Planning: CRISES: Social and Behavioral Aspects of Climate Change

气候变化是当今人类面临的最紧迫挑战之一。气候变化的解决方案将涉及改变人们对环境的看法和行为。拟议的工作是计划建立一个跨学科中心，将汇集来自心理学，社会学和环境科学等各个学科的研究人员，研究气候变化的社会和行为方面。这项工作将侧重于人们如何接收，处理和记住有关气候变化的信息等问题;影响亲环境信念，态度和行为的因素;以及文化价值观如何塑造人们对气候变化的理解。该中心的研究结果将有助于开发更有效的方式来沟通气候变化，并鼓励人们采取行动来解决这一危机。规划过程将涉及每个组成学科的专家举行若干次会议。该团队将考虑使用各种不同的方法来阐明气候变化的行为，认知和社会层面。这些方法包括在互联网上大规模研究个性与当地气候经验的影响之间的关系，对各种参与者进行实验，以揭示人们是否以及何时抵制或接受有关气候变化的信息，以及研究地图和其他视觉表现如何影响人们对气候变化的理解。规划过程将导致未来中心计划的制定，该中心将开发更有效的方式来沟通气候变化，并鼓励人们采取行动应对这一挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity today. The solutions to climate change will involve changing how people think about and behave in relation to their environment. The proposed work is to plan for the creation of an interdisciplinary center that would bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, and environmental science, to study the social and behavioral aspects of climate change. The work will focus on issues such as how people receive, process, and remember information about climate change; the factors that influence pro-environmental beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors; and how cultural values shape people’s understanding of climate change. The center’s findings will contribute to the development of more effective ways to communicate about climate change and encourage people to take action to address this crisis. The planning process will involve several meetings of experts from each of the constituent disciplines. The team will consider the use of a variety of different methods to shed light on the behavioral, cognitive, and social dimensions of climate change. These methods include large-scale Internet studies of the relationship between personality and the effects of local climate experiences, experiments with a variety of participants that will reveal whether and when people are resistant or receptive to information about climate change, and studies of how maps and other visual representations affect people’s understanding of climate change. The planning process will result in the development of plans for a future center that will develop more effective ways to communicate about climate change and encourage people to take action to address this challenge.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.