Closing the concern-action gap through relational climate conversations: insights from US climate activists

Climate change conversations.

THE THOUSANDS OF PRESENTATIONS AT NEXT WEEK’S MEETING OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS) in New Orleans exemplify one of the many ways scientists converse among themselves about the most recent advances in science. Science and technology continue to reshape the world we live in, and appreciating how these changes, both intended and unintended, come about is a necessity for all citizens in a...

Motivating Action through Fostering Climate Change Hope and Concern and Avoiding Despair among Adolescents

Efforts to build climate change concern seem warranted to overcome apathy and promote action. However, research suggests that these efforts can backfire by breeding despair, denial and inaction. This may be especially true among younger audiences, as despair is highest among those who view climate challenges as out of their control, and children generally have lower perceived and actual control...

Ava: From Data to Insights Through Conversations

Enterprises increasingly employ a wide array of tools and processes to make data-driven decisions. However, there are large inefficiencies in the enterprise-wide workflow that stem from the fact that business workflows are expressed in natural language but the actual computational workflow has to be manually translated into computational programs. In this paper, we present an initial approach t...

Convers-actions: conversations about action/action through conversations

Closing the achievement gap: the association of racial climate with achievement and behavioral outcomes.

This study investigated the relationship between school racial climate and students' self-reports of academic and discipline outcomes, including whether racial climate mediated and/or moderated the relationship between race and outcomes. Using the Racial Climate Survey-High School Version (M. Aber et al., unpublished), data were gathered from African American (n = 382) and European American stu...