Publications

Rikner Martinsson, A., Glatz, T., & Ojala, M. (2026). Understanding Late Adolescents’ Moral Responsibility for Climate Change: The Role of Social-Ecological Factors, Worry, and Distancing. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 109, 102879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102879 

Ojala, M., Palmo, S., & Nuojua, S. (2026). Trying to live sustainably in a not so sustainable society: Black-and-white thinking and dialectical thinking are important for climate-change engagement among late adolescents. Environmental Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2026.2727881

Gustafsson, K. M. (2025). Trusting climate science: The process of accepting what is true about the climate crisis and simultaneously creating social order. Nature and Culture, 20(3), 177-200. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2025.200301

Gustafsson, K. M. (2025). Is science to be trusted? How environmentally active youths related to science in social media. Public understanding of science, 34(1), 76-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625241249915

Jylhä, K., & Stanley, S., Ojala, M., & Clarke, E. (2023). Science denial: A narrative review and recommendations for future research and practice. European Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000487

 

The following article was published before the project started, and gives a brief introduction to parts of the theoretical stance about trust: 

Ojala, M. (2021). To trust or not to trust? Young people’s trust in climate change science and their climate change engagement. Children’s Geographies, 19(3), 284-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2020.1822516