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

diana mutz宾夕法尼亚大学社会科学分时实验（TESS）是由2001年美国国家科学基金会社会和行为科学基础设施基金支持的，旨在鼓励集体企业进行与政策相关的科学研究，并使科学界的个人研究议程受益。TESS采用了一种新的方法，将实验设计与大规模人口调查相结合。迄今为止，它已经为社会科学家提供了100多份同行评审的原创研究。TESS的范围对任何科学研究领域开放，只要这项研究涉及对知识的原创性贡献。在这个项目中，TESS将促进关于风险通报及其对备灾影响的研究；政府和个人的责任归属和感知响应；以及群体间的威胁和合作。利用这个现有的基础设施平台，TESS将激发国内最优秀的社会科学家对这些主题的研究，同时也为他们提供执行与国土安全相关的方法复杂研究所需的工具。该组织框架将允许从事与国土安全和灾难准备相关研究的研究人员收集高质量的数据，这些数据是根据研究人员的假设设计的，这些假设构成了数据收集的框架。更广泛地说，TESS将吸引其已建立并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..