This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship award in the amount of $160,000 supports a two-year research project examining how children aged 7-12 understand and trust the capabilities of generative AI chatbots. The research involves a mixed-methods study across two phases - an initial experiment to assess children's trust in AI vs. human-provided information and their ability to identify common AI chatbot errors,...
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 $160,000 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigating the neural basis of social influence perception. Under the sponsorship of Drs. Shari Liu, Marina Bedny, and Tianmin Shu at Johns Hopkins University, the fellowship supports an early-career scientist who will use behavioral and neuroimaging methods to examine how the brain processes information about physical...
This $378,185 federal Project Grant award was provided 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 research at the University of Chicago to investigate how children's perceptions of others' competence are shaped by the way those individuals are spoken to. Specifically, the project aims to explore how stereotyped beliefs about certain student groups may...
This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research into the development of social cognition in children. Specifically, the grant supports an early career scientist to conduct a large-scale investigation examining how children's understanding of other minds emerges throughout the preschool years. Leveraging recent advances in online developmental science, the fellow will validate an updated mental state...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) award of $160,000 provides funding for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to study ways to motivate allyship behaviors to broaden participation in STEM fields. Under the sponsorship of Drs. Tiffany Ito and Evava Pietri at the University of Colorado Boulder, the research will examine tactics to encourage allyship behaviors and the mechanisms that underpin these tactics, as...
This $160,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate how children develop communicative competence through peer interactions. The key objectives are to collect and analyze a large dataset of child-child conversations, develop computational models comparing communicative acts across adult-adult, parent-child, and child-child contexts, and conduct...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship on children's understanding of physical contact. The research, led by an early career scientist under the sponsorship of Dr. Thomas Lyon at the University of Southern California, will investigate how children's definitions of contact evolve as they mature. The study aims to examine potential superordinate...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $160,000 to support a 1.5-year postdoctoral fellowship investigating how recruitment defaults impact representation in tenure-track STEM faculty positions. The fellowship, under the sponsorship of Dr. Sapna Cheryan at the University of Washington, will use correlational and experimental methods to examine: (1) how defaults in academic job ads...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to examine the effects of discrimination on neural circuitry and self-regulatory functioning in adolescence. The two-year award, made under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support research from July 2021 to June 2023 in Cary, North Carolina. The SBE Sciences program contributes to scientific strength and welfare by promoting basic research and...