Decision Making and Emotion Regulation in Life-Span Transitions

描述(由申请者提供)：人们越来越有兴趣利用跨学科的视角来确定生命周期中的关键目标和转折点，这些目标和转折点为行为改变创造独特的机会，以改善健康和福祉。这一应用程序的目的是发展独特的跨学科研究团队，能够利用伯克利校区的基础和应用研究优势来开展关于行为变化的创新研究。为了支持这一目标，我们建议与来自经济学、神经科学、心理学和公共卫生的知名学者举行两次跨学科会议，重点讨论两个关键的人生转折期(青春期和晚年)的决策和情绪调节。第一次会议将侧重于基础研究，第二次会议将侧重于应用研究。将伯克利以外的知名学者聚集在这两个会议上，将使我们能够受益于他们的专业知识，并帮助我们确定跨学科的行为变化研究的关键问题。我们之所以关注青春期和晚年，是因为它们是人生轨迹的关键转折点，为未来的发展设定了轨迹。生命周期中的这两个点有重要的相似之处(例如，重大的生物和社会变革时期)，但很少被放在一起看待。我们专注于决策和情绪调节，因为它们：(A)涉及相似的神经系统；(B)在青春期和晚年经历重大重组；(C)相互影响；(D)预测行为变化的结果；以及(E)已成为经济学、神经科学、心理学和公共卫生的重要课题。我们利用复杂的神经生物学、认知、情感、社会和背景过程，这些过程超出了个别学科的范围。这一难得的跨学科对话机会将导致(A)确定跨越不同学科的关键概念问题，(B)开发新的假设，以及(C)交流关于有希望的科学方法的知识。我们提议的会议形式反映了我们希望促进跨学科交流、建立研究合作并利用会议的协同效应来提供支持的愿望，因为这些问题是为未来的拨款申请做准备而采用的跨学科方法。为了增加知识产量和培训效益，我们将特别努力邀请来自不同学科的初级学者参与拟议的活动，让他们有机会从事跨学科的网络和专业工作。 两会上的社会化。这个项目的长期意义在于它对建立跨学科研究团队的贡献，这些团队可以促进行为变化的科学，特别是应用于对成功老龄化、健康和福祉至关重要的关键发育时期和关键过程。 公共卫生相关性：我们寻求建立跨学科研究团队，以创新的方法研究行为变化。我们提出了两个跨学科的会议，在青春期和晚年的人生转变中的决策和情绪调节。一次会议将聚焦于基础研究，另一次会议将聚焦于应用研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is growing interest in utilizing an interdisciplinary perspective to identify key targets and transition points in the life span that create unique opportunities for behavior change to improve health and well-being. The aim of this application is to develop unique interdisciplinary research teams that would be able to leverage the basic and applied research strengths on the Berkeley campus to conduct innovative research on behavior change. In support of this aim, we propose two interdisciplinary conferences with leading scholars from economics, neuroscience, psychology, and public health that will focus on decision making and emotion regulation during two key life-span transitions (adolescence and late life). The first conference would be focused on basic research and the second conference would be focused on applied research. Bringing together leading scholars from outside Berkeley at the two conferences will enable us to benefit from their expertise and help us identify key questions for the study of behavior change that cut across disciplines. We focus on adolescence and late life because they are key "inflection" points in the life span where trajectories for future development are set. These two points in the life span share important similarities (e.g., times of significant biological and social change) but have rarely been looked at together. We focus on decision making and emotion regulation because they: (a) involve similar neural systems; (b) undergo major reorganization in adolescence and late life; (c) influence each other; (d) predict outcomes of behavior change; and (e) have emerged as important topics in economics, neuroscience, psychology, and public health. We draw on complex neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, social, and contextual processes that go beyond the purview of individual disciplines. This rare opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue will led to the (a) identification of key conceptual questions that span different disciplines, (b) development of novel hypotheses, and (c) exchange of knowledge about promising scientific methodologies. The conference format we are proposing reflects our desire to promote interdisciplinary exchange, build research collaborations, and utilize conference synergies to support have embraced an interdisciplinary approach because these questions preparation of future grant applications. To increase the intellectual yield and training benefits from this effor, we will make a special effort to engage junior scholars from different disciplines in the proposed activities, affording them opportunities to engage in interdisciplinary networking and professional socialization at the two conferences. The long-term significance of this project is in its contribution to building interdisciplinary research teams that can advance the science of behavior change, especially as applied to critical developmental periods and critical processes that are vital for successful aging, health, and well-being. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: We seek to create interdisciplinary research teams to pursue an innovative approach to the study of behavior change. We propose two interdisciplinary conferences on decision making and emotion regulation during life- span transitions in adolescence and late life. One conference will focus on basic research and the other will focus on applied research.