial bias in how White people respond to various misdemeanors involving Black or White protagonists. White participants were presented with a series of vignettes outlining various everyday scenarios. In each scenario, there was a protagonist displaying behavior that was either delinquent or just socially unacceptable. The race of the protagonist was systematically varied (Bl…
Personality and climate change mitigation: A Psychological and Semiotic Exploration of the Sustainable Choices of Optimists
Climate change is an anthropogenic existential threat that provokes extreme concern among climate scientists, but not, it seems, among all member of the public. Here, there is considerably more variability in level of concern and, it appears, in everyday sustainable behavior. But how does personality affect this variability in behavior? And how are underlying personality states like dispositional optimism linked to more sustainable everyday pract…
Talking green and acting green are two different things: An experimental investigation of the relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes and low carbon consumer choice
One major assumption in the climate change debate is that because respondents report positive attitudes to the environment and to low carbon lifestyles they will subsequently engage in environmentally friendly/low carbon behaviors when given the right guidance or information. Many governmental agencies have based their climate change strategy on this basic assumption, despite some anxiety about the value-action gap in psychology more generally. H…
Staying over-optimistic about the future: Uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages
There is considerable concern that the public are not getting the message about climate change. One possible explanation is “optimism bias,” where individuals overestimate the likelihood of positive events happening to them and underestimate the likelihood of negative events. Evidence from behavioral neuroscience suggest that this bias is underpinned by selective information processing, specifically through a reduced level of neural coding of und…
Mapping our underlying cognitions and emotions about good environmental behavior: Why we fail to act despite the best of intentions
Despite the widespread recognition of climate change as the single biggest global threat, the willingness of people to change their behavior to mitigate its effects is limited. Past research, often focusing on specific categories of behavior, has highlighted a very significant gap between people’s intentions to behave more sustainably and their actual behavior. This paper presents a new approach to this issue, by using more open-ended questions t…
Consumption and climate change: Why we say one thing but do another in the face of our greatest threat
There is clear evidence that human beings have contributed to climate change through their patterns of consumption, and, it could be argued that, since we are part of the problem then we must be part of the solution. The apparently good news is that people report that they have very positive attitudes to environmentally-friendly products and they also consistently say that they are prepared to adapt their behavior to ameliorate the effects of cli…
Harnessing the unconscious mind of the consumer: How implicit attitudes predict pre-conscious visual attention to carbon footprint information on products
Consumers clearly have a role to play in the global fight against climate change, since even relatively small changes in patterns of household consumption could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But what evidence is there that consumers do consider the environmental impacts of products when shopping? Indeed, how psychologically salient the carbon footprint labels that are now appearing on a range of products in various countries? Her…
An exploration of possible unconscious ethnic biases in higher education: The role of implicit attitudes on selection for university posts
Despite efforts to deal with the underrepresentation of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff in higher education, progress to date has been limited. We investigate the role of possible implicit attitudes towards ethnic diversity among staff and students at a leading British university. Ninety-six participants (48 White and 48 non-White) were presented with matched C.V.s of White and non- White applicants and were instructed to rate the suitabili…
See no evil? Only implicit attitudes predict unconscious eye movements towards images of climate change
This paper examines how measures of both explicit and implicit attitudes to the environment relate to unconscious patterns of eye movements towards or away from iconic images of environmental damage and climate change. It found that those with a strong positive implicit attitude towards low carbon products spent significantly more time attending to negative images of climate change than positive images of nature in a ten second interval, and this…
Are we too Optimistic to bother Saving the Planet: The Relationship between Optimism, Eye Gaze and Negative Images of Climate Change
This study represents the first investigation of the relationship between level of dispositional optimism and gaze preferences towards or away from negative images of climate change. It has been claimed by Isaacowitz that optimists wear 'rose-tinted glasses' in their processing of information about the world. This study tested whether level of optimism may be implicated in our current inertia with regard to climate change, and whether optimists q…
An inconvenient truth? Can a film really affect psychological mood and our explicit attitudes towards climate change
