Social Psychology
The NSF Social Psychology Program funds research exploring how social forces affect human behavior, emotions, and relationships, prioritizing innovative theories and methods with potential societal impact.
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates: January 15, 2027 (Application closing date)
Funding Amounts: No cost sharing or matching required
Summary: Supports theoretically focused empirical research and infrastructure advancing fundamental explanations of human social behavior, attitudes, and experience.
Key Information: Research primarily aimed at improving clinical practice or containing disease-related goals may be returned without review.
Description
The NSF Social Psychology Program supports theoretically focused empirical investigations explaining how macro- and micro-level social forces influence human behavior, attitudes, and experience. Research and infrastructure proposals may examine how thought, motivation, emotion, neural processes, and physiological processes shape how people think about and relate to themselves and others.
The program seeks potential for groundbreaking discoveries about the power of social dynamics. Basic research connected to emerging and ongoing global challenges is especially encouraged, as are proposals developing new theories or methods. Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and convergent approaches are welcome, and investigators are encouraged to identify other NSF programs for possible co-review.
