This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) project grant, awarded to Brown University, supports fundamental research on how group deliberation and decision-making processes can optimize collective performance. The $281,331 grant, awarded on July 15, 2024, will fund a 3-year research program to study the effectiveness of an "adversarial cooperation" model, which divides group work into a "conjecture" phase to generate ideas and a "refutation" phase to stress-test them. The research will involve behavioral experiments with small partisan groups reasoning about politicized problems, testing the hypothesis that ideologically diverse groups leveraging adversarial deliberation will outperform other group decision-making approaches. The project also aims to examine the efficacy of this model for detecting deepfake videos. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.
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