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Cameron Brick
Born1982
Palo Alto, California, US
OccupationSocial psychologist
EmployerUniversity of Amsterdam
Websitewww.cameronbrick.com

Cameron Brick (born 1982[1]) is a social and environmental psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam.[2] His research focuses on climate change, sustainability, protest, and public communication of science. He has been quoted as an independent expert in outlets including The Guardian, de Volkskrant, Het Parool, and The Washington Post.[3][4][1][5]

Career

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Brick was a student of David Sherman (psychologist) and received a PhD in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015.[2] He was Visiting Assistant Professor at Hamilton College from 2015–17, and then Research Associate at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication[6] at the University of Cambridge under David Spiegelhalter, and Research By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge[7], both 2017-2019. He joined the University of Amsterdam in 2020 as Assistant Professor of Social Psychology.[2] He was also Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Inland Norway from 2023-24.

Research and public engagement

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Brick's research focuses on concrete measures of environmental impact—such as carbon footprints and household water use—rather than relying only on surveys or interviews of what people say they do (or intend to do). He has shown that stated intentions often diverge from actual impact,[3] and co-authored a commentary calling for an "impact-focused" environmental psychology that prioritizes high-impact areas such as diet, travel, and housing.[8]

He has also conducted empirical studies on the effects of disruptive climate protests such as Extinction Rebellion, work that has been covered in Dutch media.[4] His earlier work on personality and environmental concern was profiled in The Washington Post.[5]

At Cambridge's Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication[6] he studied risk and evidence communication for public and policy audiences,[6] and later he led a citizen-science project on household microplastic emissions.[9]

Brick participates in large cross-national collaborations using preregistered and open-science methods, including surveys of public trust in science and climate attitudes across more than 60 countries published in Nature Human Behaviour and related journals.[10]

Honors

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Funding

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Principal Investigator

Co-Investigator

  • Horizon Europe MOSAIC: Motivations and Land-Use (2023–27), a project on sustainable land-use decision-making across Europe.[16]
  • NWO MIWATEX project on chemical recycling of mixed textile waste.[17]

Selected publications

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  • Ford, H. L., Brick, C., Blaufuss, K., & Dekens, P. (2019). Women from some under-represented minorities are given too few talks at the world's largest Earth-science conference. Nature, 576(7785), 32–35. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03759-0.
  • Nielsen, K. S., Cologna, V., Bauer, J. M., Berger, S., Brick, C. et al. (2024). Realizing the full potential of behavioral science for climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change, 14(4), 322–330. doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01951-1.
  • Dablander, F., Lange, F., Brick, C. & Aron, A. (2025). Expressing intentions is not climate action. PNAS, 122(28), e2512457122. doi:10.1073/pnas.2512457122.
  • Cologna, V., Mede, N. G., Berger, S., Brick, C. et al. (2025). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02090-5.

Roles

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  • Associate Editor, Global Environmental Psychology (Transparency, Open Science, Registered Reports)[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b Stoop, José (9 December 2023). "De effectiefste klimaatmaatregelen: 'Alles helpt, dus een dag per week geen vlees draagt al bij'" [The most effective climate measures: 'Everything helps, so skipping meat one day per week already contributes']. Het Parool (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 August 2025. Palo Alto (Californië, VS), 1982.
  2. ^ a b c "Dr C. (Cameron) Brick". University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 1 August 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  3. ^ a b Davis, Nicola; Niranjan, Ajit (10 March 2024). "High shower pressure can help people save water, study suggests". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 March 2024. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  4. ^ a b Keulemans, Maarten (10 March 2023). "Soep gooien, snelwegen blokkeren: leiden zulke acties tot meer steun voor de zaak? Dit zegt de wetenschap" [Throwing soup, blocking highways: do such actions lead to more support? This is what the science says]. de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  5. ^ a b Nir, Sarah (27 January 2015). "Are liberals more environmental? The personality differences that explain why". The Washington Post. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  6. ^ a b c "Former research associates, Winton Centre". Winton Centre. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 1 July 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  7. ^ "By-Fellows, Churchill College". Greater Good Magazine. University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on 11 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  8. ^ Nielsen, Kristian S.; Cologna, Viktoria; Lange, Florian; Brick, Cameron; Stern, Paul C. (2021). "The case for impact-focused environmental psychology". Journal of Environmental Psychology. 74 101559. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101559. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  9. ^ Brick, Cameron; Bosshard, Anna; Boven, Berend; Hijink, Joris; Praetorius, Andreas; Jacobs, Laurens (2025). "Psychological outcomes from a citizen science study on microplastics from household clothes washing". Environmental Science: Advances. 4 (7): 1079–1093. doi:10.1039/D5VA00037H. PMC 12082389. PMID 40385601. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  10. ^ Cologna, V.; Mede, N. G.; Berger, S.; Brick, C. (2025). "Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries". Nature Human Behaviour. 9 (4): 713–730. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-02090-5. PMC 7617525. PMID 39833424.
  11. ^ "APS Rising Stars". Association for Psychological Science. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  12. ^ "Division 34 Early Career Achievement Award". Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology. American Psychological Association. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  13. ^ "Dr. Cameron Named SESP Fellow". Empathy and Moral Psychology Lab (Penn State). 30 July 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  14. ^ "State of affairs new conditions starter grants". Leiden University staff announcement. 16 July 2024. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  15. ^ "Granted projects – Open Competition SSH-XS". NWO. 2023. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  16. ^ "MOSAIC is an EU-funded project working to understand and influence how land across Europe is managed". MOSAIC project website. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  17. ^ "Circularity for Mixed cotton/polyester WAste TEXtiles by upcycling to virgin monomer building blocks (MIWATEX)". NWO. 2022. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  18. ^ "Associate Editors". Global Environmental Psychology. Archived from the original on 1 January 2024. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
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