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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Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | The Hidden Costs of Intrinsic Motivation | Intrinsic motivation is championed as a benefit that people should aspire to, with little attention paid to the negative consequences. We study an interpersonal cost of high intrinsic motivation: managers are more likely to burden intrinsically motivated employees with extra work tasks.
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2024 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Sangah | Bae | Organizational Behavior | The Hidden Costs of Intrinsic Motivation | Intrinsic motivation is championed as a benefit that people should aspire to, with little attention paid to the negative consequences. We study an interpersonal cost of high intrinsic motivation: managers are more likely to burden intrinsically motivated employees with extra work tasks.
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2024 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Jack | Goncalo | Organizational Behavior | 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 School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Ifeoma | Ajunwa | Organizational Behavior | Algorithms, Big Data, and Inequality | This project has produced over $927,000 in external grants and 39 publications thus far. Research topics include algorithmic management among cultural workers, agency of data subjects, estimation of causal effects from data for counterfactual fairness and comparing compliance procedures and research proposals for non-discrimination in statistical models. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Brittany | Bond | Organizational Behavior | Organizational Interventions to Alleviate Burnout and Promote Well-Being | Can organizational interventions reduce employee burnout and promote well-being? We are planning to investigate these questions using a randomized field experiment in the setting of veterinarian clinics in the United States. |
2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Courtney | McCluney | Organizational Behavior | Implications of Racial Codeswitching on Bodily and Psychological Outcomes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | The Insight Bias: People Overestimate the Quality of Ideas Generated via Insight | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Black Employees’ Allyship Needs | In general, fulfilling relationships with coworkers can foster positive work outcomes for employees. Expanding on this broad framework, we demonstrate that when Black employees’ allyship needs are met by their white coworkers, they experience higher attachment to coworkers, higher organizational commitment, and lower turnover intentions.
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2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | An Inductive Study of Creative Idea Elaboration in Improvisational Comedy Groups. | Research finds that brainstorming groups are notoriously inefficient at generating ideas, compared to individuals working alone. This inductive, qualitative interview study aims to understand the group processes of improvisational comedy groups, and develop insights about how groups can successfully develop creative ideas in real time. |
2023-2024 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
William | Sonnenstuhl | Organizational Behavior | An International Healthcare Reform Conference: From the Whitehouse to the Workplace | 2009 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Pamela | Tolbert | Organizational Behavior | Law and Social Sciences Conference: Increasing Inclusion/Reducing Discrimination: What Works | Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. | 2014 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Emily | Zitek | Organizational Behavior | When Do People Perceive Their Positive Outcomes as Unfair? | A paper describing a series of studies funded by this grant will soon be under review. | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Brian | Rubineau | Organizational Behavior | Racial Disparities in Patient Care and the Role of Medical Training: An audit study | 2008 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Rubineau | Organizational Behavior | The coevolution of individuals and their social settings: A multi-site longitudinal study | 2010 | Fall | PI | McGill University | CCSS Grant | |
Brian | Lucas | Organizational Behavior | Moral Psychology, Social Class, and Inequality | This group brought together organizational behavior researchers interested in morality, social class, and inequality for weekly meetings and has advanced two projects on the topics of gender, race, and inequality. | 2019 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Working Group Grant | |
Ben | Rissing | Organizational Behavior | Immigrant Work Authorizations and Presidential Discourse | Rissing's 2018-19 fellowship contributed to the co-authored article "Strength from Within: Internal Mobility and the Retention of High Performers" (Organization Science), and development of two working papers relating to the government adjudication of work visas for skilled U.S. immigrants. | 2018-2019 | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Celene | Reynolds | Organizational Behavior | Sex Discrimination and Title IX Enforcement in the Academy | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Courtney | McCluney | Organizational Behavior | Corporate Responses to Racial Injustice | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | QuIRI Grant | |
Pamela | Tolbert | Organizational Behavior | Law and Social Sciences: Using Theory and Research on Discrimination in Title VII Class Action Litigation | The talks given at this conference affected a publication co-authored by Tolbert in 2012 and also laid the foundation for a 2014 conference that resulted in the special issue of ILR Review. Based on peer reviews, nine papers from the conference were published in a 2016 special issue of the ILR Review, Inequality in the Workplace. Collectively, the papers have received over 300 citations to date. |
