The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $173,194 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University on September 15, 2021 with a completion date of July 31, 2024. The grant supports the "HNDS-R COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MEASURING BELIEF DISTORTIONS TO IMPROVE PREDICTIVE OUTCOMES" project under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of how belief distortions impact...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant award of $234,489 supports collaborative research at New York University (NYU) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The primary objectives are to: Conduct a series of experiments to understand how people form subjective causal models based on observed data patterns, and how these models may be influenced by preconceptions triggered by natural contexts. This will provide insights into how economic...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $221,000 project grant to the University of Chicago under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant will support collaborative research examining heterogeneity, risk premia, and macroeconomic fluctuations. The funding will enable researchers to investigate how differences across economic agents impact asset prices and aggregate outcomes. Relevant contextual details include the program's goal of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $243,500 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research on heterogeneity, risk premia, and macroeconomic fluctuations from July 2021 through June 2024. The research aims to contribute to understanding how differences across economic agents impact asset prices and aggregate outcomes. As the awardee, Princeton University will oversee the research...
New York University will receive $365,029 under a three-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. The grant funds the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COMPCOG project, which supports adversarial collaborative research on intuitive physical reasoning. This work falls under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to strengthen basic research and education in these fields through funding and...
This $286,178 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on how changes in information dissemination and consumption can impact strategic decision-making and the achievement of common goals. The project aims to develop new methodological tools to measure information similarity across individuals and analyze its effects on collective action problems, coordination games, and policy...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded New York University a $309,890 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct research from September 2021 through August 2023 titled "EAGER: SAI: UNDERSTANDING MISPERCEPTIONS OF CYBER RISKS TO MODEL AND SECURE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES." The grant will fund research to contribute to understanding and monitoring resources...
New York University was awarded a $225,254 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for research titled "Collaborative Research: Network Formation and Bargaining with Exclusionary Commitments." The three-year grant beginning July 15, 2021 will support research examining how networks form when members can make commitments to exclude outsiders from future cooperation. Relevant to the program's goals of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $110,500 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as Nber for collaborative research on the effects of information, mentoring and time on economic faculty at MSIS. The two-year award running from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023 will fund research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program supports basic research and education...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $206,682 to The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology for research exploring how causal explanations impact beliefs. The research team will conduct a series of studies to better understand what aspects of causal explanations, whether factual or misplaced, make them appealing or believable. They...