SPEA - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Education
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
M.A. Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
B.S., University of Illinois, 2004

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), September 2011 to present
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, 2011 to present
• Adjunct Professor, Cognitive Science Program, 2011 to present
• Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, September 2011 to present
• Postdoctoral Fellow, The Earth Institute & Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED), Columbia University, 2009-2011

Awards, Honors & Certifications

• Grand Challenge Student Paper Award, NSF-AEESP, 2009
• Outstanding Teaching Award, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CMU), 2009
• Freie Universität fellowship, 2009
• Precourt energy efficiency travel fellowship, 2009
• Environmental Research and Education Foundation, 2005–2009
• Colin U. Miller and Mary Hay Miller Charitable Trust, 2007–2008
• Steinbrenner Seed funding, 2005
• Harold Allen Thomas Memorial, 2004–2005
• Women in Engineering, 2003–2004
• Lorella Jones Undergraduate Research, 2003

Professional Interests
Energy policy, energy efficiency and conservation, behavioral economics, social dilemmas, risk communication, and sustainable development

Current Projects
Her current work investigates effects of real-time energy feedback, how to use games for research and learning, and factors that motivate action in social dilemmas.

For more information on Professor Attari visit her website by clicking here.

Selected Publications
Full Vita

• Cook, J. E. and Attari, S. Z. (2012). Paying for What Was Free: Lessons from the New York Times Paywall. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 15(12), 1-6 .
• McNeeley, S. et al. (2012) Catalyzing frontiers in water-climate-society research: A view from early career scientists and junior faculty Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(4), 477-484
• Attari, S. Z., DeKay, M. L., Davidson, C. I., & Bruine de Bruin, W. (2011). Changing household behaviors to curb climate change: How hard can it be? Sustainability: The Journal of Record, 4(1), 9-11.
• Attari, S. Z., DeKay, M. L., Davidson, C. I., & Bruine de Bruin, W. (2010). "Perceptions of energy consumption and savings." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(37), 16054-16059. [Commentary of article: Dietz, T. (2010). "Narrowing the US energy efficiency gap." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(37), 16007-16008.]
• Attari, S. Z., Schoen, M., Davidson, C. I., DeKay, M. L., Bruine de Bruin, W., Dawes, R. M., & Small, M. J. (2009). "Preferences for change: Do individuals prefer voluntary actions, soft regulations, or hard regulations to decrease fossil fuel consumption?"  Ecological Economics, 68(6), 1701-1710.