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 $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...
Boston College was awarded a $330,331 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the federal grant program titled "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences" (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds the "REU SITE: DEVELOPING SOCIAL MINDS" project, which will contribute to research and education in the social sciences from April 2021 through March 2024. The project aims to enhance understanding of how social minds develop and function through promoting basic research and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $322,101 project grant to Boston College under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN REMOTE WORK" from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024. This grant will fund research into continuity and change in remote work as workplace practices have shifted significantly with the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences...
Trustees of Boston College received a $299,860 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations on January 1, 2022 for collaborative research titled "Probabilistic, Geometric, and Topological Analysis of Neural Networks, from Theory to Applications." The research is being conducted under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance understanding of major problems in these scientific fields and...
This $276,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study examining the impact of non-science isolation practices on scientific production and collaboration. The research aims to deepen understanding of how national scientific systems are interconnected with global economic and political dynamics, providing insights on the effects of scientific cooperation across countries...
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 $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
This $265,102 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports collaborative research to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The research aims to investigate the causes behind the observed decline in innovative activity in science, which is vital for advancing technology, fostering social development, and tackling global issues. Using a novel mixed-method...
This Project Grant award of $214,408 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research on the development of cooperative norms and behaviors in childhood. The central hypothesis is that cooperative decisions are driven not only by external factors, but also by internal motives that are acquired during childhood. The research team will use longitudinal behavioral methods, computational modeling, and movement tracking to...