Objective
Trust is essential for cooperation to flourish and for societies to function. While trust-based cooperation has been investigated extensively in fields as diverse as economics, philosophy, sociology, and psychology hardly anything is known about its ontogenetic and phylogenetic roots. The planned action will fill this gap and thereby make a significant contribution to the behavioral sciences. In a first step (outgoing phase), I will conduct innovative behavioral experiments with young children to uncover the developmental emergence of trust-based cooperation over the preschool years. Particular emphasis will be placed on the mechanisms by which children generate trust in cooperative interactions, how this is enabled by the development by key cognitive capacities (future planning, inhibitory control, theory of mind), and how this changes over course of development. In addition, I will conduct comparative studies with chimpanzees – one of human’s closest living evolutionary relatives – to elucidate the evolutionary origins of trust. By using cutting-edge experimental methodologies, the action will uncover the psychological foundations of one of the key proximate mechanisms underlying human cooperative activity and help reveal which aspects of trust-based cooperation are unique to humans. In a second step (incoming phase), I will apply the newly acquired knowledge to state-of-the-art decision-making research. By combining the strengths of two highly prolific research fields the action will generate fruitful theoretical synergies and provide new insights into how decision makers manage to overcome the social risks inherent in cooperative activities by selectively adopting a trusting attitude towards specific partners.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences sociology
- social sciences economics and business economics
- natural sciences biological sciences evolutionary biology
- social sciences psychology
- humanities philosophy, ethics and religion philosophy
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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Topic(s)
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Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
MSCA-IF-GF - Global Fellowships
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Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
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80539 MUNCHEN
Germany
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