Belinda Xie

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Community Presentations

Keynote Speaker at "Circular Economy Resource Hack" (2021), by UNSW Founders Program and International Universities Climate Alliance. Details here.

Moderator and Speaker at "UNSW Climate Reality Leaders present: The Climate Crisis & its Solutions" (2020). Details here.

Panel Member at "Women Leading Climate Action: Fighting Fake News" (2020), by ActionAid and Women's Agenda. Details here and read the writeup on Women's Agenda here.

Moderator for "Green Jobs Now! What are they and where are they?" webinar (2020), by UNSW Environment Collective, UNSW Climate Change Network, and UNSW Sustainability. Details here and watch the recording here.

Guest Speaker at "Lunchtime Webinar: Inspiring Community Actions on Climate Change" (2020), by Waverley Council, NSW. Details here.

Guest Speaker at Climate Solutions NSW Meeting - "The Psychology of Climate Change Beliefs and Behaviour" (2020). See talk on YouTube here.

Panel Member at "Climate Change: Planting the Seeds of Hope" (2019) at the Footprints EcoFestival, by Inner West Council, NSW. Details here.

Guest Scientist on Arludo YouTube Live shows (2019). Watch one here.

Media

Xie, B., Newell, B., & Moss, J. (2021) COVID-19 vs. Climate: Australia's Scorecard. International Universities Climate Alliance. Available at: https://www.universitiesforclimate.org/covid-19-vs-climate-australias-scorecard/.

Xie, B., & Newell, B. (2019) Why attending a climate strike can change minds (most importantly your own). The Conversation. Available at: https://theconversation.com/why-attending-a-climate-strike-can-change-minds-most-importantly-your-own-122862. Also available in Danish at: https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/klimastrejke-kan-flytte-holdninger-mest-af-alt-din-egen.

Filatoff, N. (2020, February 10). The psychology of climate-change denial – we’re all on the spectrum. Retrieved from pv magazine.

Tang, C. (2020, February 7) Climate change denialism is something we all suffer from. Retrieved from UNSW Newsroom.

Yun, J. (2020, January 24). This is the country that doubts climate science the most. Retrieved from Yahoo Finance.

Williams, L. (2020, January 17). The Impact Of Climate Denialism Can't Be Ignored. Retrieved from Gizmodo.

Interviewed for Manuela Tugliani, 16-years-old, in her award-winning entry to Giornalisti Nell'erba's national competition. Retrieved from Giornalisti Nell'erba.

Academic Publications

Connor Desai, S., Xie, B., & Hayes, B. K., (2022). Getting to the source of the illusion of consensus Cognition, 1050223, 1-18. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105023. Click to view paper.

Xie, B., Hayes, B. K., & Navarro, D. (2020). Adding types, but not tokens, affects property induction. Cognitive Science, 44, e12895. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12895. Click to view paper or preprint.

Xie, B., Brewer, M. B., Hayes, B. K., McDonald, R. I., & Newell, B. R. (2019). Predicting climate change risk perception and willingness to act. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 65, 101331. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101331. Click to view paper or preprint.

Xie, B., Hurlstone, M. J., & Walker, I. (2018). Correct me if I'm wrong: Groups outperform individuals in the Climate Stabilisation Task. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(2274). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02274. Paper freely available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02274.

Xie, B., Hayes, B. K., & Navarro, D. (2018). Adding types, but not tokens, affects the breadth of property induction. In T. T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Paper freely available at: https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cogsci18_proceedings.pdf.