Yale Blue Green: The Case for Sustainability Series featuring Alex Coppock & Matthew Ballew

Alex Coppock is associate professor (on term) of political science at Yale, where he specializes in political persuasion and research design. He is the author of Persuasion in Parallel, which shows that individuals who disagree on politics do, in fact, change their minds in response to information. His recent work in peer-reviewed journals presents meta-analyses of list experiments, campaign advertisement experiments, candidate choice experiments, and employment audit experiments.

Matthew Ballew is a research specialist at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and specializes in social and environmental psychology, and research methodology with a specific focus on survey design/methods. His research focuses on the personal, social, and cultural factors that shape people's responses to environmental issues, how environments affect people's health and well-being, and how communicators can leverage this knowledge to better connect with audiences and support opinion and behavior change.