Visiting Assistant Professor
Environmental psychology

cmanning@macalester.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Manning's research and teaching explore the cognitive, social and situational factors that influence people’s behavioral and lifestyle choices and how these choices positively or negatively impact natural systems.  She is particularly interested in people’s cognitive and emotional response to information about climate change.

• BSc in Human Factors Engineering (Engineering Psychology), Tufts Univ. School of Engineering, 1989
• PhD in Psychology, University of Minnesota, 2000

Student Independent Research Projects

• Closer and Warmer: Implicit Attitudes toward Climate Change and Psychological Distance by Kelly Cargos '13
• Looking for the Big Picture? The Effect of Temporal Distance Priming on Global vs. Local Eye Movements by Paul Rebman '14
• The Abstract Benefits and Concrete Costs of Local Wind Energy Development by Natalie Camplair '13