Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort ascending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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Luo | Zuo | Johnson Graduate School of Management | On the Causal Effect of Income Taxes on Corporate Risk-Taking and Hedging: Evidence from State Income Tax Charges | This study won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting. It was published in a top-three accounting journal – the Journal of Accounting Research in 2017. It was also featured in the Atlantic. | 2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant |
Wesley | Sine | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship | This project garnered over 2 million in funding, produced over 100 publications on topics including entrepreneurial team evolution; creativity evaluation; intellectual property rights; and scholarly originality. It was a catalyst for the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM degree and the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor. | 2013-2016 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Collaborative Project | |
Kristina | Rennekamp | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Novel Statistical Methods for Experimental Research Learning Group | This group brought Andrew Hayes to campus for a conditional process analysis workshop attended by faculty and PhD students. The methods from the workshop have been utilized in at least 3 publications, thus far. | 2019 | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | Working Group Grant | |
Christopher | Marquis | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Kunyuan | Qiao | Johnson Graduate School of Management | Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business | CCSS Grant | |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development, Sociology | The Second Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference: Improving the State of Americans | A book was published based on the conference: Wethington, Elaine and Rachel Dunifon. 2012. Research for the Public Good: Applying the Methods of Translational Research to Improve Human Health and Well Being. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. |
2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Elaine | Wethington | Human Development, Sociology | Marriage and Re-partnering in the Second Half of Life | This project contributed to multiple papers and chapters on the potential contributions of ageism to social isolation and loneliness among older adults and its impact on health. | 2014 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Daniel | Casasanto | Human Development, Psychology | Toward Preventing Racial Bias: The Role of Dialect | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Spatial Language and the Development of Spatial Cognition | This project formed the basis of a NSF grant, funded in 2018, and a major publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2020). | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Using VR to Explore Young Children's Transfer of Learning | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Developing a Concept of Choice | Tamar Kushnir spent her 2013 Fellowship discovering how young children learn about the social world. Her fellowship resulted in three empirical papers and a book chapter on children's social learning and moral cognition, and two theoretical reviews on rational learning in childhood. The papers from her 2013 year are some of her most impactful and cited works. | 2012-2013 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Daniel | Casasanto | Human Development | Revolutionizing Assessment of Children's Early Numerical Abilities with Portable EEG | 2018 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Marianella | Casasola | Human Development | Cross-linguistic Differences in Infants' Ability to Learn Labels | Led to publications in Developmental Psychology and the Journal of Psychology: General plus funding of an NSF grant. |
2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Marlen | Gonzalez | Human Development | Neural Instantiation of Physical and Social Nutrients | This project will test the overlapping and unique representations of social and physical resources in the brain using partner hand holding and a tasteless carbohydrate. |
2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Laura Staum | Casasanto | Human Development | Toward Preventing Racial Bias: The Role of Dialect | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neurogenetic Sources of Individual Variation in Sensitivity to the Environment | Anderson’s lab collected data through behavioral assessment of sensitivity to emotional cues, findings of which have highlighted a distinction between emotional reactivity to a current event and the tendency to embed emotional events into memory. He received a second CU grant for the project. |
2015 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Effect of Gossip on Children's Well-being and Belonging | 2020 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Claire | Dush | Human Development | The Evolving Family: Family Processes, Contexts, and the Life Course of Children | This research project was instrumental in the founding and development of the Cornell Population Center. The Cornell Population Center is an university-wide intellectual hub for demographic research and training at Cornell University. | 2004-2007 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Will | Hobbs | Human Development | Training Data for Encoding Social and Political Texts | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neural and Behavioral Differences in Initiation and Perserverance in Effortful Behavior | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Who knows best: Preschoolers’ causal learning from experts in light of their own play experience | NSF award resulting from pilot data and subsequently 5 high impact publications, 10 conference presentations, trained undergraduate/graduate researchers. | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Eve | DeRosa | Human Development | Influence of Body State on Cognition and Emotion in Shaping Environmental Interactions: Implications for Aging | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Richard | Depue | Human Development | Psychobiology of the Formation of Social Bonds | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Moncrieff | Cochran | Human Development | Evaluating an Employer-Supported Child Care Program: An Ecological Approach | The funding from this grant helped to support graduate student research. |
2006 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Adam | Anderson | Human Development | Neural Instantiation of Physical and Social Nutrients | This project will test the overlapping and unique representations of social and physical resources in the brain using partner hand holding and a tasteless carbohydrate. |
