Project Grant N000141010670

This $163,588 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research exploring how individuals learn about situations and personality traits, and how that learning informs their decision-making and moral reasoning. The research team at the University of Texas at Dallas is leveraging behavioral methods, neuroimaging techniques, and computational modeling to (1) identify the neural and cognitive...

This $749,977 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research at Georgetown University to identify the neural basis of other-oriented decisions and altruism. Over a three-year period, the researchers will conduct behavioral studies and functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine brain activity in corticolimbic circuits related to altruism. The project aims to test whether comparable brain circuits...

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 $550,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Regents of the University of Michigan to fund research on the neural mechanisms underlying conflict resolution. The research aims to: 1) validate a computational model of the response preparation process for automatic and goal-directed responding using physiological measurements; 2) compare the model against prior sequential sampling models; 3)...

The Department of State Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations awarded a $2.96 million cooperative agreement to Conflict Dynamics International Inc. to improve the negotiation-specific capabilities of Sudanese civilian leaders directly engaged in the political dialogue process from September 2022 to September 2023. This award was made under the Conflict and Stabilization Operations federal grant program (CFDA 19.121), which aims to strengthen U.S. national security by breaking cycles of...

This Project Grant award of $160,000.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to support an early career scientist investigating moral curiosity. The project, conducted under the sponsorship of Drs. Liane Young and Gregg Sparkman at Boston College, seeks to develop a foundational understanding of moral curiosity, including its function in daily life, what makes it a unique motivating force, and whether it supports...

The Department of State's Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations (CSO) awarded a $2,466,250 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 19.121 - Conflict and Stabilization Operations) to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to build social cohesion between at-risk groups in northern Ghana and northern Cote d'Ivoire. The award aims to improve equitable access to livelihoods in communities hosting refugees and asylum seekers in these regions. This 12-month award, which replaces a prior grant, will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to understand how the brain supports decision-making processes. The three-year grant, awarded under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to identify neural features that provide information about the decision-making process, build decoders to predict decisions, and develop a closed-loop...

The National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program has awarded the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) a $319,541 project grant for "Collaborative Research: Causal Structures: Experiments and Machine Learning." This 3-year research project aims to understand how economic agents develop subjective causal models and narratives to interpret information and make decisions. The researchers will conduct a series of experiments to...

The University of Illinois was awarded a $199,994 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to conduct research on ethics in violence research. Specifically, the university will investigate the impacts on participants and staff of participating in research about violence, with the goal of informing ethical decision-making. Key products include a best practices handbook combining data and practical suggestions to minimize harm and...