Deliberative Methods for Understanding Environmental Systems (2005)
Environmental problem solving needs science but also inevitably requires subjective judgment. Science can help in dealing with subjectivity, because scientists have long experience developing...
In Search of the Magic Lasso: The Truth About the Polygraph (2005)
Fienberg, Stephen E., Stern, Paul C.
In the wake of controversy over allegations of espionage by Wen Ho Lee, a nuclear scientist at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, the department ordered that polygraph tests...
Answering behavioral questions about energy efficiency in buildings (1987)
Stern, Paul C., Aronson, Elliot, Darley, John M., Kempton, Willett, Hill, Daniel H., Hirst, Eric, ...
We identify behavioral questions that arise with 4 kinds of policy interventions for energy efficiency in buildings: information, incentives, standards, and technological research and development. A...
Thomas Dietz, Paul C. Stern, Amy Dan
Respondents reported willingness to pay (WTP) for mitigating carbon dioxide emissions after structured group discussion or without this deliberation. Deliberation did not affect mean or median WTP,...
Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions
Dietz, Thomas, Gardner, Gerald T., Gilligan, Jonathan, Stern, Paul C., Vandenbergh, Michael P.
Most climate change policy attention has been addressed to long-term options, such as inducing new, low-carbon energy technologies and creating cap-and-trade regimes for emissions. We use a...