Project Grant 2337600
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $606,480.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research examining the impact of social media use on the mental health and academic achievements of adolescents. The research team at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will conduct an experimental study, randomly assigning adolescents to a treatment group that receives incentives to reduce social...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA program 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants, provides $427,625.00 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The award supports a longitudinal study examining how early adolescent social media use relates to body image concerns, with a focus on visual attention biases to self-focused digital content and the role of parental influence. The study will collect objective data on adolescent...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the causal impact of social media on psychological outcomes. The postdoctoral fellow, under the sponsorship of Dr. Jay Van Bavel at New York University, will conduct a field experiment to examine how temporarily reducing social media usage affects variables such as intergroup attitudes, well-being, and news...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Federal Grant Program for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075). The project, conducted by New York University (NYU), is examining the causal impact of social media usage on individual well-being and out-group animosity across multiple countries through a global field experiment. The research team is incentivizing a large sample of people to temporarily reduce...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program provides $150,000 in funding to Georgetown University to conduct research on improving transparency between social media platforms and users regarding the handling of reported harmful content. The key objectives are to: Understand what information users want to receive from social media platforms about reported harmful content through user interviews....
- The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in the amount of $837,718. The grant, awarded on Sep 2, 2024 with an ultimate completion date of Sep 1, 2026, will fund a longitudinal observational study examining the bidirectional influences of adolescents' social media activity and individual characteristics on depressive symptoms and body dissatisfaction,...
- The Pennsylvania State University received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The award will support research from June 2023 to May 2026 to address concerns about privacy risks from personal information sharing on social media, especially for low-income and underrepresented groups. The university will study how socioeconomic status...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $200,000 to Duke University to conduct a cross-national study using generative artificial intelligence, social simulation models, and online experiments. The goal is to identify how social media algorithms can be redesigned to promote mutual understanding, increase trust, and reduce polarization. The research design involves training large language models...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $432,014 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) on April 15, 2026, for a CAREER award focused on redesigning social media engagement infrastructure to improve mental well-being. The research initiative will deliver empirical studies characterizing harmful engagement mechanisms on social media platforms, develop validated typologies of...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $319,908 to the University of Pittsburgh to construct a database containing information on how public leaders at the national, state, and local levels communicate through social media and other public online forums. The database will capture measures of public figures' online transparency, responsiveness, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, provides $277,496 to the University of Pittsburgh to investigate the impact of social media use on body image among adolescent girls. The multi-method, longitudinal study aims to examine how specific social media experiences affect body image concerns over short-term and longer-term periods, utilizing a combination of eye-tracking, surveys, and ecological momentary assessments. The overarching goal is to provide transformative insights into the mechanisms by which social media use influences adolescent body image, as well as in-depth research training for the next generation of developmental scientists. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2029.
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