This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award, valued at $411,707, provides funding for a collaborative research project studying the neural and computational mechanisms underlying flexible goal-directed decision-making. The project, awarded to the University of California, Berkeley, aims to better understand how people can flexibly adjust their information search and actions to achieve different goals and handle varying task...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) awarded a $529,508 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley to investigate the cognitive mechanisms that enable individuals to leverage the brain's motivation system for arbitrary goals. The 3-year research project, starting on June 1, 2024, aims to uncover how learning and decision-making differ when people pursue familiar, objective rewards versus novel, self-imposed...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $750,000 to The Washington University to test three competing conceptual models for how person and situation factors influence human behavior. The research will develop more personalized assessment methods to determine when person vs. situation factors are more important in predicting behavior for different individuals. This multi-year project will involve a...
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 $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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $269,624 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on August 1, 2021 for collaborative research titled "CAUTION AND REFERENCE EFFECTS." The three-year project ending July 31, 2024 will examine how caution and reference effects impact decision-making. Princeton University will conduct experiments and analyze results to contribute to understanding these influences. The...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $525,175 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) to study the evolution of collective decision-making from childhood to adulthood. The three-year research project, titled "The Evolution of Collective Decision-Making from Childhood to Adulthood: Markets, Networks and Institutions", will employ experimental techniques to investigate decision-making behavior and the cognitive and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $752,727 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania. The grant, titled "CAREER: A Neurocomputational Approach to Contextually Flexible Human Social Behavior", aims to generate new scientific understanding of flexible human social decision-making and its underlying neural...
This $286,178 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on how changes in information dissemination and consumption can impact strategic decision-making and the achievement of common goals. The project aims to develop new methodological tools to measure information similarity across individuals and analyze its effects on collective action problems, coordination games, and policy...