From the organizers:
The Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the European Association for Decision Making are pleased to announce their second joint virtual symposium. The goal of the joint SJDM and EADM symposia is to strengthen ties between the two communities. Our first event held in 2023 was a huge success and we hope you will join us for the second event.
April 18th, 2024, from 7am to 9am PDT.
Zoom link:
https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/9816652650?pwd=amFJMUpXRkU2Wk1sWThTV2k2aGh1UT09
The general topic of this symposium is “Climate Change.”
The schedule is as follows (all times in PDT, e.g. Los Angeles):
- 07:00 to 07:20am – Helen Fischer (Title: Being Right vs. Knowing when you’re not: Exploring Metacognition in Climate Change)
- 07:20 to 07:40am – Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb (Title: Fostering Sustainable Behavior with Interventions Targeted to Individual Motives)
- 07:40 to 08:00am — Breakout rooms with networking and discussion
- 08:00am to 09:00 — Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Title: Should We Shange the Terms We Use to Talk about the Climate Crisis?)
The abstracts for the talks:
Helen Fisher: Being Right vs. Knowing when you’re not: Exploring Metacognition in Climate Change
In this talk, I will highlight the role of metacognition-our insight into what we do and do not know-for climate change. In this novel view on the psychology of climate change, I will introduce recent studies that ask: How good is citizens’ insight into their climate change knowledge? How is that related to climate change misinformation? And how does metacognition relate to beliefs and behavior regarding climate change? Jointly, this emerging literature will help us delve into the intricate interplay of metacognition and climate change, shedding light on its profound implications for informed decision-making and action.
Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb: Fostering Sustainable Behavior with Interventions Targeted to Individual Motives
Behavioral change is an integral part of climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, many interventions that encourage individuals to make more sustainable choices do not lead to the desired behavioral change. To tackle this challenge, we take a step back and focus on understanding the complex motivational structure behind sustainable behaviors. We (i) identified 14 individually relevant motives for sustainable behaviors in 14,262 individual responses using LLM to open-ended questions across the USA, Netherlands and China, (ii) show that these motives can be predicted from demographic variables and individuals’ risk and time preferences, and (iii) test how these insights can be used for designing more efficient behavioral interventions using an online platform for field experimentation that we designed for that purpose (https://sustainability.rsm.nl/demo).
Wändi Bruine de Bruin: Should We Change the Terms We Use to Talk about the Climate Crisis?
JDM research suggests that wording can affect people’s judgments and decisions. But could climate change communications be more effective if they used different terminology?
SJDM/EADM organizing committee (Gaelle Vallee-Tourangeau, Sudeep Bhatia, Dan Bartels, and Elena Reutskaja)