Integrating Spiritual, Moral and Ethical Considerations into Science Communication for Improved Decision Making and Public Action on Climate Science

国家安全和公民的健康和福祉都可能受到与气候有关的供应链、生产和基础设施中断的影响。推进气候科学的需要是紧迫和不断升级的。改善基于气候科学的公共行动、公众支持和决策，可以改善我们是否以及如何应对气候挑战。这项研究探讨了如何在公共行为中创造持久的变化，以支持有效的行动来应对气候对社会的影响。尽管气候科学传播已有四十年，但我们仍在继续寻求足够的公众和决策者行动以及决策者支持，以实质性地应对气候挑战。这项研究的重点是积极的自我效能框架（当一个人感到有能力采取行动并产生影响时），这些框架已被证明可以产生对气候科学的参与和支持，但在主流对话中基本上没有。具体来说，它侧重于道德，伦理和精神上的关注，虽然代表性不足，但已被证明对个人的态度和行为具有强大的影响力。构成该项目的三项研究的结果及其外联组成部分（多媒体内容、白色文件、录像、网站）可以增强决策者、企业领导人和其他相关领导人和利益攸关方的能力，通过有针对性的干预措施作出更知情的决定。该项目有三项研究，为期三年。每项研究都侧重于一个不同的领域，这些领域已经显示出产生持久变化的希望。第一项研究题为“促进自我反思”，涉及深度参与。过去的研究表明，如果一个人积极思考一个问题，他们更有可能发展持久的态度变化。这项研究跟踪了90名参与者，基于三种不同的道德，伦理或精神干预措施，以支持积极思考，同时应用定期调查来衡量进展。第二项研究，“复述故事”，着眼于心理模型。心理模型是我们的内部图式，影响我们如何应对新情况。这项研究包括150名参与者对不同环境多媒体干预措施的反应，这些干预措施基于道德，伦理或精神叙事，使用调查和数字心理建模工具。第三项研究，“建立传染性行为”，涉及社会规范，这是集体行为的强大周期。这项研究包括120名参与者和他们的实践环境自我生成的规范告知道德，伦理或精神的立场，并包括调查，书面反思和定期日志。这项研究是由科学的科学：发现，沟通和影响程序和社会，行为&经济科学办公室的助理主任。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，

Both national security and citizens’ health and well-being can be effected by climate-related disruptions to supply chains, production, and infrastructure. The need to advance climate science is urgent and escalating. Improving public action on, public support of, and decision making based on climate science improves if and how we respond to climate challenges. This research explores how to create enduring change in public behavior to support effective action to address climate impacts on society. Despite four decades of climate science communication, we continue to seek adequate public and decision maker action and decision maker support to substantively address climate challenges. This research focuses on positive self-efficacy frames (when a person feels empowered to take action and make an impact) that have been shown to generate engagement and support for climate science yet have been largely absent from mainstream dialogue. Specifically, it focuses on moral, ethical, and spiritual concerns, which though underrepresented have proven to have powerful sway over individual attitudes and behaviors. The findings of the three studies comprising this project and their outreach components (multimedia content, white papers, videos, a website) can empower decision makers, business leaders, and other relevant leaders and stakeholders to make more informed decisions through targeted interventions. This project has three studies that extend over three years. Each study focuses on a different area that has shown promise for generating enduring change in environmental behavior. The first study, entitled “Promoting Self-Reflection,” covers deep engagement. Past research shows that if a person engages in active thinking on an issue, they are more likely to develop enduring attitudinal change. This research follows 90 participants based on three different moral, ethical, or spiritual interventions to support active thinking while applying periodic surveys to measure progress. The second study, “Retelling the Story,” looks at mental models. Mental models are our internal schema that influence how we respond to new situations. This study includes 150 participants’ responses to different environmental multimedia interventions based on moral, ethical, or spiritual narratives using surveys and a digital mental modeling tool. The third study, “Building Infectious Behaviors,” addresses social norms, which are powerful cycles of collective behavior. This study includes 120 participants and their practice of environmental self-generative norms informed by moral, ethical or spiritual positions and includes surveys, written reflections and regular logging.This research is supported by the Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact program and the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences Office of the Assistant Director.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.