2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Lin | Bian | Human Development | A role-model intervention to motivate young girls in science | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Tamar | Kushnir | Human Development | Revising Anti-Vaccination Beliefs During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Prosociality During COVID-19 | 2020 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Remember COVID-19: Enhancing Post-Pandemic Mental Health in Diverse Populations Through the Lens of Memory | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Pilot Grant | |
Will | Hobbs | Human Development | The Effects of Changes in Personal, Societal, and Political Contexts on Well-Being and Everyday Activities: Design and analysis of open-ended surveys | This project will study open-ended survey data for tracking and explaining well-being before and after major personal and societal changes. It will construct and validate measures of well-being using replicable artificial intelligence and create multiple measures from a single open-ended response to increase cost-effectiveness. |
2022-2023 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Jane | Mendle | Human Development | Physical and Psychological Change Across the Menstrual Cycle | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | How Does New Medical Information Affect the Use of High-Risk Procedures? | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Reut | Shachnai | Human Development | A role-model intervention to motivate young girls in science | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Felix | Thoemmes | Human Development | Causal mediation analysis in the presence of latent heterogeneity | This grant laid some of the foundation for a federal grant application (IES). This grant was submitted, but unfortunately was not funded, and a resubmission was not attempted. Instead a different research line was submitted and funded by IES. | 2012 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Karl | Pillemer | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Corinna | Loeckenhoff | Human Development | Age and Intertemporal Choice Among Aversive Experiences | This pilot study resulted in an external grant (R21 AG043741 NIH/NIA. “Age Differences in Preferences for and Responses to Temporal Sequences” and multiple journal publications. | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Karl | Pillemer | Human Development | Grandparent-Grandchild Interactions in Custodial Grandparent Families | This funding supported a study of 60 families in which a grandparent was raising their teenaged grandchild. This study ultimately resulted in a book, titled “You’ve Always Been There for Me”, which explores the unique strengths and needs of such families. | 2008 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Barbara | Lust | Human Development | Contrasting Language in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and in Healthy Elderly: Stage Two of a Pilot Study | 2009 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Judith | Ross-Bernstein | Human Development | Poverty, Equity and State Policy: The Move Toward Universal Pre-kindergarten in New York State Rural School Districts | This grant allowed deep and multi-method exploration of the equity implications of the implementation of Universal PreK in NYS. We also discovered a negative impact of UPK programming on infant and toddler care in rural communities. This led to conference papers, a Hatch grant, and Sipple, Casto & McCabe (2020). Child Care Deserts in New York State: Factors Related to the Community Capacity to Care for Children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. | 2008 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Exploring the Role of Culture in Event Segmentation | This award funded research that led to several presentations by the authors, the publication of an article (Swallow, & Wang, accepted. Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition.), and has been used in support of additional applications for funding. | 2015 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Steven | Robertson | Human Development | Developmental Origins of Childhood Attention Problems | This interdisciplinary collaboration (developmental psychology and mathematics) validated a new brain-based method for measuring infant attention (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012, 109:11460) and a novel dynamical model of infant visual foraging behavior (Dev Psychobiol 2014, 56:1129) to uncover early predictors of childhood attention problems. | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Qi | Wang | Human Development | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Reducing the adverse effects of prenatal maternal stress on child neurodevelopment in low-income African-American sample | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | Gist in Criminal Adjudiction: Testing the Effects of Mental Representation on Juror Deliberations and Verdicts | We investigated how juries decide on monetary damages in civil cases through the process of converting gist representations into numerical damage judgments as predicted by Fuzzy-Trace Theory. Since 2016, the project led to an NSF grant as well as 8 peer-reviewed publications and 12 presentations. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | Fuzzy-Trace Theory and the Law: Testing a Theoretical Model of Juror Damage Awards | Investigations spanned the psychology of commission of crimes to jury deliberation and sentencing including criminal and non-criminal risky decisions in adolescents and adults, risk taking and crime in the brain, and decision processes in psychopathy, ultimately leading to 17 publications and 19 presentations. | 2012 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
bethany | Ojalehto | Human Development | Cognitive Drivers of Environmental DeCornell College of Computing and Information Scienceion Making: Mobilizing Indigenous Ecocentric Conceptual Perspectives in Diverse Contexts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Valerie | Reyna | Human Development | Judgment, Decision Making, and Social Behavior | This 12-person project procured about 10 million dollars in funding and produced a record number of 256 publications, including 5 books and 225 peer-reviewed articles on the neuroscience of risk, adult attachment, the decision-making of judges and juries, behavioral economics, happiness metrics, and political representation. | 2009-2012 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Collaborative Project | |
Nathan | Spreng | Human Development | Brain Network Dynamics of Goal-Directed Cognition and Behavior Across the Adult Life Span | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Anthony | Ong | Human Development | Chronic Pain, Stress, and Resilience in Later Adulthood | Led to one journal publication, one book chapter, and a conference presentation. | 2007 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Jane | Mendle | Human Development | Secular Trends in Puberty and Mental Health | Jane Mendleís time at ISS helped her complete two journal articles, write a grant proposal funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child and Human Development, and submit a proposal for a textbook on Developmental Psychopathology that will be published by Macmillan. | 2015-2016 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program |
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