2011 December 1, 2011 UNFOLD: Climate Change Art & Science Dating Game New York, New York
In collaboration with PositiveFeedback, CRED recently co-hosted a speed dating event for climate scientists and artists at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design, as part of the exhibition "U-n-f-o-l-d, A Cultural Response to Climate Change".
Read more about this initiative of the Earth Institute, the Center for Creative Research at NYU, and the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities in Brian Kahn's EI State of the Planet blog entry.
November 29-December 2, 2011 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC) Annual Conference Washington DC
CRED research was well represented and included the following topics:
- "I’ll do the easy thing, you do the hard thing" (Session: Key Lessons From Behavioral) by S. Attari
- "Public Misperceptions And Effective Behaviors" (Session: Economics Climate Denial, Public Attitudes And Behavioral Missteps: Understanding The Landscape) by S. Attari
- "Perceptions of mitigation options: Is food choice overlooked" (poster) by S. Baum
- "Is this my problem? Inspiring individual accountability and pro-environmental behavior" (poster) by T. Simpson
- "Local weather and perceptions of global warming" (Session: Worldviews, Lifestyles, Attitudes And Pocketbooks) by L.Zaval
November 19, 2011 International Climate and Society Conference Thimphu, Bhutan
CRED Co-Director Ben Orlove participated in this summit investigating climate change over the Himalayas, its various impacts on human and natural systems, and strategies for adaptation. For more details on this Earth Institute collaboration, read here
or visit the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment's homepage.
November 9, 2011 Falling Walls Berlin, Germany
CRED Co-Director Elke Weber speaks at international conference on future breakthroughs in science and society on the anniversary of the Berlin wall falling.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel cites Elke's work as part of her keynote address as critical contribution to better understanding how decisions are made and on how change is implemented or resisted. More information on the conference and Elke's presentation can be found here.
»Click on video below to watch Angela Merkel's keynote address.
November 4-7, 2011 Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) Annual Conference Seattle, Washington Click here to learn more about CRED's participation at this year's conference.
October 17-21, 2011 Mind and Life XXIII Conference Dharamshala, India
CRED Co-Director Elke Weber met with the Dalai Lama along with other climate, behavioral and environmental scientists and Buddhist scholars to discuss Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence. Participating in a session on "Ethics and Action: The Psychology of Action and Behavior Change", Elke presented the CRED Communications Guide
and also shared impressions from the meeting in a guest postcard entry written with University of Arizona's Diana Liverman in Andrew Revkin's
NYT Dot Earth blog. Kevin Krajick also covered this event in the
EI State of the Planet blog.
- For more information, visit the Mind & Life Institute website with the conference overview, list of participants and uploaded recordings, to include Session 7 with Elke Weber.
September 6-7, 2011 NSF Hazards Research Showcase NSF Headquarters and Capitol Hill, Washington DC
CRED Co-Directors Ben Orlove and Kenneth Broad, along with CRED researcher Robert Meyer and Psychology doctoral student, Katherine Thompson, were asked to present research related to natural hazards.
- For more information, read Katherine Thompson's EI State of the Planet blog entry or click here.
May 2011 2011 Climate, Buildings and Behavior Symposium Garrison Institute- Garrison, New York
Shahzeen Attari, CRED postdoctoral researcher and Earth Institute Fellow, gave a presentation on "Human behavior and energy consumption: Understanding decisions about energy."
April 22, 2011 Earth Day: The Civilians’ The Great Immensity (Excerpts) Martin E. Segal Theatre Center- CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
CRED Co-Director Elke Weber participated as a panelist at the discussion following this free showing of excerpts from The Great Immensity, a play which looks at the future of our planet and the environmental challenges facing us all.
-For more information, click here
2010 October 2, 2010 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House Palisades, New York
CRED researchers participated in this year's Open House event, offering visitors first-hand environmental decision making experiences through an interactive computer game, and providing insights into the psychology of climate change communication.
- For more information, click here
May 2010 Climate, Buildings and Behavior Symposium Garrison Institute- Garrison, New York
Shahzeen Attari, CRED postdoctoral researcher and Earth Institute Fellow, gave a presentation entitled: "Global Climate Change and Individual Behavior: Interventions, perceptions, preferences, motivations, and risk"
- For more information on the Climate, Buildings and Behavior Symposium click here
»Click on video below to see Shahzeen Attari's talk at the Garrison Institute
March 10-12, 2010 Climate, Mind and Behavior Symposium Garrison Institute- Garrison, New York
Sabine Marx, Managing Director of CRED, gave presentation entitled: "Behavioral Decision Theory, Cognitive and Social Psychology: Lessons learned from CRED"
- For more information on the Climate, Mind and Behavior Symposium click here
»Click on video below to see Sabine Marx's talk at the Garrison Institute
March 2, 2010 Spring 2010 CSSR Seminar: Moral Standards in Decision Making Center for the Study of Science and Religion- Columbia University, New York
»Click on video below to see Dave Krantz's talk at the CSSR Seminar Series
January 11-14, 2010 Predicting The Climate Of The Coming Decades (Miami, Florida)
Delegation from CRED in attendance included Sabine Marx, David Krantz, Howard Kunreuther, and Daniel Osgood.
