February 24-28, 2012 AAG Annual Meeting 2012 New York, New York CRED was represented at this year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting, held February 24-28 in New York, by visiting research scholar Diana Reckien and visiting scholar Seth Baum. Diana presented a paper on “What it needs to reduce perceived burden – Climate… read more

December 5-9, 2011 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting San Francisco, California Katherine Thompson, graduate student, and CRED director David Krantz represented CRED at the 2011 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Katherine presented a poster, “Why Don’t People Evacuate When Nature Threatens?” in the session on geophysical hazards and social/ecological vulnerabilities. Her poster summarized… read more

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” by S. Attari (Session: Key Lessons From Behavior) – “Public Misperceptions And Effective Behaviors” by S. Attari (Session:… read more

November 4-7, 2011 Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) Annual Conference Seattle, Washington CRED researchers presenting at this year’s SJDM Conference: Arora, P. (Manhattan College); Logg, J. (University of California, Berkeley); Larrick, R. (Duke University) I’ll Let You Walk All Over Me If It Makes Me Look Good: Role of Group and Beneficiary Identity… read more

December 13-17, 2010 2010 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting San Francisco, California CRED researchers presenting at this year’s AGU Fall Meeting include: David H. KrantzTime Horizon and Social Scale in CommunicationCurrent Session- NH19: Transmitting Hazard Science to End Users: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Needed? Benjamin Orlove, Kenneth Broad, Robert Meyer Assessing the… read more

November 20-22, 2010 Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) Annual Conference St. Louis, Missouri CRED researchers presenting at this year’s SJDM Conference: David Hardisty, Shane Frederick, Elke U. Weber “I can’t stand waiting!” Dread looms larger than pleasurable anticipation (Presentation) Jennifer M. Logg, Poonam Arora Through the green looking glass: Attention and attitude influence… read more

November 21-23, 2009 Society for Judgement and Decision Making (SJDM) Annual Conference Boston, MA A large delegation from CRED participated at this year’s conference. Click on the titles below for abstracts: Kirstin Appelt & E. Tory Higgins Is emphasizing losses (vs. gains) better in negotiations with multiple issues? (Poster) Shahzeen Attari Lay Perceptions of Energy… read more

June 28, 2008 Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition & Reception Washington, DC The American Psychological Association (APA) chose CRED to represent the association at the 2008 annual Exhibit and Reception for the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF). CNSF is an alliance of over 100 organizations that support increased funding for the NSF. The… read more

April 10, 2008 Decision Making Under Climate Uncertainty: Empirical Results New York, NY At this meeting held at Columbia University, NSF-funded groups discussed recent scientific research on climate change to better understand how decision makers make choices under uncertainty. » Click to download any of the presentations from this meeting below: Poonam Arora, Sabine Marx,… read more

November 17, 2007 Society for Judgement and Decision Making Conference, Decision Making Under Climate Uncertainty: Empirical Results Long Beach, CA At this conference, three NSF-funded groups, CRED, Climate Decision Making Center at Carnegie Mellon, and Rand Corporation, examined the results of studies on decision making under climate uncertainty and time discounting. The studies show that… read more