Project Grant N000141812761

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant award of $131,078 to the Santa Fe Institute of Science, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING ATTITUDE FORMATION AT DIFFERENT SPATIAL SCALES," aims to advance the understanding of how geographic contexts shape the formation of attitudes and influence the quality of interpersonal interactions. The project will test three key research questions derived from an interdisciplinary...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $136,727 to the University of Chicago to conduct collaborative research on understanding attitude formation at different spatial scales. The project will examine how geographic contexts shape the formation of attitudes and influence the quality of interpersonal interactions. Specifically, it will test 3 research questions derived from an interdisciplinary...

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 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $371,469 to the Trustees of Indiana University to develop a computational model and conduct empirical studies to understand the dynamics of how people generate subjective probability forecasts under time pressure. The key objectives are to: 1) develop a computational model to predict how people's subjective probability judgments change over time as they...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $297,513 to George Mason University to conduct research exploring how scientific messages about environmental adaptation shape people's decisions, especially when their beliefs about the environment, politics, and other issues are closely connected. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year award include: Developing a new...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $358,156 to the California Institute of Technology to examine how genuine beliefs respond to information provided by knowledgeable sources. The research will develop a new mechanism to deliver information that allows testing for persuasion without needing to know participants' initial beliefs....

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $595,398 over 3 years to the University of Delaware to develop novel methods for understanding social influence diffusion through online social media. The key objectives are to establish "query-decision regression" as a principled decision-making framework for modeling influence spread, in contrast to conventional...

This $473,500 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support research at Cornell University from April 2022 through March 2025 to develop new discrete choice models that account for unobserved heterogeneity in consumer consideration sets. The researchers will establish conditions for semi-nonparametric identification of these novel models and design a maximum...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $148,477 to Penn State University to conduct research exploring how scientific messages about environmental adaptation shape people's decisions, especially when their beliefs about the environment, politics, and other issues are closely connected. The project aims to clarify why some individuals embrace adaptation measures like flood-proofing or relocating...