»Click here to view David Krantz's presentation on temporal horizons in decision making
»Click here to view Howard Kunreuther's presentation- "At War with the Weather and Other Extreme Events"
»Click here for more information on Daniel Osgood's presentation entitled "Trends, Decadal Processes, and Rainfall Insurance for Farmers in Ethiopia", a joint research project between IRI and CRED on index insurance
December 7, 2009 Tipping Point (Palisades, New York)
CRED co-sponsored the first ever US TippingPoint event where local artists and scientists confronted climate change
»To read more about the event, click here
November 21-23, 2009 Society for Judgement and Decision Making (SJDM) Annual Conference (Boston, MA)
»Click here to learn more about CRED's participation at this year's conference
October 22, 2009 Fall 2009 Seminars on Sustainable Development: Behavioral Challenges and Opportunities Earth Institute- Columbia University, New York
»Click on video below to see Elke Weber and Dave Krantz's talk at the Sustainable Development Seminar Series
April 2, 2009 Columbia Climate Center Launch Earth Institute- Columbia University, New York
»Click on video below to see Sabine Marx's talk at the Columbia Climate Center Launch [11:40-25:09]
July 1, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Allison Reid, Columbia University “The effect of affiliation on criminal decision making,” Pilot test for senior thesis study
June 24, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Elke Weber, Columbia University "Behavioral Decision Theory and Environmental Policy "
June 20, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Dan Osgood and Maria Alejandra Velez, Columbia University Pilot test of an insurance game for Ceara, Brazil
June 10, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Susan Mohammed, Penn State University “The Measurement of Decision Styles: The Development and Validation of Rational, Intuitive, and Avoidant Scales”
June 3, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Dave Krantz, Columbia University Discussion on Temporal Framing
May 13, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Kirstin Appelt, Columbia University "When the role fits: Regulatory fit in negotiations"
May 6, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Ganna Pogrebna , Columbia University "The Effect of Framing in the Interdependent Security Games"
April 29, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Nicole Peterson , Columbia University "Risk management, vulnerability, and index insurance in agricultural development"
April 22, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Maria Alejandra Velez , Columbia University “Collective Titling and the Process of Institution Building: Common Property Regime in the Colombian Pacific”
April 8, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Poonam Arora , Columbia University “Preliminary findings from a new coordination study”
March 18, 2008 Workshop on Discounting: Measuring discount rates and introduction to the range of economic and psychological approaches, with Geoff Heal, Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia Business School
March 11, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: David Hardisty, Columbia University “Open Access Matters”
February 26, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Ryan O. Murphy , Columbia University “Measuring Social Value Orientation”
February 19, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: David Hardisty , Columbia University “Framing Effects on Support for Carbon Reduction Measures”
February 5, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Susan Bodnar , Teachers College, Columbia University "Behavioral Enactments of a Changing Relationship to the Earth”
February 1, 2008 CRED Seminar Series: Nicole Yoskowitz , Columbia University "Environmental Decision Making by Individuals and Groups"
2007 December 18, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Pavlo Blavatskyy , University of Zurich, Switzerland "Stochastic Decision Theory"
December 11, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Maria Alejandra Velez , Columbia University "Distributional Choices under Asymmetric Productivity: Trust and Water in the North East Brazil." (Preliminary data from the pilot in Brazil).
November 27, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Bethany Cutts , ASU, Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC) Discussion of 1) the cumulative impact of information sources on the water awareness of the phoenix public (and potential justice issues therein); 2) the understanding of the role of science in organizational posturing surrounding a water supply controversy in northern AZ; 3) overlap and points of contact with CRED's research projects and research methodologies.
November 13, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Timo Assmuth , Tufts University and Finnish Environmental Institute “Humble leaps: Integrated risk assessment as a research, policy and cultural challenge, with European perspectives especially in chemicals control and climate change”
October 30, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Ganna Pogrebna , Columbia University "Entry to Multiple Markets and Coordination Failure: An Experimental Approach"
October 23, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Gur Huberman , Columbia Business School "Preferred Risk Habitat of Individual Investors."
