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Katherine Kortenkamp
Pronouns: She/Her
Associate Professor
Psychology
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Katherine Kortenkamp Pronouns: She/Her
Associate Professor
Psychology
Specialty area(s)
Psychology of Environmental Issues
Research Methods & Statistics
Current courses at UWL
Research Methods
Advanced Research Methods
Environmental Issues: Applied Psychology
Education
PhD - Psychology (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Undergraduate Degree - Psychology & Environmental Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Career
Research and publishing
My research has focused on scientific uncertainty and environmental risk perceptions, cooperation in resource dilemmas, environmental ethics, ethical decision making, and most recently outdoor recreation risk prevention. Below are some representative publications in these areas.
Kortenkamp, K. V., Moore, C. F., Miller, E. M., & Truell, K. V. (2021). DANGER! NO HIKING! Risky hiking decisions, framing of normative warning messages, and self-exempting beliefs. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 35, 100415.
Kortenkamp, K. V., Moore, C. F., Sheridan, D., & Ahrens, E. (2017). No hiking beyond this point! Hiking risk prevention recommendations in peer-reviewed literature. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 20, 67-76.
Kortenkamp, K. V., & Basten, B. (2015). Environmental science in the media: Effects of opposing viewpoints on risk and uncertainty perceptions. Science Communication, 37(3), 287-313.
Kortenkamp, K. V., & Moore, C. F. (2014). Ethics under uncertainty: The morality and appropriateness of utilitarianism when outcomes are uncertain. American Journal of Psychology, 127(3), 367-382.
Kortenkamp, K. V., & Moore, C. F. (2006). Time, uncertainty, and individual differences in decisions to cooperate in resource dilemmas. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 603-615.
Kortenkamp, K. V., & Moore, C. F. (2001). Ecocentrism and anthropocentrism: Moral reasoning about ecological commons dilemmas. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21, 261-272.
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