Harvard University
For Support Of The Decision Sciences Laboratory
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Amount$600,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2010
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Term36 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
Harvard’s Decision Sciences Laboratory (HDSL) is an interdisciplinary research facility, led by several distinguished social scientists*, that explores the intersection of psychology, economics, and neuroscience in an effort to better understand the pathways that shape judgment and decisionmaking. Using biometric as well as cognitive indicators, HDSL supports basic behavioral (as distinguished from brain imaging) research in human judgment and behavioral economics. At least equally important, its leaders are committed to translating this knowledge to improve the work of policymakers responsible for making high-stakes decisions. For example, HDSL will likely offer training to intelligence analysts at the Department of Homeland Security early next year. This proposed grant nicely parallels our grant for ideas42 , housed in Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and led by Sendhil Mullainathan, which applies behavioral economics to problems of poverty in developing countries as well as the United States.
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for The Lab for Democracy Renovation
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for Center for Labor and a Just Economy’s Clean Slate for Worker Power (Phase III)
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