Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Roles of Psychological Distance and Emotional Response in Explaining Differences in Perceived Risk and the Climate Change Concern/Intentions Gap

博士论文研究：心理距离和情绪反应在解释感知风险差异和气候变化担忧/意图差距中的作用

• 批准号: 1822997
• 负责人: Janet Yang
• 金额: $ 1.95万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-15 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822997&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Roles; Psychological

Research examining the extent to which individuals express concern over the threat posed by climate change finds that expressed concern increases if the information is conveyed in a way that makes the impacts "psychologically close" and that this effect is more pronounced among liberal than among conservative respondents. Research also shows that the increased concern does not translate into an increase in actual intentions to engage in mitigation activities. This project applies principles of psychological distance/construal level theory to examine how messages about types of climate impacts/mitigation actions presented in psychologically proximate or distant terms can influence levels of concern, how different emotions elicited by these communications (e.g., fear or anger) may explain the observed response discrepancies with respect to political persuasion, and why there is a disparity between "concern" and "intentions." These research findings are very likely applicable to a variety of social issues. By shedding light on the fundamental mechanisms that influence human perception and decision-making, this project will provide insights into the nature and determinants of the U.S. public's risk perception, emotional responses, policy support, and mitigation intentions related to a variety of issues.The effects of perceived psychological distance (temporal and spatial/social) of climate change (impacts and mitigation efforts) on perceived desirability (concern to ameliorate) and feasibility (behavioral intentions), mediated by emotional responses and self-efficacy, and moderated by cultural worldview, will be tested using the results of an experiment involving a large representative survey.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.

研究探讨个人对气候变化构成的威胁的关注程度的程度发现，如果信息的传达方式，则表示关注的问题会增加，从而使影响“心理上接近”，并且这种影响比保守派受访者在自由主义中更为明显。研究还表明，增加的关注并不能转化为从事缓解活动的实际意图的增加。 This project applies principles of psychological distance/construal level theory to examine how messages about types of climate impacts/mitigation actions presented in psychologically proximate or distant terms can influence levels of concern, how different emotions elicited by these communications (e.g., fear or anger) may explain the observed response discrepancies with respect to political persuasion, and why there is a disparity between "concern" and "intentions."这些研究发现很可能适用于各种社会问题。通过阐明影响人类感知和决策的基本机制，该项目将提供对美国公众风险感知的性质和决定因素的见解可行性（行为意图）是由情感反应和自我效能感所介导的，并通过文化世界观进行了调节，将使用涉及大型代表性调查的实验结果进行测试。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过该基金会的智力功能和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得的。