Previous research has claimed that providing people with information about global warming may have a negative (and unanticipated) effect on their explicit attitudes towards climate change. One study found that more informed respondents felt less personally responsible for global warming and also showed less concern for the problem as a whole. This earlier study was, however, correlational in design and did not allow for firm conclusions regarding…
Do We Actually Look at the Carbon Footprint of a Product in the Initial Few Seconds? An Experimental Analysis of Unconscious Eye Movements
An exploration of possible unconscious ethnic biases in higher education: The role of implicit attitudes on selection for university posts
Despite efforts to deal with the underrepresentation of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff in higher education, progress to date has been limited. We investigate the role of possible implicit attitudes towards ethnic diversity among staff and students at a leading British university. Ninety-six participants (48 White and 48 non-White) were presented with matched C.V.s of White and non- White applicants and were instructed to rate the suitabili…
Staying over-optimistic about the future: Uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages
There is considerable concern that the public are not getting the message about climate change. One possible explanation is “optimism bias,” where individuals overestimate the likelihood of positive events happening to them and underestimate the likelihood of negative events. Evidence from behavioral neuroscience suggest that this bias is underpinned by selective information processing, specifically through a reduced level of neural coding of und…
See no evil? Only implicit attitudes predict unconscious eye movements towards images of climate change
This paper examines how measures of both explicit and implicit attitudes to the environment relate to unconscious patterns of eye movements towards or away from iconic images of environmental damage and climate change. It found that those with a strong positive implicit attitude towards low carbon products spent significantly more time attending to negative images of climate change than positive images of nature in a ten second interval, and this…
An inconvenient truth? Can a film really affect psychological mood and our explicit attitudes towards climate change
Previous research has claimed that providing people with information about global warming may have a negative (and unanticipated) effect on their explicit attitudes towards climate change. One study found that more informed respondents felt less personally responsible for global warming and also showed less concern for the problem as a whole. This earlier study was, however, correlational in design and did not allow for firm conclusions regarding…
Harnessing the unconscious mind of the consumer: How implicit attitudes predict pre-conscious visual attention to carbon footprint information on products
Consumers clearly have a role to play in the global fight against climate change, since even relatively small changes in patterns of household consumption could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But what evidence is there that consumers do consider the environmental impacts of products when shopping? Indeed, how psychologically salient the carbon footprint labels that are now appearing on a range of products in various countries? Her…
Do We Actually Look at the Carbon Footprint of a Product in the Initial Few Seconds? An Experimental Analysis of Unconscious Eye Movements
Consumption and climate change: Why we say one thing but do another in the face of our greatest threat
There is clear evidence that human beings have contributed to climate change through their patterns of consumption, and, it could be argued that, since we are part of the problem then we must be part of the solution. The apparently good news is that people report that they have very positive attitudes to environmentally-friendly products and they also consistently say that they are prepared to adapt their behavior to ameliorate the effects of cli…
Personality and climate change mitigation: A Psychological and Semiotic Exploration of the Sustainable Choices of Optimists
Climate change is an anthropogenic existential threat that provokes extreme concern among climate scientists, but not, it seems, among all member of the public. Here, there is considerably more variability in level of concern and, it appears, in everyday sustainable behavior. But how does personality affect this variability in behavior? And how are underlying personality states like dispositional optimism linked to more sustainable everyday pract…
Are we too Optimistic to bother Saving the Planet: The Relationship between Optimism, Eye Gaze and Negative Images of Climate Change
This study represents the first investigation of the relationship between level of dispositional optimism and gaze preferences towards or away from negative images of climate change. It has been claimed by Isaacowitz that optimists wear 'rose-tinted glasses' in their processing of information about the world. This study tested whether level of optimism may be implicated in our current inertia with regard to climate change, and whether optimists q…
Do We Actually Look at the Carbon Footprint of a Product in the Initial Few Seconds? An Experimental Analysis of Unconscious Eye Movements
Are we too Optimistic to bother Saving the Planet: The Relationship between Optimism, Eye Gaze and Negative Images of Climate Change
This study represents the first investigation of the relationship between level of dispositional optimism and gaze preferences towards or away from negative images of climate change. It has been claimed by Isaacowitz that optimists wear 'rose-tinted glasses' in their processing of information about the world. This study tested whether level of optimism may be implicated in our current inertia with regard to climate change, and whether optimists q…
