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 (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, is funding a research project titled "A Computational Framework for Complex Latent Structures." The $329,937 award, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, supports research to understand the psychological processes that allow humans to learn the relationships between individuals in complex social settings. The project aims to develop a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $545,811 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Trustees of Princeton University. The grant, awarded on July 1, 2025, supports collaborative research to investigate how individuals can make choices that better align with their personal values and goals. The project will develop innovative methods to measure people's awareness of their decision-making processes and examine how increased...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $557,098 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on "Patterns of Dynamic Change in Relationship Quality Over Time." The project aims to use innovative longitudinal methods and large, diverse samples to examine how romantic relationships change day-to-day and identify patterns that predict relationship outcomes. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $750,000 to The Washington University to test three competing conceptual models for how person and situation factors influence human behavior. The research will develop more personalized assessment methods to determine when person vs. situation factors are more important in predicting behavior for different individuals. This multi-year project will involve a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $543,995 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the Regents of the University of Michigan. This 3-year grant, starting on September 1, 2024, aims to develop statistical tools to assess the societal impacts of predictive models and policy recommendations in order to improve social welfare. The technical focus is on leveraging the phenomenon of "performativity", where the predictive...
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...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $325,001 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The grant funds the Michigan Summer Program in Cognition and Early Development (MSPICED), which is an undergraduate research experience program focused on research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences. As the place of performance for...
This $595,183 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a research project that examines the factors influencing the spread and persistence of dynamic social norms. The project investigates attributes like trend longevity, universality, shared cause, and sufficiency that can encourage individuals to adopt emerging social behaviors and beliefs, particularly in the context of addressing societal...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $307,284 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as University of Michigan) to conduct a collaborative research study titled "HNDS-R: Stepping Out of Flatland: Complex Networks, Topological Data Analysis, and the Progress of Science." The 3-year project, beginning September 1, 2023, will use...