SGER: DHS and NSF Collaboration: Time-Sharing Experiments on Disaster Risk Communication and Preparedness

SES- 0647660Diana Mutz 宾夕法尼亚大学社会科学分时实验 (TESS) 得到了 2001 年 NSF 社会和行为科学基础设施拨款的支持，旨在鼓励集体企业开展与政策相关的科学研究，并有利于科学界内的个人研究议程。 TESS 采用了一种将实验设计与大规模人口调查相结合的新方法。迄今为止，它已为社会科学家提供了 100 多项经过同行评审的原创研究。 TESS 的范围对任何科学研究领域开放，只要该研究涉及对知识的原创贡献。在该项目中，TESS 将促进风险沟通及其对备灾影响的研究；政府和个人的责任归属和感知的响应能力；以及群体间的威胁与合作。 利用这个现有的基础设施平台，TESS 将促进国内最优秀的社会科学家对这些主题的研究，同时还为他们提供执行与国土安全相关的方法论复杂研究所需的工具。该组织框架将使从事国土安全和备灾相关研究的研究人员能够收集高质量的数据，这些数据是根据调查人员假设框架设计的。 更广泛地说，TESS 将吸引其成熟且不断扩大的用户群体（来自政治学、心理学、经济学、社会学、公共政策、公共卫生、认知科学和传播研究）参与有关国土安全以及如何确保美国人未来安全的紧迫问题的研究。

SES- 0647660Diana MutzUniversity of Pennsylvania Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) supported by a 2001 NSF Social and Behavioral Sciences Infrastructure grant was organized to encourage the collective enterprise of producing policy-relevant scientific research, as well as to benefit individual research agendas within the scientific community. TESS uses a new methodology that combines experimental design with large-scale population surveys. To date, it has produced over 100 original peer-reviewed studies for social scientists. The scope of the TESS is open to any area of scientific research, as long as the study involved an original contribution to knowledge. In this project TESS will stimulate research on risk communication and its effects on disaster preparedness; government and individual attributions of responsibility and perceived responsiveness; and inter-group threat and cooperation. Using this existing infrastructure platform, TESS will stimulate research on these topics among the best social scientists in the country, while also providing them with the tools needed to execute methodologically sophisticated studies related to homeland security. The organizational framework will allow researchers with studies relevant to homeland security and disaster preparedness to collect high quality data designed with investigator hypotheses framing the data collection. More broadly, TESS will engage its well established and expanding constituency of users (from Political Science, Psychology, Economics, Social, Public Policy, Public Health, Cognitive Sciences and Communication Research) in research on pressing questions relating to homeland security and how to ensure the future safety of Americans..