Project Grant 1951132

The National Science Foundation awarded a $501,890 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to assess bias and idiosyncrasies in elite scientific peer review. The University of Colorado will produce and make publicly available multiple comprehensive anonymized datasets spanning submitted manuscripts and reviews from two elite general science journals over multiple years and fields. The...

This $117,053 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and evaluation of interventions to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scientific peer review process. The awardee, a consortium led by Indiana University including Columbia University and California State University San Bernardino, will design and deliver training to both graduate students navigating peer review and the reviewers/editors who...

This $274,095 National Science Foundation project grant supports the Reviewer Zero coalition's efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the peer review process. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program, the three-year award provides strategic programming and interventions for graduate students and reviewers/editors. The grantees—Indiana University, Columbia University, and California State San Bernardino—will design and deliver evidence-based training to build awareness of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) in the amount of $200,282 provides funding to North Carolina State University to conduct research on understanding and overcoming impediments to high-risk, high-return science. The researchers will develop and analyze mathematical models to examine how scientists balance competing incentives and constraints when pursuing their research programs, with a focus on...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering, provides $200,000 in funding to George Mason University to develop improved methods and concepts to guide the development and application of new digital technologies that could be used in peer review processes for evaluating scientific publishing and funding outcomes. The research team will seek to compare...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $233,514 to fund collaborative research on diagnostic expectations, uncertainty, and macroeconomic fluctuations. The research team from The Johns Hopkins University will investigate the inherent link between representativeness and uncertainty, formalizing a "smooth diagnostic expectations" framework. This will be used to develop quantitative...

This $281,331 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research at Brown University to investigate how individual biases and adversarial group dynamics can lead to high-quality decision-making. The proposed 3-year research program will conduct behavioral experiments to examine how ideologically diverse groups with adversarial viewpoints (e.g. from competing political parties) outperform more...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $217,772 Project Grant through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Alabama, effective July 1, 2024. This 3-year research project aims to investigate how individuals process information and make decisions when faced with prospects characterized by multiple layers of risk and/or ambiguity, such as those related to climate change or public health emergencies. The project will outline a series of...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $250,000 in funding to Cornell University to improve public decision-making by developing statistical methods to understand biases in crowdsourced data and engineer more efficient, transparent systems that account for missing information. The project aims to: 1) measure biases in report data from public crowdsourcing of incidents and...

This $185,441 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) supports research at Arizona State University (ASU) to examine individual differences and cognitive processes underlying belief revision. The project aims to quantify four types of belief revision distortions - valence-driven, identity-driven, self-serving, and conservatism - and determine whether individuals reliably differ in the rationality of...