Social Circle Panel for Studying the Accuracy of Social Judgements

研究社会判断准确性的社交圈小组

• 批准号: 1560592
• 负责人: Mirta Galesic
• 金额: $ 8.98万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560592&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Circle; Panel; Studying; Accuracy

This research project will examine the feasibility, challenges, and potential solutions to collecting valid and reliable data about how people's judgments of their social environments correspond to objective indicators about those environments. The literature in social psychology suggests that human social cognition is fraught with a host of cognitive and motivational biases that are difficult to explain within a coherent theoretical framework. In contrast, research in other fields studying human social behavior as well as some studies in the area of social cognition suggest that people are well attuned to their immediate social environments and that apparent biases may be caused by methodological problems. The data collected in this pilot project will inform this debate and help researchers from psychology, sociology, computational social science, and other fields build more coherent models of cognitive processes underlying social judgments. Many public educational programs rely on spread of knowledge and behaviors through people's networks. Project findings regarding the accuracy of human social judgments will have implications for those programs. The data will be archived in the public repository Open Science Collaboration.This research project will test the feasibility of building an innovative methodological tool called the social circle panel to study the accuracy of people's judgments about the presence of different beliefs and behaviors in their social environments. Social circles will be defined by the frequency of contact. The online panel will aim to include participants with diverse sociodemographic characteristics as well as members of their social circles or personal networks. The panel will enable both the elicitation of subjective judgments of beliefs and behaviors in individuals' social circles, and the evaluation of those judgments against objective data collected from the members of their social circles. It also will enable measurement of the stability of people's judgments over time and the investigation of whether changes in one's social circle are reflected in one's judgments. Building the panel will require dealing with a number of methodological challenges ranging from biased samples to panel contamination. The data produced by this pilot study will be useful for researchers who wish to use similar tools to understand cognitive processes underlying network effects.

该研究项目将研究有关人们对社会环境的判断如何与有关这些环境的客观指标相对应的有效和可靠数据的可行性，挑战和潜在解决方案。 社会心理学中的文献表明，人类的社会认知充满了许多认知和动机偏见，这些偏见在连贯的理论框架内很难解释。相比之下，在研究人类社会行为以及社会认知领域的一些研究的其他领域的研究表明，人们非常适合其直接的社会环境，并且明显的偏见可能是通过方法论问题引起的。 该试点项目中收集的数据将为这场辩论提供信息，并帮助心理学，社会学，计算社会科学和其他领域的研究人员建立了更一致的社会判断认知过程模型。 许多公共教育计划依靠人们的网络传播知识和行为。 有关人类社会判断准确性的项目发现将对这些计划产生影响。 数据将在公共存储库开放科学协作中存档。本研究项目将测试建立一种创新的方法论工具的可行性，称为社交圈小组，以研究人们对社交环境中不同信念和行为存在的判断的准确性。 社交圈将由接触频率定义。 在线小组将旨在包括具有不同社会人口统计学特征的参与者以及其社交界或个人网络的成员。该小组将既可以启发个人社交界的信念和行为的主观判断，以及对从其社会圈子成员收集的客观数据的评估。 它还可以衡量人们随着时间的推移判断的稳定性，并在社交圈中的变化是否反映在一个人的判断中。 构建面板将需要应对从偏见样本到面板污染的许多方法论上的挑战。 这项试验研究产生的数据将对希望使用类似工具来了解网络效应的认知过程的研究人员有用。