Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.

The T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience (SDN) is directed by Colin Camerer, the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics. This Center studies how human brains make decisions as individuals, and in groups and during collective action, where knowledge and actions of other people influence how the brain computes social influence. The SDN approach is highly computational—that is, we use mathematical algorithms to approximately describe how people are perceiving the world, processing information, and computing beliefs and valuations in order to make choices. Knowing where in the brain these neural circuits are located enables us to do causal studies (e.g. disrupting brain activity to see how behavior changes) and understand the computational basis of psychiatric disorders.

Results from three studies that examined 1918 U.S. adults show that financial exploitation risk is heightened by a complex interplay of sociodemographic, health, cognitive, and psychosocial vulnerabil...

Results from three studies that examined 1918 U.S. adults show that financial exploitation risk is heightened by a complex interplay of sociodemographic, health, cognitive, and psychosocial vulnerabil...