Selected Publications
Wright, J. D., Schmitt, M. T., & Mackay, C. M. L. (2022). Access to environmental cognitive alternatives predicts pro-environmental activist behavior. Environment and Behaviour, 54(3), 1-34. 10.31234/osf.io/rk79q
Girme, Y.U., Sibley, C.G., Hadden, B.W., Schmitt, M.T., Hunger, J.M. (in press). Unsupported and Stigmatized? The Association between Relationship Status and Wellbeing Is Mediated by Social Support and Social Discrimination. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
*Mackay, C.M.L., Schmitt, M.T., Lutz, A.E., & Mendel, J. (2021). Recent Developments in the Social Identity Approach to the Psychology of Climate Change. Current Opinion in Psychology, 42, 95-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.04.009
*Mackay, C.M.L., Cristoffanini, F., Neufeld, S.D., Wright, J.D., Ogawa, H., Schmitt, M.T. (2021). Connection to Nature and Environmental Activism: Politicized Environmental Identity Mediates a Relationship Between Identification with Nature and Observed Environmental Activist Behaviour. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2, 100009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2021.100009
*Wright, J.D., Climenhage, L.J., Schmitt, M.T., & Branscombe, N.R. (2021). Perceptual Harmony in Judgments of Group Prototypicality and Intragroup Respect. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0243821. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243821
Schmitt, M.T., Neufeld, S.D., Fryberg, S.A., Adams, G., Viljoen, J.L., Patrick, L., Atleo, C.G., & Fabian, S. (2021). “Indigenous” Nature Connection? A Response to Kurth, Narvaez, Kohn, and Bae (2020). Ecopsychology, 13, 64-67. https://doi.org/10.1089/eco.2020.0066
*Wright, J.D., & Schmitt, M.T., Mackay, C.M.L., & Neufeld, S.D. (2020). Imagining a sustainable world: Measuring cognitive alternatives to the environmental status quo. Journal of Environmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101523
Bourguignon, D., Teixeira, C.P., Koc, Y., Outten, H.R., Faniko, K., & Schmitt, M.T. (2020). On the protective role of identification with a stigmatized identity: Promoting engagement and discouraging disengagement coping strategies. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 1125–1142. https://doi/10.1002/ejsp.2703
Schmitt, M.T., Neufeld, S.D., Mackay, C.M.L., & Dys-Steenbergen, O. (2020). The perils of explaining climate inaction in terms of psychological barriers. Journal of Social Issues, 76, 123-135. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12360
Mackay, C.M.L., & Schmitt, M.T. (2019). Do people who feel connected to nature do more to protect it? A meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
*Neufeld, S.D. & Schmitt, M.T. (2019). Preferences for different representations of colonial history in a Canadian urban Indigenous community. Journal of Social and Political Psychology.
Schmitt, M.T., Mackay, C.M.L., Droogendyk, L.M., & Payne, D. (2019). What predicts environmental activism? The roles of identification with nature and politicized environmental identity. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 61, 20-29.
*Neufeld, S.D. & Schmitt, M.T. (2019). Solidarity not homogeneity: Constructing a superordinate Aboriginal identity that protects subgroup identities. Political Psychology, 40, 599-616. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12530
Schmitt, M.T., Aknin, L.B., & Axsen, J., & Shwom, R.L. (2018). Unpacking the relationships between pro-environmental behavior, life satisfaction, and perceived ecological threat. Ecological Economics, 143, 130-140. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.07.007
Outten, H.R., Lee, T., Costa-Lopes, R., Schmitt, M.T., & Vala, J. (2018). Majority group members’ negative reactions to future demographic shifts depend on the perceived legitimacy of their status: Findings from the United States and Portugal. Frontiers Psychology, 9. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00079
Schmitt, M.T., Aknin, L.B., & Axsen, J., & Shwom, R.L. (2018). Unpacking the relationships between pro-environmental behavior, life satisfaction, and perceived ecological threat. Ecological Economics, 143, 130-140. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.07.007
Schmitt, M.T., Branscombe, N.R., Postmes, T., & Garcia, A. (2014). The Consequences of Perceived Discrimination for Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analytic Review. Psychological Bulletin, 140, 921-948. DOI: 10.1037/a0035754
Outten, H.R., Miller, D. Schmitt, M.T., & Garcia, A. (2012). Feeling Threatened about the Future: Whites’ Emotional Reactions to Anticipated Ethnic Demographic Changes. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, 38, 14-25.
Schmitt, M.T., Davies, K., Hung, M., & Wright, S.C. (2010). Identity moderates the effects of Christmas displays on mood, self-esteem, and inclusion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 1017–1022.