DDRIG in DRMS: Exploring the role of existential fear appeals and social attachments in natural hazard risk assessment and behavior

DRMS 中的 DDRIG：探索存在恐惧诉求和社会依恋在自然灾害风险评估和行为中的作用

• 批准号: 2214240
• 负责人: Gerard Kyle
• 金额: $ 1.76万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M AgriLife Research
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2214240&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDRIG; DRMS; Exploring; role; existential

Climate change is a worldwide threat for both the individual and humanity more broadly. According to the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we have to immediately and rapidly reach net zero carbon emissions to avoid many of the worst effects. Determining how to motivate the public to pursue carbon mitigation will therefore be essential for policy makers. This project studies the value, measured by willingness to pay, placed on climate change mitigation in an experimental setting. In particular this project focuses on the way information about climate change is presented to people (i.e., framing) in the context of social preferences). The research studies how social preferences influence willingness to pay and, further, how an individual’s social preferences influence the impact of framing. The framing used in this experiment mirrors one of the real world characteristics of climate change. Developed nations pollute the most per capita, but developing nations are the most exposed to negative effects from climate change. Some participants receive framing emphasizing the risks from climate change to themselves directly, whereas others receive language emphasizing the risk to those in developing nations. The hypothesis is that the former framing may be more motivating to self-regarding individuals, whereas individuals who are more strongly concerned with others' welfare are more motivated by the latter framing. Results from this experiment help to inform policy discussions. The findings, for example, may be useful to policy makers trying to word a referendum. Environmental activists may also find the results helpful in tailoring their messages.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

气候变化对个人和人类的全球威胁更为广泛。根据政府间气候变化的最新报告，我们必须立即并迅速达到零碳排放，以避免许多最坏的影响。因此，确定如何激励公众进行缓解碳的减轻措施对于政策制定者至关重要。该项目研究了在实验环境中衡量的减轻气候变化，以付费的意愿来衡量的价值。特别是，该项目着重于在社会偏好的背景下向人们（即框架）提供有关气候变化的信息的方式）。研究研究社会偏好如何影响支付的意愿，并进一步影响个人的社会偏好如何影响框架的影响。该实验中使用的框架反映了气候变化的现实世界特征之一。发展的国家污染人均最多，但发展中国家对气候变化产生的负面影响最大。一些参与者会收到框架，强调直接从气候变化到自己的风险，而另一些参与者则接受语言强调发展中国家的风险。假设是，以前的框架可能更有动力自我尊敬个人，而对他人的福利更加关注的人则更加受到后一个框架的动机。该实验的结果有助于告知政策讨论。例如，这些发现可能对试图介绍参考的决策者可能很有用。环境活动家还可能发现结果有助于调整其信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。