2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Randy | Lee | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Adam | Anderson | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Sawa | Senzaki | Psychology | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Wisconsin Green Bay | CCSS Grant | |
David | Field | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Qi | Wang | Psychology | Leveraging Social Media to Facilitate Meaning Making and Post-Pandemic Mental Health in Teens | 2022 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Development Fellow | |
Cindy | Hazan | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Misha | Inniss-Thompson | Psychology | Exploring Black Girl Literacies: A Qualitative Study of Book Clubs & Identity Development | This phenomenological qualitative study explores how Black adolescent girls enact Black Girl Literacies (ways of knowing, doing, and creating to affirm themselves; (Price-Dennis et al., 2017) in a monthly book club focused on Black girl-centered young adult literature. This study will leverage focus group discussions, participant observation, and sociodemographic surveys to examine the following inquiry: what role can a book club space play in fostering the development of self-definition and critical consciousness among Black girls? |
2022 | Fall | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Anderson | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Carmen | Sanchez | Psychology | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Wicia | Fang | Psychology | Relational and Well-being Outcomes of (Non) Reciprocity in Attachment Networks | How do people fulfill their attachment needs across people in their networks, and how do people also meet the needs of others in their network? Proposed studies test novel hypotheses on how reciprocated ties confer unique benefits for individuals (security), dyads (satisfaction), and networks (status). |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | Political Phenomenology | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | QuIRI Working Group Grant | |
Jennifer | Schwade | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | The Moral Psychology of Public Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference | 2019 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Qi | Wang | Psychology | Leveraging Social Media to Facilitate Teens’ Meaning Making and Mental Health | 2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Grant Writing Support Program | |
Randy | Lee | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Adam | Pearson | Psychology | Effect of Perceived Economic Inequality on Sustainability and Collective Action | This research contributed to a first-authored publication in Climatic Change for graduate student, Julia Davydova: “Illuminating the link between perceived threat and control over climate change: the role of attributions for causation and mitigation” (Davydova, Pearson, Ballew, & Schuldt, 2018) | 2015 | Spring | Co-PI | Pomona College | CCSS Grant |
Valerie | Reyna | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | The effect of causal mechanistic explanations on perceptions of research findings | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Laura | Niemi | Psychology | Moral Values and Perceptions of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery | 2020 | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | COVID_19 Grant | ||
Katherine | Tschida | Psychology | Developmental emergence of social communication | Infant mammals produce reflexive distress vocalizations and later produce social vocalizations in response to social partners. We will characterize the emergence of social vocalizations in wild-type and autism spectrum disorder model mice, which will help identify brain mechanisms that underlie the emergence of social communication. |
2022 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Emma | Murrugarra | Psychology | How do Parents See the World? Using Virtual Reality to Assess Perception of infants’ Environments (Super-department grant) | How does becoming a parent change how we see the world? Here we propose a novel virtual reality paradigm investigating what shapes parents’ perception of the environment around their infants. We will explore cognitive mechanisms that facilitate parental decision-making surrounding infant wellbeing. |
2023 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant |
Elif | Celikors | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Investigating individual differences in the emotional and perceptual responses to visual scenes | 2021 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Pizarro | Psychology | The Positive Side of Morality: Cultural Influences on Judging Good People and Praiseworthy Acts | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Intergroup Loss Aversion | This research uses an economic model of choice behavior and psychophysiological measures of arousal to examine sensitivity to losses for racial ingroup vs. outgroup members, with a discussion of implications for racial disparities at the interpersonal and national level. |
2023 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Karl | Pillemer | Psychology | Linking Families and Community Institutions: Testing the Partners in Care Intervention | 2021 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Family Dynamics and Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: A New Model for Understanding Social Influences on the Development of Communication | 2011 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | ||
Vivian | Zayas | Psychology | Adult Attachment: Integrating Social, Cognitive, and Neurophysiological Approaches | Prior support led to an edited book, 8 papers, 3 pop press pieces, 9 chaired symposia, and 1 NSF grant. | 2007 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Marlen | Gonzalez | Psychology | The Neuroecology of Space Use, Belonging, and URM Experience in Higher Education | Submitted a discussed NIH grant, submitted and obtained IRB approval for the proposed project, began working with CCSS and Redcloud to architect a cloud data pipeline for MRI data |
2021-2022 | PI | Cornell College of Human Ecology | Faculty Fellows Program |
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