Dr. Leaf Van Boven

Leaf Van Boven, a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, directs the Environment, Decision, Judgment, and Identity lab and is Co-Director of the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change. He earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Cornell University. He is a distinguished fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Professor Van Boven was Associate Editor at the Journal for Personality and Social Psychology and the Psychological Science. Van Boven’s research integrates social, environmental, and political psychology. He integrates social, environmental, and political psychology to investigate the processes influencing people’s everyday lives, using laboratory experiments, national surveys, and field studies. Professor Van Boven has published more than 100 papers and has been continuously funded by the National Science Foundation.