Joseph Reser
Biographic Data
| ID | 662880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Reser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Reser |
| SIGNATURE | RESER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1139-6587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The role of climate change risk perception, response efficacy, and psychological adaptation in pro-environmental behavior
The nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of climate change
Following a previous 2014 review of perceived personal experience of climate change, the authors review relevant research published or reported between January 2014 and mid‐year 2019. The review findings suggest that the nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of natural environment changes, conditions, and events deemed to be likely consequences of global climate change have been problematically conceptualized, resea…
We’re the same as the Inuit
Preaching to different choirs
What time to adapt? The role of discretionary time in sustaining the climate change value–action gap
Seeing red’ in national parks
Encountering climate change
Individuals' direct exposure to and experience of climate change are arguably integral aspects of their risk perceptions, understandings, and engagement with the issue. Recent research investigating these experiences has thrown into sharp relief some fundamental considerations with respect to public risk perceptions and responses, in particular the extent to which such perceived encounters might reflect a priori beliefs and motivated reasoning. F…
Audience segmentation and climate change communication
Engaging the public about mitigating or adapting to climate change threats poses significant challenges for scientists, policy makers, and others responsible for developing communication strategies. In response to these challenges, interest is growing in audience segmentation as a possible strategy to develop more effective communications that are tailored and targeted to subgroups of the public who share similar values, beliefs, behaviors, and/o…
Ecopsychology in the Antipodes
Psychology's contributions to understanding and addressing global climate change
Global climate change poses one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in this century. This article, which introduces the American Psychologist special issue on global climate change, follows from the report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change. In this article, we place psychological dimensions of climate change within the broader context of human dimensions of cl…
Adapting to and coping with the threat and impacts of climate change
This article addresses the nature and challenge of adaptation in the context of global climate change. The complexity of "climate change" as threat, environmental stressor, risk domain, and impacting process with dramatic environmental and human consequences requires a synthesis of perspectives and models from diverse areas of psychology to adequately communicate and explain how a more psychological framing of the human dimensions of global envir…
The mining sector and indigenous tourism development in Weipa, Queensland
Joseph Reser
Uses, Meanings, and Understandings of Values in the Environmental and Protected Area Arena
The importance of language in influencing and often determining management, planning, and policy decisions in the environmental arena is well documented. Equally well established is the importance of language in research, both with respect to the assumptive worlds of theory, discussion, and debate, and with respect to operational definitions and methodologies. This research addresses and examines meanings and understandings of a key expression an…
Sense-making in the wake of September 11th
The objective of this research was to document and explore British university students' immediate understanding of the events of September 11th. A network analysis of lay causal perceptions procedure was employed to capture the social perceptions and sense-making of respondents at a time when they and the world struggled to impose meaning and coherence on the events. The study also examined the possible effects of 'belief in a just world' and 'ri…
The psychology of work and unemployment in Australia today
This paper reviews recent literature on psychological aspects of work, unemployment, and underemployment in Australia at the beginning of the 21st century. It examines different notions of “work”, including paid employment and unpaid work (e.g., emotional work, volunteer work). It draws attention to the fact that, in our society, most of the important emotional work is carried out by women (caring for children, disabled relatives, and elderly dep…
Suicide
This paper presents a review of literature, research, and practice relating to suicide and intentional self-injury. It incorporates both an international perspective and a particular focus on Australia. The paper reviews the epidemiological knowledge base, noting its complexity and the ways in which risk factors may vary with the population or subpopulation being studied. While much of the recent focus on suicide has been shaped by the increase i…
Racism and prejudice
In view of the rise of racist rhetoric in Australian public life in recent years, this paper reviews psychological research on racism and prejudice as they are expressed at every level of society from government policy to the intrapersonal sphere. It draws on evidence arising from social, developmental, clinical, and community psychology. The mental health system is used as an exemplar to analyse the operation of institutionalised racism, and som…
Contested representations of psychology and science
The essay by Butler (1998) is timely and thought-provoking. While many are at least conversant with the challenges and critiques of Danziger (1990), Gergen (1985, 1994), Sampson (1993, 1994), Shotter (1993), John (1986, 1994), and others with respect to the at-times studiously unreflective character of psychology, there has been a tendency to let the present swing of the pendulum towards a more conservative orthodoxy and a heavily biological “bio…
The Cultural Context of Aboriginal Suicide
Australian aboriginal suicide deaths in custody
This paper assesses whether a number of the reported1 Aboriginal suicide deaths in custody currently being investigated by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in Australia constitute a "suicide cluster." An examination is made of all reported Aboriginal suicide deaths in custody in Australia from 1980 through 1988, with consideration given to geographic and temporal proximity, as well as to similarities in age, sex, method, inv…
