Selected Publications
Lutz, A. E., Schmitt, M. T., Mackay, C. M. L., & Wright, J. D. (2025). Experimentally elevating environmental cognitive alternatives: Effects on activist identification, willingness to act, and opposition to new fossil fuel projects. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101, 102516.
Wright, J. D., Schmitt, M. T., & Mackay, C. M. L. (2022). Access to environmental cognitive alternatives predicts pro-environmental activist behavior. Environment and Behaviour, 54(3), 1-34.
Girme, Y. U., Sibley, C. G., Hadden, B. W., Schmitt, M. T., & Hunger, J. M. (2022). Unsupported and Stigmatized? The Association Between Relationship Status and Well-Being Is Mediated by Social Support and Social Discrimination. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(2), 425鈥�435.
*Mackay, C. M. L., Schmitt, M. T., Lutz, A. E., & Mendel, J. (2021). Recent Developments in the Social Identity Approach to the Psychology of Climate Change. Current Opinion in Psychology, 42, 95-101.
*Mackay, C. M. L., Cristoffanini, F., Neufeld, S. D., Wright, J. D., Ogawa, H., Schmitt, M. T. (2021). Connection to Nature and Environmental Activism: Politicized Environmental Identity Mediates a Relationship Between Identification with Nature and Observed Environmental Activist Behaviour. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2, 100009.
*Wright, J. D., Climenhage, L. J., Schmitt, M. T., & Branscombe, N. R. (2020). Perceptual harmony in judgments of group prototypicality and intragroup respect. PLOS ONE, 15(12), e0243821.
Schmitt, M. T., Neufeld, S.D., Fryberg, S.A., Adams, G., Viljoen, J.L., Patrick, L., Atleo, C.G., & Fabian, S. (2021). 鈥淚ndigenous鈥� Nature Connection? A Response to Kurth, Narvaez, Kohn, and Bae (2020). Ecopsychology, 13, 64-67.
*Wright, J. D., Schmitt, M. T., Mackay, C. M. L., & Neufeld, S. D. (2020). Imagining a sustainable world: Measuring cognitive alternatives to the environmental status quo. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 72, 101523.
Bourguignon, D., Teixeira, C. P., Koc, Y., Outten, H. R., Faniko, K., & Schmitt, M. T. (2020). On the protective role of identification with a stigmatized identity: Promoting engagement and discouraging disengagement coping strategies. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 1125鈥�1142.
Schmitt, M. T., Neufeld, S. D., Mackay, C. M. L., & Dys-Steenbergen, O. (2020). The perils of explaining climate inaction in terms of psychological barriers. Journal of Social Issues, 76, 123-135.
Mackay, C. M. L., & Schmitt, M. T. (2019). Do people who feel connected to nature do more to protect it? A meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 65, 101323.
*Neufeld, S. D., & Schmitt, M. T. (2019). Preferences for Different Representations of Colonial History in a Canadian Urban Indigenous Community. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(2), 1065鈥�1088.
Schmitt, M. T., Mackay, C. M. L., Droogendyk, L. M., & Payne, D. (2019). What predicts environmental activism? The roles of identification with nature and politicized environmental identity. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 61, 20鈥�29.
*Neufeld, S. D. & Schmitt, M. T. (2019). Solidarity not homogeneity: Constructing a superordinate Aboriginal identity that protects subgroup identities. Political Psychology, 40, 599-616.
Schmitt, M. T., Aknin, L. B., & Axsen, J., & Shwom, R.L. (2018). Unpacking the relationships between pro-environmental behavior, life satisfaction, and perceived ecological threat. Ecological Economics, 143, 130-140.
Outten, H. R., Lee, T., Costa-Lopes, R., Schmitt, M. T., & Vala, J. (2018). Majority group members鈥� negative reactions to future demographic shifts depend on the perceived legitimacy of their status: Findings from the United States and Portugal. Frontiers Psychology, 9.
Schmitt, M. T., Aknin, L. B., & Axsen, J., & Shwom, R. L. (2018). Unpacking the relationships between pro-environmental behavior, life satisfaction, and perceived ecological threat. Ecological Economics, 143, 130-140.
Schmitt, M. T., Branscombe, N. R., Postmes, T., & Garcia, A. (2014). The consequences of perceived discrimination for psychological well-being: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 140(4), 921鈥�948.
Outten, H. R., Miller, D. Schmitt, M. T., & Garcia, A. (2012). Feeling Threatened about the Future: Whites鈥� Emotional Reactions to Anticipated Ethnic Demographic Changes. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, 38, 14-25.
Schmitt, M. T., Davies, K., Hung, M., & Wright, S. C. (2010). Identity moderates the effects of Christmas displays on mood, self-esteem, and inclusion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(6), 1017鈥�1022.