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Purpose
 
  The CBDR Small Grants Program was created in the spring of 2005 to support the high quality work in behavioral decision research.  
     
Guidelines
 
  Proposal:
The maximum length for the text of a proposal is 1,000 words, excluding budget and bibliography. Proposals should briefly outline the basic rationale of the research, the question under study, and the methods and analytic approach to be employed. Proposals should be submitted via electronic mail to the Small Grants Program of the CBDR (cbdr-lab@andrew.cmu.edu) putting the words "Grant application" in the subject line of the message. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, on a rolling basis.

Budget:
Representative categories of expenditure include payment to subjects in experiments and research-related expenses (such as photocopying, telephone, or postage). Proposals may include requests for research assistance. However, because collecting one's own data is such an important learning experience, the CBDR will only reluctantly consider providing funding for research assistants to help doctoral students with their data collection. The grant cannot be used as income for any researchers who will be co-authors on the project. If equipment is required to run the study, such purchase may be considered only if the proposal details attempts to use existing resources on campus and on the condition that any purchased equipment becomes the property of the Center.  
The more modest the budget, the greater the probability of funding.  A budget that appears to be excessive will be grounds for rejecting a proposal, and the maximum amount for any individual grant is $2500.

Eligibility:
Applicants must be doctoral students or faculty members at Carnegie Mellon University. Priority will be given to applications from doctoral students, CBDR affiliates, and projects without alternative sources of funding (such as that provided by senior faculty co-authors). Students must be supported by a note from a faculty member who is a CBDR affiliate, commenting briefly on the merits of both the project and the investigator. This note of support should be sent directly by the faculty member to cbdr-lab@andrew.cmu.edu.

Summary Reporting:
One year after receiving the grant, investigators must send a final short report (no more than 500 words) to the Center along with copies of all research papers supported by the award. Grants have a term of one year.

 
Previous Recipients
 
     
 
Recipient   Project Title   Date
         
Jessica Wisdom   "Making Calories Count: Information Format and Snack Choice "   February 2009
         
Leslie John   "Survey of questionable research practices"   February 2009
         
Coreen Farrisl   "Women’s Sexual Decisions in the Context of Unwanted Sex"   November 2008
         
Peter Stuettgen   "Depreciation of Favors"   October 2008
         
Jessica Wisdom   "Promoting Healthy Choices: Information vs. Convenience"   October 2008
         
Nathaniel Peterson   "Beyond self-preference: A probability weighting bias in the domain of others"   August 2008
         
Meng Zhu   "Integration of Inconsistent Information"   June 2008
         
Francesca Gino   "The Robin Hood Effect"   June 2008
         
Eva Buechel       June 2008
         
Uriel Haran   "Self-esteem and the endowment effect "   April 2008
         

Sean Eack

  "Social Cognition and Decision Deficits in Schizophrenia"   April 2008
         
Kimberly Ling   "Effects of sadness on information search and use "   April 2008
         
Tamar Krishnamurti   "The impact of alcohol consumption on decision making competence"   March 2008
         
John Hamman   "Advice and coordination problems "   March 2008
         
Alexander Davis   "Dictator games in negative goods "   March 2008
         
Francesca Gino   "The influence of others' unethical behavior "   March 2008
         
Sam Swift   "The subjective utility costs of negotiation"   February 2008
         
Elif Incekara Hafalir   "The impact of credit card payment on spending"   January 2008
         
Francesca Gino   "Advice giving"   January 2008
         
Christopher A. Harle   "Risk Information Processing and Perceptual Updating in the Context of Web-Based Risk Calculators"   December 2007
         
Young Euh Huh   "Social Influence on Choice under Uncertainty"   October 2007
         
Paul Litvak   "Sunk costs and buffet consumption"   October 2007
         
Eva Buechel   "Motivation and Affective Forecasting"   October 2007
         
Emily Haisley and Cynthia Cryder   "The effect of probabilistic incentives on motivation"   September 2007
         
Alexander Davis   "Serial Order Effects as a Product of Biased Recall"   August 2007
         
Tamar Krishnamurti   "The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Risk and Benefit Perception"   June 2007
         
Kimberly Ling and Francesca Gino   "The Effects of Incidental Emotions on Advice Seeking and Taking"   May 2007
         
Francesca Gino   "The Beauty Premium in Negotiation: The Effects of Gender and Attractiveness"   April 2007
         
Jessica Wisdom   "The Effects of Point-to-Purchase Calorie Information on Consumer Judgments and Food Choices"   April 2007
         
Cynthia Cryder   "How Beliefs about Emotion Influence Economic Decisions (2)"   March 2007
         
Bill Mangan   "The Incidental Effects of Sadness on the Planning Fallacy"   March 2007
         
Seunghee Han   "Shared Experience"   March 2007
         
Zachariah Sharek and Francesca Gino   "Correspondence Bias in Performance Appraisal: Why Succeeding at an Easy Task is a Recipe for Success"   February 2007
         
Katherine Walker-Smith   "The Emotional Impact of Reading Counter-Attitudinal Opinions"   October 2006
         
Erin Krupka   "Testing a Model of Norms"   April 2006
         
Cynthia Cryder   "How Beliefs about Emotion Influence Economic Decisions"   April 2006
         
Kerry Reynolds   "Diabetes Care Decisions Among Adolescents"   January 2006
         
Lei Lai   "Competence Versus Warmth: It Depends Who Views Whom"   November 2005
         
Liqing Zhang   "A Motivational Basis for Self-serving Judgement of Fairness in Negotiation"   November 2005
         
Scott Rick   "The Differential Effects of Token Payment Systems on Spendthrifts and Tightwads"   October 2005
         
Scott Rick  
"Inequity Aversion"
  June 2005
         
Julia Bear  
“Evaluative feedback and initiation of negotiation: Effects of causal attributions and sex”
 

May 2005

 
     
     


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