This study provides a baseline for longitudinal studies of public acceptance along the US
East Coast, where no utility-scale offshore wind farms have been developed yet. Using a …

Public understanding of home energy use is rife with biases and misunderstandings that can
stymie the adoption of efficient technologies and conservation practices. Studying how …

There is a fundamental and important question about human cognition that drives the re-
search projects in this dissertation: How do people cope with things outside of the realm of …