Research Training Group on the Role of Cognition in Collective Political Decision Making

该奖项为建立“认知在集体政治决策中的作用”研究培训小组提供资金。教师小组由俄亥俄州立大学和全国其他一些机构的政治科学家和心理学家组成，他们将为这项培训工作组建一个“隐形学院”。RTG的核心将是每年夏天在俄亥俄州立大学举行为期6周的年度研讨会。研讨会将探讨认知和政治在定义和发展社会问题解决方案中的作用。该基金将为研究生和博士后研修生提供津贴，支付研修生的部分研究费用，并支付其他研究和学术机构的研究人员参加夏季研讨会的费用。机构承诺将支付学生在俄亥俄州立大学的学费，允许教师花时间组织夏季研讨会，将支付研讨会的部分费用，并将确保在国家科学基金支持终止后一些实习生职位的继续。虽然许多政治决策是由群体做出的，但试图理解决策过程的心理学家传统上侧重于个人对问题的定义和解决方案，而政治科学家则侧重于权力和控制的作用，而不是认知的作用。本培训小组将探讨这两种方法之间相对被忽视的接口。俄亥俄州立大学教师正在进行的相关研究包括调查创造性在外交政策决策中的作用，调查在决策中对结果的预期的调整，以及调查社区卫生委员会在决策中个人议程如何成为群体议程。额外的研究课题和专业知识将来自暑期研讨会教师的外部成员。

This award provides funds for the establishment of a Research Training Group in the Role of Cognition in Collective Political Decision Making. The faculty group is a mixture of Political Scientists and Psychologists at Ohio State University and at a number of other institutions throughout the country who will form an "Invisible College" for the purpose of this training effort. The centerpiece of the RTG will be an annual workshop to be held each summer for 6 weeks at Ohio State University. The workshop will explore the role of cognition and politics in the definition and development of solutions to societal problems. The funds will provide stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees, will defray part of the cost of the trainees' research, and to defray the costs of participation in the summer workshops by investigators from other research and academic institutions. Institutional commitments will pay student tuition at Ohio State, allow the faculty to devote time to organization of the summer workshop, will defray a portion of the cost of the workshop and will insure continuation of some trainee positions after the termination of NSF support. Although many political decisions are made by groups, psychologists trying to understand the decision-making process have traditionally focussed on the definition of problems and solutions by individuals, while political scientists have focussed on the role of power and control rather than that of cognition. This training group will explore this relatively neglected interface between these two approaches. Examples of relevant research being pursued by the Ohio State faculty include investigation of the role of creativity in foreign policy decision making, of adjustments of outcome expectation in decision making, and of how individual agendas become group agendas in the decision making by community health boards. Additional research topics and expertise will come from the outside membership of the summer workshop faculty.