Promoting Empathy and Collaborative Decision Making for Natural Resource Management using a Computer Mediated Scenario

为了促进有效的合作管理，至关重要的是要制定干预措施，促进共情，这是合作行为的前兆，并了解可能会阻止共情导致合作行动的背景因素。自然资源管理的协作办法有成功也有失败。后者往往是由于利益集团没有能力或不愿意在提供公共产品方面进行合作。合作有时需要演员放弃自私的行为，支持更亲社会的行为。因此，理解共情的作用以及如何促进共情成为成功的协作决策的必要组成部分。该研究小组使用多方法，多学科的方法，包括一个跨部门的公众调查，将用于测试观点采择和亲社会行为之间的关系模型，并确定关键的个人和背景预测因素以及资源管理背景下的观点采择和亲社会行为的障碍。此外，这些项目还测试了多个假设，即为什么使用计算机媒介通信的初步实验会导致利己主义行为，这是一个违反直觉的结果。最后，研究小组利用他们的理论和实验结果，开发和测试了一系列实验，使用计算机为媒介的情况下，模仿现实世界的协作管理决策。这项工作增强了对观点采择和亲社会行为之间因果关系的理解，确定了观点采择和亲社会行为的背景和个人障碍，并开发了可靠有效的工具和策略，以促进计算机介导的情况下的亲社会行为。因此，这项工作有助于现有的社会合作，亲环境行为和协作管理模式。此外，这项研究使观点采择和亲社会行动之间的多维关系可见，可测试，并最终工具。这项研究还通过使用交互式场景来教育多学科的学生，以促进通过复杂的决策场景的协作行为和合作，从而改善教学。

To promote effective collaborative management, it is critical to develop interventions that promote empathy, which is a precursor to cooperative behavior, and to understand the contextual factors that may prevent empathy from resulting in collaborative action. Collaborative approaches to natural resource management have had their share of success and failure. The latter is often driven by the inability or unwillingness of interest groups to collaborate over the provision of public goods. Collaboration sometimes require actors to forego selfish behaviors in favor of more prosocial behavior. Therefore, understanding the role of empathy and how to promote it becomes a necessary component of successful collaborative decision making. The research team uses a multi-method, multi-disciplinary approach that includes a cross-sectional public survey that will be used to test a model of the relationships between perspective taking and prosocial behavior and identify the key individual and contextual predictors and barriers to perspective taking and prosocial action in resource management contexts. Further, the projects tests multiple hypotheses about why preliminary experiments using computer-mediated communications resulted in egoistic behavior, a counterintuitive result. Finally, the research teams uses their theoretical and experimental results to develop and test a series of experiments using computer-mediated scenarios to mimic real-world collaborative management decisions. The work enhances understanding of the causal connections between perspective taking and prosocial action, identifies the contextual and individual barriers to perspective taking and prosocial behavior, and develops reliable and valid instruments and strategies to promote prosocial action within a computer mediated situation. As a result, the work contributes to existing models of social cooperation, proenvironmental behavior and collaborative management. Moreover, this research makes the multidimensional relationships between perspective taking and prosocial action visible, testable, and ultimately instrumental. This study also improves teaching by using interactive scenarios to educate students across multiple disciplines to promote collaborative behavior and cooperation through complex decision-making scenarios.