October 16, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Jeffrey Domanski , Princeton University "Farming for Climate Change Solutions: Are Non-Economic Motivations Important in Agricultural Emissions Trading Markets? (A research proposal)"
October 9, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Anja Zimmer , Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin "Insurance Decisions with Default Risk"
October 2, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: David Hardisty and Damon Monticello , Columbia University Discussion of the designs of their next experiments
July 20, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Latrell Hudson , Office of Minority Affairs Intern, Columbia University "The Role of Contextual Motivators in Decision Making"
July 20, 2007 CRED Seminar Series: Maryann Odusanya , Office of Minority Affairs Intern, Columbia University "Social Connectedness and its Affect on Decision-Making”
July 10, 2007
CRED Seminar Series: Matthew Nisbet
"Framing and the Communication of Climate Science" with Matthew Nisbet, American University. PODCAST: To hear an audio recording of Matthew Nisbet's talk,» click here. New!! VIDEO: To watch a video of Matthew Nisbet's talk, » click here.
May 30, 2007
CRED Seminar Series: Bogdan Vasi
"What types of educational campaigns are most effective in mobilizing the public to take actions against global climate change?" with Bogdan Vasi, Columbia University.
April 18, 2007
CRED Seminar Series: Loran Chollete
"Economic Implications of Extreme Events" with Loran Chollete, Norwegian School of Economics and Business; Norwegian Central Bank.
April 11, 2007
CRED Seminar Series: Bob Tortora and Gale Muller
"Gallup World Poll on Well Being" with Bob Tortora and Gale Muller, Gallup Organization.
March 10-11, 2007 American Museum of Natural History, International Polar Exploration Symposium
CRED will be taking part in AMNH's "New York and Polar Research - A Partnership Spanning the Centuries". The program is designed to focus attention on how the local, urban environment of New York, interacts with the remote environments of the Arctic and Antarctic. Sabine Marx will be presenting a talk entitled, "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Graphs: The Psychology of Environmental Decision Making". In addition, CRED will have a table at the AMNH Polar Fair with information about CRED research and environmental decision making. Open to the Public.
February 28, 2007
CRED Seminar Series: Dinah Koehler
"Economics and Decision Sciences Research at the EPA Office of Research and Development" with Dinah Koehler, U.S. EPA.
To hear an audio recording of Dinah Koehler's talk,» click here.
February 21, 2007
CRED Seminar Series: Bogdan Vasi
"Message Framing and Mobilization of Collective Action to Address Global Climate Change" with Bogdan Vasi, ISERP.
January 31, 2007
CRED Seminar Series: Cynthia Rosenzweig
"Assessing Climate Risks with New York Metropolitan Region Decision-makers: Experiences from the Metro East Coast Study and Beyond" with Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard.
December 6, 2006
CRED Seminar Series: Stephanie Pfirman
"Women and Interdisciplinary Ways of Working" with Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College.
October 11, 2006
CRED Seminar Series: Helmut Jungermann "Utility of imagination in decision making" with Helmut Jungermann.
October 2, 2006
CRED Seminar Series: Carlos Laciana and Federico Bert
"Modelling Adaptive Management in Agroecosystems in the Pampas in Response to Climate Variability and Other Risk Factors" with Carlos Laciana and Federico Bert.
September 13, 2006
CRED Seminar Series: Roly Russell
"Social schemata: identifying pathways to sustainable societies" with Roly Russell, Columbia University.
June 13, 2006
CRED Seminar Series: Pablo Suarez
"Towards a research agenda on the role of audiovisual tools in community-level adaptation" with Pablo Suarez, Boston University.
April 26, 2006
CRED Seminar Series: Cheryl Doss
"Perceptions of Risk Within Pastoralist Households in East Africa" with Cheryl Doss, Yale University.
March 15, 2006
CRED Seminar Series: Tobias Siegfried
"Novel Approaches to Multi-objective Decision Making with Application to Water Resources Management" with Tobias Siegfried, Columbia University
February 22, 2006
CRED Seminar Series: Nava Ashraf
"Measuring Time-inconsistency and Designing Commitment Devices" with Nava Ashraf, Harvard University.
February 17, 2006
CRED Seminar Series: Joe Arvai
"Less Is Often More: Making the Case for Decision Aiding in Environmental Risk Consultations" with Joe Arvai, Michigan State University.
November 30, 2005
CRED Seminar Series: Liam Clarke
"How much is a forecast worth?" with Liam Clarke, London School of Economics.
November 23, 2005
CRED Seminar Series: Andrew Gelman and Tian Zhang
"Rich state, poor state, red state, blue state: What's the matter with Connecticut?" with Andrew Gelman, Columbia University.
November 16, 2005
CRED Seminar Series: Tony Leiserowitz
"Environmental risk perception" with Tony Leiserowitz, Decision Research.
October 26, 2005
CRED Seminar Series: Vladimir Gil
"Social conflicts and transnational mining: ethnographic perspectives in Peru" with Vladimir Gil, Columbia University.
August 1, 2005
CRED Seminar Series: Andrew Gelman
"Multi-level modeling" with Andrew Gelman, Columbia University.
April 13, 2005
CRED Seminar Series: Andrea Hollingshead
"Strategic Information Sharing in Group Decision Making" with Andrea Hollingshead, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
