CAREER: The development of, and reasoning about, inequality and its rectification

职业：不平等及其纠正的发展和推理

• 批准号: 1945170
• 负责人: Nadia Chernyak
• 金额: $ 73.64万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1945170&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; development; reasoning; about; inequality

This project investigates the origins of our understanding of fairness and inequality. The first part of the project investigates how our cognitive skills shape our understanding of equity; the second aim then focuses on the specific features of inequality that young children attend to. Finally, the last aim investigates how social factors, such as experiences with systemic disadvantage, shape the development of our reasoning about inequality. This research will help pinpoint the specific stumbling blocks that children – and by extension, adults – face when reasoning about and actively rectifying inequality. Broader impacts include dissemination of the work to the local community and to scholars focused on poverty and education; cross-training a group of researchers from traditionally under-represented groups in research, technical skills, and community outreach; and collaborations with local communities to conduct this work. One of the most pervasive problems of our society is the perpetuation of unequal distribution of resources. While people recognize the pernicious effects of inequality, they face a series of biases that dictate its perpetuation, rather than its rectification. Through a series of experimental developmental studies, the research in this proposal focuses on why people have trouble rectifying inequality by investigating a) how our understanding of inequality develops in early childhood, b) the cognitive mechanisms that shape our understanding of early inequality, and c) how our social experiences and social contexts contribute to our abilities to recognize (un)fairness. The results of this work will shed light on the origins, developmental trajectories, and cognitive underpinnings of our abilities to think about inequitable resource distribution.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个项目调查了我们对公平和不平等的理解的起源。该项目的第一部分调查我们的认知技能如何塑造我们对公平的理解;第二个目标则侧重于幼儿关注的不平等的具体特征。最后，最后一个目标是研究社会因素，如系统性劣势的经验，如何塑造我们对不平等的推理的发展。这项研究将有助于查明儿童--以及延伸开来的成人--在推理和积极纠正不平等时所面临的具体障碍。更广泛的影响包括向当地社区和关注贫困和教育的学者传播这项工作;在研究、技术技能和社区外展方面交叉培训一批来自传统上代表性不足的群体的研究人员;以及与当地社区合作开展这项工作。我们社会最普遍的问题之一是资源分配不平等的长期存在。虽然人们认识到不平等的有害影响，但他们面临着一系列偏见，这些偏见决定了不平等的永久化，而不是纠正不平等。通过一系列实验性发展研究，本提案中的研究重点是通过调查a）我们对不平等的理解如何在幼儿期发展，B）塑造我们对早期不平等的理解的认知机制，以及c）我们的社会经验和社会背景如何有助于我们识别（不）公平的能力，来解决人们为什么难以纠正不平等。这项工作的结果将揭示我们思考不公平资源分配的能力的起源、发展轨迹和认知基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。