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About Reuven Sussman

Reuven Sussman conducts research on energy efficiency behavior change programs and organizes the annual conference on Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC). He has authored academic papers and book chapters on the psychology of climate change,...More

Reuven Sussman conducts research on energy efficiency behavior change programs and organizes the annual conference on Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC). He has authored academic papers and book chapters on the psychology of climate change, behavioral interventions to encourage energy efficeincy, and the psychological determinants of pro-environmental behavior. Prior to joinin the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) in 2016, Reuven was a behavior change consultant, university instructor, and researcher at the University of Victoria in Canada. He earned a doctor of science and a master of science in social and environmental psychology from the University of Victoria and a bachelor of science with honors in psychology from the University of Toronto. He currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Psychology and is Secretary of the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology of the American Psychological Association.
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American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
- Sr. Research Manager, Behavior & Human Dimensions of Energy Efficiency
- January 2017 to Present
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
- Research Manager, Behavior & Human Dimensions of Energy Efficiency
- January 2016 to January 2017

University of Victoria
- Doctor of Philosophy
- January 2010 to September 2015
• Social and Environmental Psychology • Visiting year at University of Alberta, studying Scientific Inference and Social Psychology • Dissertation Title: Paved with Good Environmental Intentions: Reconsidering the Theory of Planned Behaviour
University of Victoria
- Masters of Science
- September 2007 to December 2009
Environmental Psychology