Cultural Relativity or Cultural Bias
Australian Aboriginal Man's Inhumanity to Man
Psychology's contributions to understanding and addressing global climate change
Global climate change poses one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in this century. This article, which introduces the American Psychologist special issue on global climate change, follows from the report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change. In this article, we place psychological dimensions of climate change within the broader context of human dimensions of cl…
Adapting to and coping with the threat and impacts of climate change
This article addresses the nature and challenge of adaptation in the context of global climate change. The complexity of "climate change" as threat, environmental stressor, risk domain, and impacting process with dramatic environmental and human consequences requires a synthesis of perspectives and models from diverse areas of psychology to adequately communicate and explain how a more psychological framing of the human dimensions of global envir…
Preaching to different choirs
Encountering climate change
Individuals' direct exposure to and experience of climate change are arguably integral aspects of their risk perceptions, understandings, and engagement with the issue. Recent research investigating these experiences has thrown into sharp relief some fundamental considerations with respect to public risk perceptions and responses, in particular the extent to which such perceived encounters might reflect a priori beliefs and motivated reasoning. F…
Audience segmentation and climate change communication
Engaging the public about mitigating or adapting to climate change threats poses significant challenges for scientists, policy makers, and others responsible for developing communication strategies. In response to these challenges, interest is growing in audience segmentation as a possible strategy to develop more effective communications that are tailored and targeted to subgroups of the public who share similar values, beliefs, behaviors, and/o…
What time to adapt? The role of discretionary time in sustaining the climate change value–action gap
Seeing red’ in national parks
The psychology of work and unemployment in Australia today
This paper reviews recent literature on psychological aspects of work, unemployment, and underemployment in Australia at the beginning of the 21st century. It examines different notions of “work”, including paid employment and unpaid work (e.g., emotional work, volunteer work). It draws attention to the fact that, in our society, most of the important emotional work is carried out by women (caring for children, disabled relatives, and elderly dep…
Racism and prejudice
In view of the rise of racist rhetoric in Australian public life in recent years, this paper reviews psychological research on racism and prejudice as they are expressed at every level of society from government policy to the intrapersonal sphere. It draws on evidence arising from social, developmental, clinical, and community psychology. The mental health system is used as an exemplar to analyse the operation of institutionalised racism, and som…
The mining sector and indigenous tourism development in Weipa, Queensland
Suicide
This paper presents a review of literature, research, and practice relating to suicide and intentional self-injury. It incorporates both an international perspective and a particular focus on Australia. The paper reviews the epidemiological knowledge base, noting its complexity and the ways in which risk factors may vary with the population or subpopulation being studied. While much of the recent focus on suicide has been shaped by the increase i…
The nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of climate change
Following a previous 2014 review of perceived personal experience of climate change, the authors review relevant research published or reported between January 2014 and mid‐year 2019. The review findings suggest that the nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of natural environment changes, conditions, and events deemed to be likely consequences of global climate change have been problematically conceptualized, resea…
Sense-making in the wake of September 11th
The objective of this research was to document and explore British university students' immediate understanding of the events of September 11th. A network analysis of lay causal perceptions procedure was employed to capture the social perceptions and sense-making of respondents at a time when they and the world struggled to impose meaning and coherence on the events. The study also examined the possible effects of 'belief in a just world' and 'ri…
Australian aboriginal suicide deaths in custody
This paper assesses whether a number of the reported1 Aboriginal suicide deaths in custody currently being investigated by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in Australia constitute a "suicide cluster." An examination is made of all reported Aboriginal suicide deaths in custody in Australia from 1980 through 1988, with consideration given to geographic and temporal proximity, as well as to similarities in age, sex, method, inv…
Australian Aboriginal Man's Inhumanity to Man
We’re the same as the Inuit
Uses, Meanings, and Understandings of Values in the Environmental and Protected Area Arena
The importance of language in influencing and often determining management, planning, and policy decisions in the environmental arena is well documented. Equally well established is the importance of language in research, both with respect to the assumptive worlds of theory, discussion, and debate, and with respect to operational definitions and methodologies. This research addresses and examines meanings and understandings of a key expression an…
Contested representations of psychology and science
The essay by Butler (1998) is timely and thought-provoking. While many are at least conversant with the challenges and critiques of Danziger (1990), Gergen (1985, 1994), Sampson (1993, 1994), Shotter (1993), John (1986, 1994), and others with respect to the at-times studiously unreflective character of psychology, there has been a tendency to let the present swing of the pendulum towards a more conservative orthodoxy and a heavily biological “bio…
Cultural Relativity or Cultural Bias
Australian Aboriginal Man's Inhumanity to Man
Cultural Relativity or Cultural Bias
