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 $265,102 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports collaborative research to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The award aims to understand the causes behind the declining rate of innovation in science, which is vital for advancing technology, fostering social development, and tackling global issues. The research combines theoretical and empirical studies, using...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant award of $234,489 supports collaborative research at New York University (NYU) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The primary objectives are to: Conduct a series of experiments to understand how people form subjective causal models based on observed data patterns, and how these models may be influenced by preconceptions triggered by natural contexts. This will provide insights into how economic...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $162,948 project grant to Stanford University on September 15, 2021 for strategic information disclosure research. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) and will fund research from September 2021 through August 2024 exploring how the strategic release of information impacts decision-making. The grant supports basic research examining how individuals and organizations make choices when some...
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 Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $134,432, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award supports a collaborative research project that aims to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The researchers will use a novel mixed-method approach, combining empirical analysis of the scientific record with agent-based simulation models, to investigate both...
This $322,812 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports research to advance the understanding of how people engage with news online and how their behaviors evolve over time. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing computational models to identify different types of news engagement behaviors and their progression stages, using advanced language and user modeling...
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...
This $192,632 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.075) supports interdisciplinary research at Purdue University exploring how to improve decision-making processes. The project aims to develop a novel theory and operational framework for understanding how individuals and organizations weigh information sources and aggregate disparate data to reach conclusions, with applications in areas like user interface...