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Constructing Social Minds: Coordination, Communication, and Cultural Transmission (SOMICS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Human cognition reflects the necessities of living in social groups transmitting cultural knowledge. Human minds are, richly and deeply, social minds. Working together we aim to better understand social minds by testing a new integrated theory with innovative methodologies.Joint action and communication both build and exploit common ground. At a basic level common ground is tied to shared percepti ...
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Joint action expertise: Behavioral, cognitive, and neural mechanisms for joint action learning (JAXPERTISE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

Human life is full of joint action and our achievements are, to a large extent, joint achievements that require the coordination of two or more individuals. Piano duets and tangos, but also complex technical and medical operations rely on and exist because of coordinated actions. In recent years, research has begun to identify the basic mechanisms of joint action. This work focused on simple tasks ...
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How citizens try to influence politics and why. International comparisons of movement and party politics (POLPART)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Protests in ‘new’ democracies about ‘stolen elections’, demonstrations in ‘old’ democracies against austerity measures, occupied squares all over the world against inequality and for better governance. Some argue that contentious politics gains importance and party politics declines. Is that so and why would that be? Why is it that some individuals engage in politics while others remain apathetic? ...
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Frictions in the Financial System (FRICTIONS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

"The financial crisis, since its start in 2008 has exposed enormous fractures both in the financial architecture and in the structure of the global economy. Although with some notable exceptions, the magnitude of the events caught the finance profession largely by surprise. Clearly, we have to understand better the institutional mechanism channeling savings towards the best uses of capital, and to ...
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Channels and Consequences of Knowledge Flows from Developed Economies to Central and Eastern Europe (KNOWLEDGEFLOWS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

In this project, I study how economic development is shaped by cross-country knowledge flows via trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), and other channels. Using novel micro data for several Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, I measure the quantitative importance of three channels: technical knowledge embodied in imported machinery, technical and organizational knowledge embodied in ex ...
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Behavioral Theory and Economic Applications (BEHAVIORAL THEORY)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"This proposal outlines projects to develop robust and portable theories studying the impact of psychological phenomena in economic settings. The proposed work falls in three broad research agendas.My first main agenda is to formally model and economically apply a simple observation: that when people make decisions, they do not focus equally on all attributes of their available options, and overwe ...
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Economic Allocations in Social Networks: Evidence and Theory (NETWORKS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Social networks affect many economic interactions, and the social capital embedded in them may help explain broad, macro level outcomes. A recent theory literature develops models of economic allocations in networks. But at this point, we have little evidence on which network mechanisms are most important in practice, how networks interact with markets, and how these micro forces translate into ag ...
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Representational preconditions for understanding other minds in the service of human collaboration and social learning (REPCOLLAB)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The central aim of the proposed research project is to systematically explore the empirical implications of a novel theoretical approach to the early representational preconditions and the functional structure of the mechanisms dedicated for understanding other minds. We aim to explore and shed new theoretical light on the basic cognitive and brain mechanisms of the human social mind. One of thes ...
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Regime and Society in Eastern Europe (1956 - 1989). From Extended Reproduction to Social and Political Change (RESOCEA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2016,

"The ambition of this project rests on the long-established tradition of the comparative politico-historical and interdisciplinary studies of the totalitarian regimes and on the theoretical efforts to elucidate the social dynamics and social change in Eastern Europe during the so called ""real socialism"". It will deal with the relations between regime and society in an attempt to highlight the gr ...
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Human infants' preparedness for relevance-guided learning through ostensive-referential communication (OSTREFCOM)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

A recent hypothesis (the theory of 'natural pedagogy') proposes that an important function of human ostensive-referential communication is to allow the transmission of generic (semantic) knowledge to others. The primary potential beneficiaries of such a communication system are children, who are always novices with respect to the culture they are born into. This proposal aims to explore whether an ...
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Low climate IMpact scenarios and the Implications of required Tight emission control Strategies (LIMITS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"Now and in the foreseeable future, action on climate mitigation and adaptation doesn’t seem to be sufficient to manage greenhouse gases and their impact at the scale required to achieve stringent objectives such as those compatible with the 2°C target. This project aims at carrying out a rigorous assessment of what a stringent climate policy entails, and what is needed to overcome major impedimen ...
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CReating Innovative Sustainability Pathways (CRISP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The core objective of this proposal is to identify potential paths to engaging on an integrated effort to support the transition, to a sustainable, low carbon Europe. The call text places much emphasis of using a scenario and backcasting approach that explicitly discerns individuals, organisations and the collective (societal and economic organisation), addresses the interaction of agency and stru ...
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Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System supporting Sustainable Development (EnviroGRIDS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The Black Sea Catchment is internationally known as one of ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management, which has led to severe environmental, social and economic problems. EnviroGRIDS @ Black Sea Catchment aims at building the capacities of regional stakeholders to use new international standards to gather, store, distribute, analyze, visualize and disseminate crucia ...
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Culturally Composite Elites, Regime Changes and Social Crises in Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Confessional Eastern Europe. (The Carpathian Basin and the Baltics in Comparison - cc. 1900-1950) (elites08)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The project is multi-disciplinary by character. It focuses upon socio-historical processes of the transformation and 'circulation' of educated and ruling elites in several uniquely composite (both multi-ethnic and multi-confessional) East European regional or national societies, having experienced a number of radical changes of social and political regime as well as state souvereignty in the first ...
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