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Research Infrastructure
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... Research Infrastructure Committee on Aging Frontiers in Social Psychology, Personality, and Adult Developmental Psychology As stated in our recommendation in Chapter 1, the committee strongly supports the development of integrated interdisciplinary grants that will take the best conceptual and measurement work from social, personality, and adult development psychology and link it with comparable work from other disciplines, such as economics, biostatistics, neurosciences, demography, health psychology, geriatric medicine, behavioral economics, social neuroscience, psychoneuroimmunology, and engineering, in order to address important social and health problems of relevance to the mission of the National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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... 248 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE National Institutes of Health [NIH]
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... COMMITTEE ON AGING FRONTIERS 249 grants program to promote specific aspects of interdisciplinary work. A very successful model of such a program is the "small grants in behavioral economics" program run by the Russell Sage Foundation (for details, see http://www.russellsage.org/programs/other/behavioral/smallgrants/, accessed October 13, 2005)
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... 250 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE approaching the exciting questions in aging research, we believe major strides in understanding certain key aspects of aging can be realized in a short time. The promise of those strides is a better quality of life for the nation's older adults, as well as better contributions from them to the nation's well-being.
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