Previous CBDR Small Grant Recipients
The CBDR Small Grants Program was created in the Spring of 2005 to support high-quality work in behavioral and decision research. Recipients are eligible for up to $2,500 to support their research.
View some of our past small grant recipients below:
2025 Recipients
| Recipient's Name |
Program of Affiliation |
Title of Project |
| Aaron Balleisen |
Social and Decision Sciences |
Assessing Egocentrism Bias in Strategic Decision Making |
| Dhwani Yagnaraman |
Social and Decision Sciences |
Deprioritizing Climate Change |
| Angela Xiao |
Marketing |
Aspirational purchases |
| Jisoo Hyun |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
The Role of Knowledge Types in Cognitive Performance After Discontinued AI Assistance |
2024 Recipients
| Recipient's Name |
Program of Affiliaiton |
Title of Project |
| Ben Therrien |
Engineering and Public Policy, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Developing a mental model and risk communication tool to support agricultural nanotechnology decision-making for non-technical stakeholders |
| Pim (Anyada) Assavabhokhin |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Will AI Complement or Substitute Transactive Memory Systems |
2023 Recipients
| Recipient's Name |
Program of Affiliaiton |
Title of Project |
| Wenzhuo Xu |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Decision Research) |
Equilibrium in Voluntary Disclosure:
Opting Out of Standardized Test Scores in College Admissions |
| Trent Cash |
Social and Decision Sciences and Psychology |
Evaluating Metacognitive Knowledge in Subjective Decisions |
2022 Recipients
| Recipient's Name |
Program of Affiliation |
Title of Project |
| Jenny Chang |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Decision Research) |
The “Hidden” Gender Gap in Self-Promotion |
| Phuong (Phoebe) Dinh |
Psychology |
The Effects of Domain and Expertise on Adult Causal Learning in the US |
| Wenzhou Xu |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Decision Research) |
Technology Intermediary in Self-Promotion |
| Jenny Chang |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Decision Research) |
Evidence on Closing Gender Gaps in Self-Promotion |
| Stephanie Permut |
Social and Decision Sciences |
COVID Near Misses |
| Patience Stevens |
Cognitivie Psychology |
What Drives Children’s Increasing Sensitivity to the
Morphological Structure of Written Words |
| Matthew Diabes |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Empirical Evidence and a Measurement Tool for a Holistic Well-Being Construct |
2021 Recipients
| Recipient's Name |
Program of Affiliation |
Title of Project |
| Alison Butler |
Social and Decision Sciences |
Lay Understanding of Vaccine Efficacy |
| Sae-Seul Park |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
How Performance Incentives Impact Networks, Content, and Utilization of Shared Knowledge: Evidence from Digital Trace Data on Firm KMS |
| Trent Cash |
Social and Decision Sciences and Psychology |
How Do School Ratings Impacts Parents’ Preferences Between Schools |
| Seth Chizeck and Jose Eduardo |
Public Policy and Information Systems Management |
Covid Vaccination Survey Study |
2020 Recipients
| Recipient's Name |
Program of Affiliation |
Title of Project |
| Matthew Diabes |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Does Well-Being Attenuate the Gender Gap in Apology Behavior? |
| Erin McCormick |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Decision Research) |
Part of dissertation: Adaptation to Change in Decision Making |
| Benjamin Ostrowski |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Team Knowledge and Adaptation: Evidence from Medical and Laboratory Teams |
| Alison Butler |
Social and Decision Sciences |
n/a |
| Sami Horn |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Economics) |
Anxiety and Misinformation |
| Dan Connolly |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Decision Research) |
n/a |
| Niles Guo |
Engineering and Public Policy |
n/a |
| Elizabeth Campbell |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Qualitative Study on Differences in Male and Female Sponsors' Goals and Decision-Making Processes |
2019 Recipients
| Recipient's Name |
Program of Affiliation |
Title of Project |
| Jinwoo Kim |
Marketing |
Positive versus Negative Skew: How Skewness Shapes the Dynamics of Risk-Taking |
| Nikolos Gurney |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Decision Research) |
Artificial Influencers: How Artificial Intelligences Interact with Human Judgment and Decision Making |
| Matthew Diabes |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Coordinated Attention, Boundary Management, and Collective Intelligence |
| Alessandro Iorio |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Situational Antecedents of Brokering Orientations |
| Stephanie Permut |
Social and Decision Sciences |
Working Hard or Hardly Working: Comparing Incentives’ Effects on Work Output and Quality |
| Benjamin Ostrowski |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Team Knowledge and Composition in Adaptation: Process Clarity, Transactive Memory, and Perspective Taking |
| Joachim Talloen |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Economics) |
Opportunity for Leisure Increases Productivity |
| Yana Litovsky |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Decision Research) |
n/a |
2018 Recipients
| Recipient's Name |
Program of Affiliation |
Title of Project |
| Eric Silver |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Economics) |
Warm-glow certainty and uncertain payouts |
| Sae-Seul Park |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Ingroup ‘Flexibility’: Evidence of Social Influence in Third-Party Regulation Markets |
| Matthew Diabes |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Transparent Members of Teams: A Multilevel Analysis of Dispositional Characteristics Predictive of Transactive Memory |
| Stephanie Anglin |
Social and Decision Sciences |
Unwarranted Extrapolation in the Communication of Science News |
2017 Recipients
| Recipient's Name |
Program of Affiliation |
Title of Project |
| Yeonjeong Kim |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Identifying Unethical Individuals |
| Stephanie Permut |
Social and Decision Sciences |
n/a |
| Zachary Wojtowicz |
Social and Decision Sciences (Behavioral Economics) |
Type II Components |
| Elizabeth Campbell |
Organizational Behavior and Theory |
Gender Disparities in Sponsorship and Mentorship |