An inconvenient truth? Can a film really affect psychological mood and our explicit attitudes towards climate change
Previous research has claimed that providing people with information about global warming may have a negative (and unanticipated) effect on their explicit attitudes towards climate change. One study found that more informed respondents felt less personally responsible for global warming and also showed less concern for the problem as a whole. This earlier study was, however, correlational in design and did not allow for firm conclusions regarding…
See no evil? Only implicit attitudes predict unconscious eye movements towards images of climate change
This paper examines how measures of both explicit and implicit attitudes to the environment relate to unconscious patterns of eye movements towards or away from iconic images of environmental damage and climate change. It found that those with a strong positive implicit attitude towards low carbon products spent significantly more time attending to negative images of climate change than positive images of nature in a ten second interval, and this…
An exploration of possible unconscious ethnic biases in higher education: The role of implicit attitudes on selection for university posts
Despite efforts to deal with the underrepresentation of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff in higher education, progress to date has been limited. We investigate the role of possible implicit attitudes towards ethnic diversity among staff and students at a leading British university. Ninety-six participants (48 White and 48 non-White) were presented with matched C.V.s of White and non- White applicants and were instructed to rate the suitabili…
Harnessing the unconscious mind of the consumer: How implicit attitudes predict pre-conscious visual attention to carbon footprint information on products
Consumers clearly have a role to play in the global fight against climate change, since even relatively small changes in patterns of household consumption could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But what evidence is there that consumers do consider the environmental impacts of products when shopping? Indeed, how psychologically salient the carbon footprint labels that are now appearing on a range of products in various countries? Her…
Consumption and climate change: Why we say one thing but do another in the face of our greatest threat
There is clear evidence that human beings have contributed to climate change through their patterns of consumption, and, it could be argued that, since we are part of the problem then we must be part of the solution. The apparently good news is that people report that they have very positive attitudes to environmentally-friendly products and they also consistently say that they are prepared to adapt their behavior to ameliorate the effects of cli…
Staying over-optimistic about the future: Uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages
There is considerable concern that the public are not getting the message about climate change. One possible explanation is “optimism bias,” where individuals overestimate the likelihood of positive events happening to them and underestimate the likelihood of negative events. Evidence from behavioral neuroscience suggest that this bias is underpinned by selective information processing, specifically through a reduced level of neural coding of und…
Mapping our underlying cognitions and emotions about good environmental behavior: Why we fail to act despite the best of intentions
Despite the widespread recognition of climate change as the single biggest global threat, the willingness of people to change their behavior to mitigate its effects is limited. Past research, often focusing on specific categories of behavior, has highlighted a very significant gap between people’s intentions to behave more sustainably and their actual behavior. This paper presents a new approach to this issue, by using more open-ended questions t…
Talking green and acting green are two different things: An experimental investigation of the relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes and low carbon consumer choice
One major assumption in the climate change debate is that because respondents report positive attitudes to the environment and to low carbon lifestyles they will subsequently engage in environmentally friendly/low carbon behaviors when given the right guidance or information. Many governmental agencies have based their climate change strategy on this basic assumption, despite some anxiety about the value-action gap in psychology more generally. H…
Personality and climate change mitigation: A Psychological and Semiotic Exploration of the Sustainable Choices of Optimists
Climate change is an anthropogenic existential threat that provokes extreme concern among climate scientists, but not, it seems, among all member of the public. Here, there is considerably more variability in level of concern and, it appears, in everyday sustainable behavior. But how does personality affect this variability in behavior? And how are underlying personality states like dispositional optimism linked to more sustainable everyday pract…
Implicit Cognition and Racial Biases in Everyday Situations: Beyond Microaggressions and Felt Insults
This study uses an experimental paradigm to explore whether there is a racial bias in how White people respond to various misdemeanors involving Black or White protagonists. White participants were presented with a series of vignettes outlining various everyday scenarios. In each scenario, there was a protagonist displaying behavior that was either delinquent or just socially unacceptable. The race of the protagonist was systematically varied (Bl…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (7 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Carbon Footprint (4 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Ecology (4 works)