DARPA Polyplexus Pilot Topic Opportunity: Cognitive Dissonance Detection

Sponsor Deadline: 

Nov 4, 2019

Letter of Intent Deadline: 

Sep 23, 2019

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DOD Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

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DARPA Polyplexus Pilot Topic Opportunity Notice for Cognitive Dissonance Detection (Topic 16)
HR001119S0075-16
Grants.gov   https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=319159
FedBizOpps  https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=bb666b33829333b0724...

Proposers are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract in advance of a full proposal to minimize effort and reduce the potential expense of preparing an out of scope proposal. Final deadline for abstract submission in response to this topic is September 23, 2019 at 4:00 PM Eastern time
Final deadline for proposal submission in response to this topic is Novemver 4, 2019 at 4:00 PM Eastern time.

The updated topic can be found in on the polyplexus.com  website as “Cognitive Dissonance Detection (Topic 16)”    https://polyplexus.com/incubator?idIncubator=257

This incubator seeks to develop and validate ideas: 1) for detecting and identifying cognitive dissonance – or when a person or community holds two beliefs that are in conflict, and specifically when a belief is in conflict an action, and 2) for predicting when confronted with the conflict, what action the conflicted will take to resolve the tension (e.g., change beliefs, change actions, add rationalizing thoughts, trivialize the inconsistency, etc.). Of particular interest is how repeated and recursive cycles of confrontation and resolution shift belief and/or actions over time – weeks, months or even years. What are clever ways we can study this?

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