Search our database of all past CCSS grantees, fellows, collaborative projects, and working group grants.
First Name | Last Name | Department / School Sort descending | Project Title | Abstract/Impact Statement | Year | Semester | PI/Co-PI | College | Grant Type |
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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 |
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 | ||
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 |
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 |
Sawa | Senzaki | Psychology | Cultural differences in event perception: Neurophysiological measures and developmental origins | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | University of Wisconsin Green Bay | 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 | |
Jennifer | Schwade | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | 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 |
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 |
Carmen | Sanchez | Psychology | Ordering Effects and Cognitive Bias in Law | 2016 | 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 | |
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 |
R. Nathan | Spreng | Psychology | Neurocognitive Aging and Wisdom | 2015-2016 | PI | McGill University | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
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 | |
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 |
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 | |
Mary | Elson | Psychology | The developmental origins of sensitive parenting | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | Implicit Nationalism and Prejudice: Testing effects on behavior | 2011 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Thomas | Gilovich | Psychology | Why So Many People Find Informal Conversation So Stressful Despite Its Many Benefits | A write-up of 9 surveys and laboratory studies supported by this award has been submitted for publication in one of the top journals in social psychology. The most logistically challenging study was put on hold because of the pandemic, but it will be rebooted as a zoom-based study in two weeks. | 2018 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Carol Lynne | Krumhansl | Psychology | Social Affiliation and Music-Induced Synchrony in Dance | Prior support led to 1 paper and two papers in preparation, 2 pop press pieces, 2 chaired symposia, and 3 posters (awarded the SPSP Student Poster Award (1st place). | 2016 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Felicity | Frinsel | Psychology | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Seeing ‘Them’ as Less Human: Causes and Consequences of Whites’ Perceptual Dehumanization of Racial Minorities | This grant supported research accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology with one publication in progress and another accepted in principle. Neuroimaging for this project has been delayed due to covid but will resume this semester. |
2020-2021 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | 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 College of Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Taking a Computational Approach to Implicit Social Cognition | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Social Influence and Reward Learning in Discriminatory Decision Making | 2017 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Amy | Krosch | Psychology | Can the Attentional Boost Effect Mitigate Racial Bias? | 2017 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Benedek | Kurdi | Psychology | Taking a Computational Approach to Implicit Social Cognition | 2020 | Spring | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Socially Guided Learning in the Transition from Babbling to Words | 2008-2009 | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | Faculty Fellows Program | ||
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Structures of Social Interaction in Language Acquisition | 2006 | Fall | Co-PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | Learning to talk, learning to sing: A comparative approach to discovering mechanisms of infant learning from social interaction | 2013 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Elizabeth | Adkins-Regan | Psychology | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Michael | Goldstein | Psychology | The developmental origins of sensitive parenting | 2020 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Shimon | Edelman | Psychology | Dissociating the Effects of Attention and Expectation on Visual Conscious Perception | An NSF grant proposal was submitted, but did not receive funding. Papers based on the research are still in the works. | 2016 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant |
Morten | Christiansen | Psychology | Using Eye-tracking to Investigate Real-Time Statistical Learning | 2021 | Spring | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
Melissa | Ferguson | Psychology | The Implicit Operation of Ideology | 2008 | Fall | PI | Cornell College of Arts and Sciences | CCSS Grant | |
David | Dunning | Psychology | 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 Arts and Sciences | Collaborative Project | |
Marya | Besharov | Organizational Behavior | Creating Change from Within or Building an Alternative? The Role of Intermediaries in Developing Local Food Systems | 2019 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Marya | Besharov | Organizational Behavior | Managing Strategic Paradoxes: A Longitudinal Study of Leadership in a Social Enterprise | 2009 | Spring | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
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 | |
Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | Understanding Our Influence Over Others’ Moral Decisions | Studies conducted as part of this research project were published in, "With a little help from my friends (and strangers): closeness as a moderator of the underestimation-of-compliance effect," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019. | 2015 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant |
Vanessa | Bohns | Organizational Behavior | Prosocial Behaviors in the Digital Age | This team has generated over $900,000 in grants and 45 publications thus far, including 1 book. Research topics include the Social Media TestDrive project, fact-checking dynamics on Reddit, diverse participation in online education, underestimating others' willingness to help, and encouraging bystander interventions on social media. | 2018-2021 | Co-PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Collaborative Project | |
Sean | Fath | Organizational Behavior | Testing interventions to encourage self-blinding | 2020 | Fall | PI | Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations | CCSS Grant | |
Olga | Khessina | 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 | |
Laura | Giurge | Organizational Behavior | The Social Psychology Behind “Always On” Work Culture | 2021 | Spring | Co-PI | London Business School | 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 |
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