Australian aboriginal suicide deaths in custody
This paper assesses whether a number of the reported1 Aboriginal suicide deaths in custody currently being investigated by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in Australia constitute a "suicide cluster." An examination is made of all reported Aboriginal suicide deaths in custody in Australia from 1980 through 1988, with consideration given to geographic and temporal proximity, as well as to similarities in age, sex, method, inv…
The Cultural Context of Aboriginal Suicide
Racism and prejudice
In view of the rise of racist rhetoric in Australian public life in recent years, this paper reviews psychological research on racism and prejudice as they are expressed at every level of society from government policy to the intrapersonal sphere. It draws on evidence arising from social, developmental, clinical, and community psychology. The mental health system is used as an exemplar to analyse the operation of institutionalised racism, and som…
Contested representations of psychology and science
The essay by Butler (1998) is timely and thought-provoking. While many are at least conversant with the challenges and critiques of Danziger (1990), Gergen (1985, 1994), Sampson (1993, 1994), Shotter (1993), John (1986, 1994), and others with respect to the at-times studiously unreflective character of psychology, there has been a tendency to let the present swing of the pendulum towards a more conservative orthodoxy and a heavily biological “bio…
Suicide
This paper presents a review of literature, research, and practice relating to suicide and intentional self-injury. It incorporates both an international perspective and a particular focus on Australia. The paper reviews the epidemiological knowledge base, noting its complexity and the ways in which risk factors may vary with the population or subpopulation being studied. While much of the recent focus on suicide has been shaped by the increase i…
The psychology of work and unemployment in Australia today
This paper reviews recent literature on psychological aspects of work, unemployment, and underemployment in Australia at the beginning of the 21st century. It examines different notions of “work”, including paid employment and unpaid work (e.g., emotional work, volunteer work). It draws attention to the fact that, in our society, most of the important emotional work is carried out by women (caring for children, disabled relatives, and elderly dep…
Sense-making in the wake of September 11th
The objective of this research was to document and explore British university students' immediate understanding of the events of September 11th. A network analysis of lay causal perceptions procedure was employed to capture the social perceptions and sense-making of respondents at a time when they and the world struggled to impose meaning and coherence on the events. The study also examined the possible effects of 'belief in a just world' and 'ri…
Uses, Meanings, and Understandings of Values in the Environmental and Protected Area Arena
The importance of language in influencing and often determining management, planning, and policy decisions in the environmental arena is well documented. Equally well established is the importance of language in research, both with respect to the assumptive worlds of theory, discussion, and debate, and with respect to operational definitions and methodologies. This research addresses and examines meanings and understandings of a key expression an…
Joseph Reser
The mining sector and indigenous tourism development in Weipa, Queensland
Psychology's contributions to understanding and addressing global climate change
Global climate change poses one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in this century. This article, which introduces the American Psychologist special issue on global climate change, follows from the report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change. In this article, we place psychological dimensions of climate change within the broader context of human dimensions of cl…
Adapting to and coping with the threat and impacts of climate change
This article addresses the nature and challenge of adaptation in the context of global climate change. The complexity of "climate change" as threat, environmental stressor, risk domain, and impacting process with dramatic environmental and human consequences requires a synthesis of perspectives and models from diverse areas of psychology to adequately communicate and explain how a more psychological framing of the human dimensions of global envir…
Ecopsychology in the Antipodes
Encountering climate change
Individuals' direct exposure to and experience of climate change are arguably integral aspects of their risk perceptions, understandings, and engagement with the issue. Recent research investigating these experiences has thrown into sharp relief some fundamental considerations with respect to public risk perceptions and responses, in particular the extent to which such perceived encounters might reflect a priori beliefs and motivated reasoning. F…
Audience segmentation and climate change communication
Engaging the public about mitigating or adapting to climate change threats poses significant challenges for scientists, policy makers, and others responsible for developing communication strategies. In response to these challenges, interest is growing in audience segmentation as a possible strategy to develop more effective communications that are tailored and targeted to subgroups of the public who share similar values, beliefs, behaviors, and/o…
Preaching to different choirs
What time to adapt? The role of discretionary time in sustaining the climate change value–action gap
Seeing red’ in national parks
We’re the same as the Inuit
The role of climate change risk perception, response efficacy, and psychological adaptation in pro-environmental behavior
The nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of climate change
Following a previous 2014 review of perceived personal experience of climate change, the authors review relevant research published or reported between January 2014 and mid‐year 2019. The review findings suggest that the nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of natural environment changes, conditions, and events deemed to be likely consequences of global climate change have been problematically conceptualized, resea…
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Climate change (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Perception (7 works)