Kaitlin T. Raimi

Kaitlin Raimi is an associate professor of public policy at the Ford School. As a social/environmental psychologist, her interests center on how individuals can promote or prevent sustainable behaviors and policies. She has three broad areas of research: (1) how people compare their own beliefs and behaviors to others, (2) how adopting one pro-environmental behavior affects later action, and (3) how climate change communication affects people’s understanding, behaviors, and support for climate policies and technologies.

Learn more on Raimi's personal website.

Educational background

• Post-doctoral fellowship, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy & Environment
• MA and PhD in social psychology, Duke University
• BA in psychology, Tufts University

Professional affiliations

Fellow: American Psychological Association; Member: Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Association for Psychological Science, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, International Association of Applied Psychology

Recent publications

• Raimi, K. T., Wolske, K. S., Hart, P. S., & Choi, S. (2024). Exploring public perceptions of carbon capture and utilization in the U.S. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 50, 314-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2024.08.003
• Burgess, M. G., Van Boven, L., Wagner, G., Wong-Parodi, G., Baker, K., Boykoff, M., Converse, B. A., Dilling, L., Gilligan, J. M., Inbar, Y., Markowitz, E., Moyer, J. D.,  Newton, P., Raimi, K. T., Trisha Shrum, T., & Vandenbergh, M. P. (2024). Supply, demand, and polarization challenges facing U.S. climate policies. Nature Climate Change, 14, 134-142. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01906-y
• Raimi, K. T., Sarge, M. A., Geiger, N., Gillis, A., & Lee Cunningham, J. (2024). Effects of communicating the rise of climate migration on public perceptions of climate change and migration. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 93, 102210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102210
• Bellamy, R., & Raimi, K. T. (2023). Communicating carbon removal. Frontiers in Climate, 5, 1205388. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2023.1205388
• Gillis, A., Geiger, N., Raimi, K. T., Lee Cunningham, J., & Sarge, M. A. (2023). Awareness of climate change-induced immigration to the United States has mixed influences on public support for climate change and migrants. Climatic Change, 176, 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03519-y
• Truelove, H. B., Raimi, K. T., & Carrico, A. R. (2022). Curbing single-use plastic with behaviour change interventions. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3, 722-723. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00356-y
• Hart, P. S., Campbell-Arvai, V., Wolske, K. S., & Raimi, K. T. (2022). Moral hazard or not? The effects of learning about carbon dioxide removal on perceptions of climate mitigation in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 89, 102656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102656
• Lyons, B. A., Farhart, C. E., Hall, M. P., Kotcher, J., Levendusky, M., Miller, J. M., Nyhan, B., Raimi, K. T., Reifler, J., Saunders, K. L., Skytte, R. & Zhao, X. (2022). Self-affirmation and identity-driven political behavior: An oversold solution? Journal of Experimental Political Science, 9, 225-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2020.46
  – Winner of the 2022 Rebecca Morton Best Article Award, Journal of Experimental Political Science
• Raimi, K. T. (2021). How to encourage pro-environmental behaviors without crowding out public support for climate policies. Behavioral Science and Policy, 7, 101-108.
• Jebari, J, Taiwo, O. O., Andrews, T. M., Aquila,V., Beckage, B., Belaia, M., Clifford, M., Fuhrman, J., Keller, D. P., Mach, K. J., Morrow, D. R., Raimi K. T., Visioni, D., Nicholson, S., & Trisos, C. H. (2021). From moral hazard to risk-response feedback. Climate Risk Management, 33, 100324. doi: 10.1016/j.crm.2021.100324
• Raimi, K. T. (2021). Public perceptions of geoengineering. Current Opinion in Psychology, 42, 66-70. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.03.012
• 12.    Gillis, A.*, Vandenbergh, M. V., Raimi, K. T., Maki, A.*, & Wallston, K. (2021). Convincing conservatives: Private sector action can bolster support for climate change mitigation in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 73, 101947. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.101947 
• Bellamy, R., & Raimi, K. T. (2023). Communicating carbon removal. Frontiers in Climate, 5, 1205388. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1205388.
• Gillis, A., Geiger, N., Raimi, K. T., Lee Cunningham, J., & Sarge, M. A. (2023). Awareness of climate change-induced immigration to the United States has mixed influences on public support for climate change and migrants. Climatic Change, 176, 48. doi: 10.1007/s10584-023-03519-y.
• Truelove, H. B., Raimi, K. T., & Carrico, A. R. (2022). Curbing single-use plastic with behaviour change interventions. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3, 722-723. doi: 10.1038/s43017-022-00356-y.
• Hart, P. S., Campbell-Arvai, V., Wolske, K. S., & Raimi, K. T. (2022). Moral hazard or not? The effects of learning about carbon dioxide removal on perceptions of climate mitigation in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 89, 102656. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2022.102656.
• Raimi, K. T. (in press). How to encourage pro-environmental behaviors without crowding out public support for climate policies. Behavioral Science and Policy.
• Raimi, K. T. (2021). Public perceptions of geoengineering. Current Opinion in Psychology, 42, 66-70. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.03.012
• Raimi, K. T., Wolske, K. W., Hart, P. S. & Campbell-Arvai, V. (2020). The Aversion to Tampering with Nature Scale (ATN): Individual differences in (dis)comfort with altering the natural world. Risk Analysis, 40, 638-656. doi: 10.1111/risa.13414