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 National Science
Foundation Award #0551330 |
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Risk Communication Strategies: Evolution, Evidence, Experience |
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| Investigator(s): |
William Tucker (PI)
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| Sponsor: |
Applied Biomathematics Inc, NY 11733 6317514350
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| Start Date/Expiration Date |
2006-04-01 to 2007-03-31 (amended 2006-03-31) |
| Awarded Amount to Date: |
$36,071 |
| Abstract: Rapid progress is being made in understanding how the human brain responds to risk and uncertainty in several distinct scientific disciplines. Unfortunately, the lack of interaction between risk researchers across fields has hampered the spread of important new insights. Strategies for Risk Communication: Evolution, Evidence and Experience, is a symposium bringing together scholars in risk communication, risk perception, the evolutionary social sciences, and neuroscience and functional brain imaging. These researchers will explain recent findings and emerging ideas regarding the mental calculators that humans use to reckon about risks, explore their evolutionary origins, and examine their proximate neurological bases. Attendees will include ten invited speakers and up to 80 other participants. This cross-disciplinary interaction will encourage collaborations between already productive scientists, foster new ideas, promote low-cost synergism between laboratories and researchers with complimentary capacities, and make current research results accessible to policy makers and the general public. Symposium proceedings will form the kernel of an edited volume intended to advance the frontier of risk communication science and provide an active agenda for future collaborative research. |
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| NSF Org: |
SES - Division of Social and Economic Sciences |
| Award Number: |
0551330 |
| Award Instrument: |
Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Robert E. O'Connor
SES Division of Social and Economic Sciences
SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
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| NSF Program(s): |
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE INITIAT, DECISION RISK & MANAGEMENT SCI |
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| Program Reference Code(s): |
UNASSIGNED, 0000 |
| Program Element Code(s): |
1699
DECISION RISK & MANAGEMENT SCI, 1321 |
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