CCNMTL has partnered with the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University to build Web-based decision making tools that will both enhance the group’s research on human decision making and concretely demonstrate these concepts to students in the psychology course, Psychology: Thinking and Decision Making.
Elke Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business and Professor of Psychology, used a pilot of the CRED Decision-Making Tool to focus on glacial retreat on Mount Kilimanjaro in her psychology course in Fall 2006.
The two modules of the glacial retreat tool include an analytic presentation of information about climate change and glacial retreat on Mount Kilimanjaro as well as a presentation of the same information in an experiential format. Participants view their randomly assigned modules and submit an online survey that evaluates their retention of the material as well as any related behavioral intentions and attitudes they may have formed after viewing the information.
This current demo of the Glacial Retreat: Mount Kilimanjaro tool only provides content from the two modules without the survey portion. Future efforts will include making the glacial retreat tool publicly accessible as well as other online tools that cover additional climate uncertainty topics such as global warming.
Faculty Partners:
Prof. Elke Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business and Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
Content:
Dr. Sabine Marx, Associate Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
Debika Shome, Assistant Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
Project Management:
Alice Cox
Programming:
Anders Pearson
Web Development:
Zarina Mustapha
Executive Directors:
Frank Moretti
Maurice Matiz