Addressing climate change with behavioral science:A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions' effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior-several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people's initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors.</p

Addressing climate change with behavioral science: a global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people’s initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors

Addressing climate change with behavioral science:A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions' effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%), policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%), information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%), and no intervention increased the more effortful behavior-several interventions even reduced tree planting. Last, the effects of each intervention differed depending on people's initial climate beliefs. These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors.</p

Forschungsnahe Dienste von (Medizin-)Bibliotheken

This issue focuses on the topic of “Research-related services of (medical) libraries”. These include services for research data management, systematic literature searches and reviews in the context of evidence-based medicine, and other services related to the publication of research results. The current issue also contains reflections on ChatGPT in the medical library focus, the Medical Librarian’s Bibliography 2022 as well as reports from the Working Group on Evidence-Based Medicine within AGMB (AG-EBM) and “German MLA (AGMB) News”

„Leuchtturmprojekte an Medizinbibliotheken“ – Ausschreibung für den AGMB-Wettbewerb 2018

The competition “Pioneer projects in medical libraries” 2018 and its terms are announced. Medical libraries are invited to apply for with their projects until 31/03/2018. The winners will be introduced during the Annual Meeting of the German MLA (AGMB) in Oldenburg (10/09/2018 to 12/09/2018)

Die Medizinische Bibliothek der RWTH Aachen

The paper introduces the medical library of the RWTH Aachen University. It starts with a short historical review and describes the status of the medical library inside the library system of the university. Duties and responsibilities and the electronic offers are highlighted. It gives some information about the ranking, which is used for identifying the most important journals. The paper ends with some key data about the medical library and a list of references.In diesem Beitrag wird die Medizinische Bibliothek der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen vorgestellt. Kurz wird auf die Entwicklung seit ihrer Gründung 1966 eingegangen und ihre Stellung innerhalb des Bibliothekssystems der Hochschule beschrieben. Aufgaben und Dienstleistungen sowie elektronische Angebote werden dargelegt. Etwas ausführlicher wird auf das Ranking, mit dem seit 2003 der Zeitschriftenbedarf der Medizinischen Fakultät ermittelt wird, eingegangen. Abschließend werden Kernzahlen präsentiert und eine Aufstellung der Literatur über die Medizinische Bibliothek angegeben

Erhöhung der Attraktivität einer naturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek durch die fachspezifische Vermittlung von Informationskompetenz als Chance zur Verbesserung ihrer Akzeptanz innerhalb der Hochschule

Wissenschaftliche Zweigbibliotheken verlieren zunehmend u. a. aufgrund der wachsenden digitalen Verfügbarkeit von Informationen an Attraktivität bei ihren Nutzern. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt Möglichkeiten auf, die einer naturwissenschaftlichen Zweigbibliothek helfen können, ihren Platz in der Hochschule neu zu bestimmen und sich im hochschulinternen Umfeld zu behaupten. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der Vermittlung von Informationskompetenz. Es wird die Ausgangssituation an der Hochschule beschrieben. Dazu werden die Ergebnisse repräsentativer Studien durch eine eigene Umfrage ergänzt. Anschließend werden die Aspekte ausführlich diskutiert, die für die Organisation und Durchführung von Veranstaltungen zur Vermittlung von Informationskompetenz zu beachten sind. Abschließend wird ein konkretes Konzept zur Vermittlung von Informationskompetenz für Studierende und Graduierte der Chemie beispielhaft skizziert

Leuchtturmprojekte an Medizinbibliotheken – Ausschreibung für den AGMB-Wettbewerb 2017

The competition “Pioneer projects in medical libraries” 2017 and its terms are announced. Medical libraries are invited to apply for with their projects until 31/03/2017. The winners will be introduced during the Annual Meeting of the German MLA (AGMB) in Vienna (25/09/2017 to 27/09/2017)

Die Medizinische Bibliothek der RWTH Aachen / The Medical Library of the RWTH Aachen University

The paper introduces the medical library of the RWTH Aachen University. It starts with a short historical review and describes the status of the medical library inside the library system of the university. Duties and responsibilities and the electronic offers are highlighted. It gives some information about the ranking, which is used for identifying the most important journals. The paper ends with some key data about the medical library and a list of references