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SBE 2020: White Papers National Science Foundation Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences SBE 2020: White Papers Titles, Authors, and Abstracts February 2011 SBE 2020: White Papers http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020 Recommended citation: National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. 2011. SBE 2020: White Papers; Titles, Authors, and Abstracts. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation. The abstracts contained in this publication and the works they describe are licensed under Creative Commons licenses (http://creativecommons.org/). The specifications of each license differ; for future use, please consult each work for the details of the license governing it. For more information on the SBE 2020 project, contact: Myron P. Gutmann Assistant Director Amy Friedlander Sr. Advisor Office of the Assistant Director National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA Page 2 SBE 2020: White Papers http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020 Table of Contents Table of Contents .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 The White Paper Abstracts ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Challenges for Social Sciences: Institutions and Economic Development ....................................................................................... 12 Advancing Ethical Research Across Disciplines .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Future Considerations for Archaeology at Altitude ................................................................................................................................... 12 Pushing the Boundaries of Economics............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Multiple Skills, Multiple Types of Education, and the Labor Market: A Research Agenda ....................................................... 13 Endangered Languages and Linguistic Infrastructure ............................................................................................................................. 13 Where They Live: Community Media Centers as Hubs for Building Technological Literacy, Media Literacy, and Active Citizenship ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 How and Why Do Close Relationships Shape Human Behavior? ......................................................................................................... 14 Grand Challenges in the Study of Employment and Technological Change .................................................................................... 15 National Communication Association's Response to Dear Colleague Letter .................................................................................. 15 Documenting Extant Cultural Collections: A Grand Challenge for the Social Sciences .............................................................. 15 Comments on Grand Challenges ......................................................................................................................................................................... 16 SBE 2020: Twenty-first-Century Challenges and Opportunities for the Human Sciences ....................................................... 16 Correcting the Mathematical Foundations of the Social and Economic Sciences ......................................................................... 16 A Grand Challenge for Linguistics: Scaling Up and Integrating Models ............................................................................................ 17 A Proposal for Future SBE/NSF Funding: Refocusing Microeconomic Policy Research ........................................................... 17 Researching Social Media in the 21st Century ............................................................................................................................................. 17 Migration, Multilingualism, and Minorities: New Challenges for the Linguistic Sciences ........................................................ 17 Melding Milk and Iron: The Affective Power of Pre-Colonial Science in Post-Colonial Africa ................................................ 18 Social Technical Congruence: The Link Between Social Science and Technology ....................................................................... 18 White Paper for NSF Grand Challenges ........................................................................................................................................................... 19 Robustness and Fragility of Markets: Research at the Interface of Economics and Computer Science ............................. 19 Semantic Typology as an Approach to Mapping the Nature-Nurture Divide in Cognition ...................................................... 19 SBE 2020: Quantitative Convergence of Lifespan Development, Neuroimaging, and Genetic Epidemiology ................. 19 Complex, Heterogeneous Teams Solving 21st-Century Problems ....................................................................................................... 20 The Grand Challenge of Understanding Group Effectiveness................................................................................................................ 20 The Science of Team Science (SciTS): A Beacon for 21st-Century Scientific Collaboration...................................................... 20 Future NSF Economics Funding Priorities ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Teaching and Evaluation of Interdisciplinarity ........................................................................................................................................... 21 Expanding Multivariate Models .......................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Integrated Social Science: Exploring the Dark Matter of Human Cultures and Societies ......................................................... 22 Coupling Human System Data with Natural System Data: Laying a Foundation for Sustainability Science .................... 22 Improving Measures of Democracy and Governance ............................................................................................................................... 23 Page 3 SBE 2020: White Papers http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020 Social and Political Dynamics under Intensifying Climate Change: Proposal for a Long-Term Data Collection Project ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Beyond Despair: Next Decade Research Strategies to Promote Health Equity among Racial and Ethnic Minorities .. 23 What Can Animal Cognition Contribute to Cognitive Science? ............................................................................................................. 24 Prescriptive Decision Research: an Interdisciplinary Extension of Normative And Descriptive Decision Theiry Integrated With Decision Aiding Experience. ............................................................................................................................................... 24 Knowledge Development for Mental Health of Older Adults ................................................................................................................ 25 Understanding Standards ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Identifying the Biological Mechanisms Underlying Social Behavior .................................................................................................. 25 Documentation and Analysis of Endangered Languages, Cultures, and Knowledge Systems ................................................ 26 Expanding Access to Administrative Data for Research in the United States ................................................................................ 26 Dirty Jobs: Fitting a Statistical Model to a Large Data Set with a Large Amount of Missing Data ......................................... 26 The Management and Organization Science Puzzle: Questions from a Metaphorical Comparison of Medicine and Management ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................
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