Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Lindsay McCunn
Lindsay McCunn is an environmental/architectural psychologist. She received her PhD from the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada in 2016 and was a sessional instructor in the Department of Psychology at UVic during graduate school before becoming an Assistant Professor of psychology in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA in 2015. In 2017 she became a Professor of psychology at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, BC.
Selected Publications
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McCunn, L. J., Kim, A., & Lew, J. (2017). Office Workers’ Reactions to a Lighting Retrofit: Exploring Perceptions of Productivity, Controllability, and Affective Organizational Commitment. Journal of Energy Research and Social Science, 37, 154-164. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.02.002
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McCunn, L. J. & Gifford, R. (2017). Spatial Navigation and Place Imageability in Sense of Place. Cities, 74, 208-218. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.12.006
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Kim, A., McCunn, L. J., & Lew, J. (2017). Successful facility change management practices for retrofit projects: A case study in lighting. Journal of Management in Engineering, 33, 1-8. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943- 5479.0000519#sthash.xTUgbXYc.dpuf
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McCunn, L. J. (2017). Surveying a special population: Understanding accessible design in the subsidized housing sector. In SAGE Research Methods Cases: Health. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526409225
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​McCunn, L. J. (2017). Surveying teachers’ responses to library design: Lessons from the learning commons model. In SAGE Research Methods Cases: Education. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526402677