What is the Decade of Behavior?
The Decade of Behavior (2000-2010) is a multidisciplinary initiative to focus the talents, energy, and creativity of the behavioral and social sciences on meeting many of society’s most significant challenges. These include improving education and health care; enhancing safety in homes and communities; actively addressing the needs of an aging population; and helping to curb drug abuse, crime, high risk behaviors, poverty, racism, and cynicism towards government. The beginning of the twenty-first century is the ideal time to highlight how insight into behavior will help meet these national challenges, and behavioral and social scientists are encouraged to bring their research results forward to help inform the public and the public policy process about the Decade's five major themes:
- Improving health
- Increasing safety
- Improving education
- Increasing prosperity
- Promoting democracy
What are the goals of the Decade of Behavior?
The major goals of the Decade of Behavior include, but are not limited to, the following:
- A multifaceted public education campaign about the importance and relevance of behavioral and social science research.
- Translation of behavioral and social science research findings into the public policy arena.
- Generation of new knowledge to address current challenges and to prepare the world for facing emerging problems in the 21st century.
- An action plan to recruit and retain the next generation of scholars in the behavioral and social sciences.
Contact information:
Decade of Behavior
750 First Street NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
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Phone: 202-336-6000
Fax: 202-336-5953