REU Site: Developing Social Minds

REU 网站：培养社交思维

• 批准号: 2051064
• 负责人: Katherine McAuliffe
• 金额: $ 33.03万
• 依托单位: Boston College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-15 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2051064&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Developing; Social; Minds

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. It has both scientific and societal benefits, and integrates research and education. This REU Site provides an intensive summer research program for first-generation undergraduate students, racial and ethnic minorities, and veterans, who have had limited access to hands-on research experiences. This program will support them financially, intellectually, and socially while they work on research projects aimed at understanding the developing social mind. Students will be involved in research that will have far-reaching implications—for instance, mitigating gender stereotypes in STEM, understanding the evolutionary origins of social learning, and increasing diversity and representation in psychological samples. The program will provide a network of support for each student, through pairing each student with three mentors (peer, senior lab member, and faculty member). By involving students from diverse backgrounds, this REU Site program stands to benefit Psychology and other STEM fields: as science only stands to gain from drawing on a broader talent pool and increasing the diversity of ideas. This REU site program includes four labs at Boston College. The program recruits students from across the country who are underrepresented in psychological research to participate in a 10-week intensive hands-on research program in social cognitive development. The program has three main goals: to provide students with (1) depth and breadth in developmental research; (2) a multi-tiered mentorship network; and (3) sustained support in academia and beyond. Students will gain in-depth, hands-on experience in all aspects of developmental research while being exposed to the breadth of social cognitive research through interactions with other labs and outside speakers. Students will conduct cutting-edge research, involving infants, children, adults, and even nonhuman animals (dogs), that will greatly contribute to our broader knowledge of human development given the interdisciplinary nature of the work being done by the four labs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目由 SBE 理事会的本科生研究体验 (REU) 站点计划资助，它具有科学和社会效益，并将研究和教育融为一体，为第一代本科生提供密集的夏季研究项目。少数族裔和退伍军人，他们获得实践研究经验的机会有限，该项目将为他们提供经济、智力和社交方面的支持，同时学生将参与旨在了解发展中的社会思维的研究项目。研究将会有深远的影响——例如，减轻 STEM 中的性别刻板印象、了解社会学习的进化起源以及增加心理样本的多样性和代表性。该计划将通过为每个学生配备三名导师来为每个学生提供支持网络。 （同行、高级实验室成员和教员）通过让来自不同背景的学生参与进来，这个 REU 站点项目将使心理学和其他 STEM 领域受益：因为科学只能从更广泛的人才库和增加人才多样性中获益。这个 REU 站点程序。该项目包括波士顿学院的四个实验室，招募来自全国各地心理学研究领域代表性不足的学生参加为期 10 周的社会认知发展强化实践研究项目。 (1) 发展研究的深度和广度；(2) 多层次的指导网络；以及 (3) 学术界及其他领域的持续支持，学生将在发展研究的各个方面获得深入的实践经验。暴露于广泛的通过与其他实验室和外部演讲者的互动进行社会认知研究，学生将进行涉及婴儿、儿童、成人甚至非人类动物（狗）的前沿研究，鉴于跨学科的性质，这将极大地促进我们对人类发展的更广泛了解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。