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Kailie McGeoy ’21 PSYCHOLOGY Certificate in Environmental Studies POLICY, NORMS AND BEHAVIOR THESIS TITLE To Be a Sheep or to Be a Shepherd? How Political and Religious Identities Influence Environmental Dilemma Decisions and Post-Decision Emotions ADVISER Elke Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Psychology and the School of Public and International Affairs Study participants were presented with a hypothetical commons (public resources) dilemma asking how many sheep they would own as part of a communal pasture. The two present studies tested religious and political identity salience and in-group behavior information against differences in repeated commons’ dilemma choices and post-decision emotions. Participants were assigned to three groups where, before their second decision, they were told their in-group acted similarly to their first decision (congruent), dissimilarly (incongruent), or no information was provided (control). As expected, incongruent participants experienced significant differences between decisions in the direction of the in-group behavior. However, across both studies, participants that chose a low eco-friendly option in the first decision experienced significant decreases in their second decision regardless of treatment group. To our surprise, negative-emotion scores decreased significantly across studies and groups. In the religious study, social identity was a predictor of commons’ differences, regardless of first choice, and personal identity was a predictor of commons’ differences for participants who chose low eco-friendly first choices. These findings suggest that when identity is salient, non-ecoconscious behavior is more susceptible to change than eco-conscious behavior, and that negative emotions typically decrease between repeated measures, regardless of several variables. 41
Lauren McGrath ’21 ANTHROPOLOGY Senior Thesis Research Funding Awardee THESIS TITLE Ethnographic Data Visualization as a Methodology to Visualize the Health Impacts of Structural Violence in Urban Philadelphia Communities ADVISER Jeffrey Himpele, Director, Ethnographic Data Visualization Lab, Anthropology, Lecturer in Anthropology While structural violence harms individuals’ health, this connection is not broadly recognized in society because the relationships that constitute structural violence are invisible. This lack of recognition is compounded by society viewing data as representative of an ultimate truth. My thesis was twofold. My primary work was the website, The Side Unseen, which shows how ethnographic data visualizations can highlight a more complete story surrounding structural violence in Philadelphia. My written methodology supplemented the website by addressing the anthropological theory behind why structural violence demands visualization through a discussion of the subjectivity and power dynamics behind data creation. Ethnographic data visualization layers data with interlocutor narrative to emphasize the absence inherent in data. I argued that it is necessary to utilize an anthropological perspective when analyzing data because all data are a social construction. POLICY, NORMS AND BEHAVIOR 42
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