Reducing the cognitive abstractness of climate change through an “engineering fiction” learning experience: A natural language processing study

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3AW7HCEXCV" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:W7HCEXCV - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85189455777&doi=10.1016%2fj.jenvp.2024.102287&partnerID=40&md5=eb571f94d99bfac6c74038815f0d7d5d" target="_blank" >https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85189455777&doi=10.1016%2fj.jenvp.2024.102287&partnerID=40&md5=eb571f94d99bfac6c74038815f0d7d5d</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102287" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102287</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Reducing the cognitive abstractness of climate change through an “engineering fiction” learning experience: A natural language processing study

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The lackluster societal response to the climate crisis is partially attributed to the abstractness of people's mental construals of climate change given its vast spatial and temporal dimensions, which fail to evoke urgency to act. Prior efforts to measure mental construal levels of climate change are inconsistent, insufficient, and labor-intensive. This study developed and implemented learning experiences for integrating engineering design and climate fiction writing to engage 48 high school students in concrete climate change thinking. A novel measure of cognitive abstractness overcomes previous methodological shortcomings by automatically quantifying the linguistic abstractness of participant-authored stories using natural language processing. Comparing participant stories written at the beginning and end of the intervention reveals a significant decrease in linguistic abstractness (Cohen's d = 1.01, p = 0.03). This study contributes to the nascent movement for greater use of narratives as data sources in environmental psychology research, which may uncover new insights into human behavior and decision making. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd

Název v anglickém jazyce

Reducing the cognitive abstractness of climate change through an “engineering fiction” learning experience: A natural language processing study

Popis výsledku anglicky

The lackluster societal response to the climate crisis is partially attributed to the abstractness of people's mental construals of climate change given its vast spatial and temporal dimensions, which fail to evoke urgency to act. Prior efforts to measure mental construal levels of climate change are inconsistent, insufficient, and labor-intensive. This study developed and implemented learning experiences for integrating engineering design and climate fiction writing to engage 48 high school students in concrete climate change thinking. A novel measure of cognitive abstractness overcomes previous methodological shortcomings by automatically quantifying the linguistic abstractness of participant-authored stories using natural language processing. Comparing participant stories written at the beginning and end of the intervention reveals a significant decrease in linguistic abstractness (Cohen's d = 1.01, p = 0.03). This study contributes to the nascent movement for greater use of narratives as data sources in environmental psychology research, which may uncover new insights into human behavior and decision making. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Environmental Psychology

ISSN

0272-4944

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

95

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2024

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

6

Strana od-do

1-6

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85189455777