The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded New York University a $210,805 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year award, made on August 15, 2021 and running through July 31, 2024, will fund the "HNDS-R COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MEASURING BELIEF DISTORTIONS TO IMPROVE PREDICTIVE OUTCOMES" project. This research aims to contribute to scientific understanding and welfare by promoting basic...
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...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $455,481 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will enable ethical analysis, public engagement, and public justification in state-level pandemic responses in the United States from September 2021 through August 2023. As part of its mission to promote basic research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences,...
This $195,213 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the University of Southern California's investigation of misinformation beliefs expressed and spread online from September 2021 through August 2022. A sub-award of $TBD will support related research efforts at the University of California, Los Angeles. The goal of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program is to support basic research that contributes to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $105,249 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University with a performance period from August 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. This grant, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports a collaborative research project examining how leaders' behaviors and experiences across work and non-work domains, such as family and community activities, influence leadership...
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...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $185,441 to Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct research on the cognitive processes and individual differences underlying belief revision. The project aims to quantify and study four types of belief revision distortions: valence-driven, identity-driven, self-serving, and conservatism. By measuring these factors at the individual level across...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $259,129 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Trustees of Boston College. The grant supports a research project entitled "Collaborative Research: Science and Information Integrity: Strategies for Rebuilding Trust in Science". The project aims to advance theory and knowledge about enhancing the public value of scientific findings and scientific communities, and to offer...
This $364,766 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports fundamental research on the psychology of mass behavior and how large groups of people reason, form beliefs, and interact. The research project, conducted by the University of California, Santa Barbara, aims to extend behavioral economics methods to understand how individuals respond to and reason about the behavior of large groups. Key areas...