Collaborative Research: Every participant counts: Investigating the impact of experimental language research on participants

协作研究：每个参与者都很重要：调查实验语言研究对参与者的影响

• 批准号: 2315039
• 负责人: Charlotte Vaughn
• 金额: $ 12.36万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-15 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315039&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Every; participant; counts

Experimental researchers in the social and behavioral sciences often interact with the public in two traditionally distinct capacities. In the act of doing science, they elicit participant responses in experimental studies to create knowledge and test hypotheses. At the same time, many researchers use their own knowledge and expertise to engage and educate the public about topics of public concern related to their science. In this project researchers explore the ways in which these two roles may be brought closer together, by treating each participant in an experimental study as an opportunity for public engagement, examining the messages (positive or negative) that participants already deduce from common experimental paradigms, and exploring the role that improved science communication methods can have on engaging and educating participants. The work has the potential to substantially increase one type of broader impact of social and behavioral research – public outreach and engagement.The researcher team centers this investigation in the field of linguistics and focuses on commonly used speaker perception tasks. In the first phase of the project, the team develops a Linguistics and Language Ideology (LLI) survey instrument designed to test the public’s standing ideas around language and the field of linguistics. In the second phase, participants complete a series of speaker perception experiments testing how responses to this survey are impacted by different methodological aspects of the experiment. Participants across the studies are debriefed using innovative and engaging techniques. The results of this project not only highlight how specific methodological choices impact participants’ understanding of language and linguistics, but also whether and how science communication with participants can mitigate any negative effects, and actively produce positive outcomes.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.

社会科学的实验研究人员经常以两个传统的能力与公众相关，以创造知识和测试假设的反应可以使这些绕组的方式更加接近，研究了已经从常见的实验范式中推断出的信息（正面或负面）的参与者，改善了科学方法可以使社会和行为研究的更广泛影响 - 公众研究。外展和英语中心在项目的第一阶段，在项目的第一阶段，在ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ofocu ses。语言学在第二阶段的f演讲者的观念受到了实验的不同方法。以及与参与者的科学沟通如何减轻任何负面影响，并积极产生积极的成果。该奖项反映了NSF'Stututs通过使用Toundatual功绩和ER影响审查标准来评估值得支持。