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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) grant award of $121,154 to Northeastern University provides funding for a collaborative research project titled "Science and Information Integrity: Strategies for Rebuilding Trust in Science." The project aims to investigate the causes and mechanisms underlying the decline in public trust in science, with a focus on addressing both fact-level misinformation and broader trust-level threats...
This $341,286 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds research to assess the impact of source credibility on public perceptions of science and support for place-based conservation. The project will use latent semantic analysis and mixed-methods content analysis to identify and compare the beliefs that shape agricultural land operators' and technoscientific sources' mental models of source...
This $322,812 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports research to advance the understanding of how people engage with news online and how their behaviors evolve over time. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing computational models to identify different types of news engagement behaviors and their progression stages, using advanced language and user modeling...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant, with the official CFDA program title "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences", provides $296,646 in funding to the University of California, Berkeley to investigate the role of media coverage in driving the commercial diffusion of scientific knowledge. The researchers will compile a unique dataset linking scientific press releases, journal articles, and patent-to-paper citations to study...
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 $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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $100,000 to Tulane University to conduct collaborative research on understanding the long-term dynamics of news engagement in online media. The research aims to develop computational models to identify news engagement behaviors and progression stages, establish a framework for estimating causal relationships between engagement behaviors, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award for $544,082 supports research to examine the structural barriers and facilitators for translating academic research to inform public policy. The study will elicit problem definitions and recommendations from decision-makers at public universities and research-funding philanthropies regarding how to improve the development of university-based infrastructure for research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $207,842 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Oregon (UO). The grant, with a project period from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, will fund research to investigate effective methods for communicating quantifiable health risks to the public in order to increase comprehension and promote healthy behaviors. The project will develop a theory-based taxonomy of risk communication...