Project Grant 2315770
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to understand how the brain supports decision-making processes. The three-year grant, awarded under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to identify neural features that provide information about the decision-making process, build decoders to predict decisions, and develop a closed-loop...
- 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...
- This $276,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program will support computational and developmental research into children's self-representations and learning decisions. Specifically, the awardee will build a quantitative computational model integrating children's self-observations and social feedback to explain self-concept development. This model will be tested against adult data and developmental findings. It will also be...
- This $323,388 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project to examine how smart technological environments can be optimized to augment collective learning and creativity. The research aims to investigate the parameters that drive group-directed learning in three key areas: cooperative behavior, collective intelligence, and collective creativity. The project involves large-scale...
- This $272,750 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports fundamental research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on how people make decisions and interact based on information. The key research focuses include: 1) understanding the long-term implications of people's limited or imperfect memory, which can lead to overconfidence and neglect of rare events; 2) examining how people decide...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $604,245 to support research on the development of cooperative norms and behaviors in childhood. The project, conducted by researchers at Boston College, aims to investigate how internal motivations and children's developing sense of self contribute to the acquisition of cooperative behaviors. Using longitudinal behavioral methods, computational modeling,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) awarded a $529,508 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley to investigate the cognitive mechanisms that enable individuals to leverage the brain's motivation system for arbitrary goals. The 3-year research project, starting on June 1, 2024, aims to uncover how learning and decision-making differ when people pursue familiar, objective rewards versus novel, self-imposed...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award, provided through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a postdoctoral fellowship for an early-career scientist to study human decision-making, learning, and innovation in novel systems of rules and reward. The $160,000 award, spanning January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027, will be used to conduct large-scale behavioral studies, including human-human gameplay experiments, to empirically validate a...
- This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program provides $138,000 to study the influence of mental representations of social agents on social decision preferences. The grant will fund research from March 2022 to February 2024 to contribute to the scientific strength and welfare of the nation through the promotion of basic research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. The place of performance for the grant is Los...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $187,180 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research examining the relative roles of ecology, evolution, and experience in solving novel problems under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program contributes to scientific strength and welfare through promotion...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $525,175 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) to study the evolution of collective decision-making from childhood to adulthood. The three-year research project, titled "The Evolution of Collective Decision-Making from Childhood to Adulthood: Markets, Networks and Institutions", will employ experimental techniques to investigate decision-making behavior and the cognitive and affective skills that underpin it across four paradigms: trade behavior in markets, information aggregation in social networks, social learning environments, and peer preference aggregation. The research aims to enhance understanding of human behavior in group situations, identify the skills that guide decision-making processes, and ascertain how these skills evolve with age, with the potential to inform policymaking, education, and societal structures.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $525.2k | 7/11/23 |