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...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 project grant to Chestnut Hill, Newton, MA to develop an understanding of children's punishment behavior across social and motivational contexts from December 2021 through November 2023. This award falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Specifically, the grant...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $595,183 from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027 to Trustees of Boston College (Boston College) to conduct research on understanding the factors that determine when societal norms and trends spread or fail to take hold. The research will investigate the role of "dynamic norms", which are beliefs about how people's behaviors or beliefs are changing...
This Project Grant award, totaling $191,980, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The project examines how displacement, particularly due to conflict and climate change, impacts the development of social preferences and trust in children. Through a combination of behavioral economics experiments and a randomized controlled trial involving children, adolescents, and their parents, the research aims to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $308,701 project grant to The Washington University to support collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TRUST ACROSS DIVERSE CONTEXTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD." The three-year award period runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant supports research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to contribute to scientific...
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 $150,945 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 1, 2021 for collaborative research titled "Context Dependence Across Categories: Bridging Developmental, Experimental, and Theoretical Perspectives." The research is being conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Specifically, the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on the cultural contexts and developmental outcomes of childhood exploration and interactions with nature. The $142,165 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026, will examine children's independent exploration and time spent in different environments (e.g., green spaces versus playgrounds) across two societies where such...
This $106,000 Project Grant Award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to design and optimize smart technological environments that can enhance the learning, creativity, and effectiveness of work teams, community groups, classrooms, and other collectives. The 3-year project will involve the development of large-scale online experiments and computational models to understand the parameters that drive...