Scholars
Pei-Hsun Hsieh
University of Pennsylvania
Based in
United States
North America
My research focuses on behavior and policy preferences regarding climate change, inequality, and other societal challenges that require large-scale human cooperation. I use a variety of methods to study behavior, narrative, emotions, and underlying preferences, including incentivized/survey experiments, computational text analysis, and formal/agent-based modeling. Ultimately, my goal is to understand what motivates or demotivates individuals to act or support policies that mitigate climate change.
Country(ies) of Specialty
United States TaiwanFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Behavioral action Public opinion Social MediaPublications
Articles
Smirnov, Oleg, and Pei-Hsun Hsieh. “COVID-19, climate change, and the finite pool of worry in 2019 to 2021 Twitter discussions.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.43 (2022): e2210988119.