Adam Pearson is a professor of psychological science at Pomona College and a member of the graduate faculty at Claremont Graduate University. He received a B.S. in Biology from Cornell University and Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University. He is an elected fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and past Associate Editor of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. His work has been featured in outlets such as the LA Times, NPR, TIME Magazine, Bloomberg, the Boston Globe, Grist, the Hill, FiveThirtyEight, and The Wall Street Journal. He has consulted with a variety of local and state governments, nonprofits, and professional societies on communication and public engagement efforts. [CV]

Corinne Tsai (PO ’20) is a lab alum and senior program associate with the Waverley Street Foundation. Her research with the SCI Lab has explored social psychological foundations of climate justice and coalition-building, as well as how equity and identity-based messaging impact public support for climate policies. Her co-authored paper, “Building Diverse Climate Coalitions,” won the 2023 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from APA Division 9.

Anandita Sabherwal, Ph.D., received her doctorate from the London School of Economics and is a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and Boston College. Her collaborations with the SCI lab have explored how emotions and normative messaging shape cognition, advocacy, and collective action around climate change, and how considering actions or inactions of governments, businesses, and other powerful actors impact climate motivation, including compensatory behaviors.

Matt Ballew, Ph.D. (CGU ’18) is a SCI Lab alum and an assistant professor at Pierce College in Washington. Before joining the faculty at Pierce, he was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Matt’s research interests center around understanding people’s connection to groups, communities, and the natural world. Recent collaborations, synthesizing over a decade of nationally representative public opinion data, have investigated how race, ethnicity, and social class shape political polarization around climate change in the U.S.