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The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and Research Center for Group Dynamics:
65 Years of Social Science in the Public Interest
L. Rowell HuesmannDirector, Research Center for Group Dynamics,
Institute for Social Research
Amos Tversky Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Communication Studies
AGGRESSION RESEARCH GROUP
The Institute for Social Research
ISR StructureComprised of five research centers originating over time and each with a
particular social science focus, which are supported by a central administrative center
Survey Research Center (1946)
Research Center for Group Dynamics (1948)
Population Studies Center (founded 1961, merged with ISR 1990)
Center for Political Studies (1970)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (founded 1962, unique center 1998)
Center for Institute Services
ISR Personnel
Ph.D. Scientists & Professors 276Faculty with Joint Appointments 160
Permanent Staff 555
Contingent Staff 1,028
Total ISR Personnel 1,859
InterdisciplinarityISR is a Bridge across U-M’s Campus
Over 20 disciplines represented on our research faculty and working on our research teams
Approximately 58% of our research faculty have appointments in academic departments around campus
ISR is critical to the University to attract the best and brightest quantitative social scientists
ISR Researchers Come from More than 20 Disciplines
Ph.D. Career Tracks in ISRResearch Professor Track
– Research Assistant, Associate, and Full ProfessorResearch Scientist Track
– Research Investigator– Assistant, Associate, and Full Research Scientist
Joint Appointments– Above plus ‘Faculty Associate’
Differential SalariesWhat does ‘tenure’ mean on the research
tracks?
ISR Funding
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Funding Sources
FederalFoundationIndustry & OthersU-M Internal Grants
Cumulative Awards by Fiscal Year with Stimulus Funds
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The Origins of the Institute for Social Research at the
University of Michigan
The Survey Research CenterSRC
SRC Comes to Michigan
1926 Likert graduates from U of M in sociology 1939 – 45 As director of surveys for USDA Likert attracts top social
scientists to work on surveys for the war effort. He is joined by Angus Campbell, Charlie Cannell, Dorwin Cartwright, George Katona, and Leslie Kish.
1946 War ends and entire group moves to U of M where Don Marquis, Robert Angell, and Ted Newcomb are located. The group becomes the Survey Research Center with Likert as the director. They are quickly joined by Bob Kahn, Dan Katz, & others
Angus Campbell & Rensis Likert
Iconic Moment 1 Soon To Be ISR Researchers Help
Defeat Axis and Save the USA
Iconic Moment 2“The Funding Deal”
The U of M Regents established the SRC with the provision that no internal funds would be used to support it.
To compensate for this they agreed that the center could keep whatever indirect costs came with its grants and contracts
However, the center would have to pay rent for its space, its utility costs, and all other expenses on its own.
Finally, the center would not be located administratively within any higher order unit but would report directly to the Provost as did the colleges at Michigan
Iconic Moment 3SRC Defeats Gallup Pollsters
Iconic Moment 4 ISR Helps Defeat Polio
The Research Center for Group Dynamics
RCGD
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. - Kurt Lewin
BACK TO THE FUTURE
RCGD FOUNDERS
ALVIN ZANDER
RON LIPPETT
LEON FESTINGERDOC CARTWRIGHT
JACK FRENCH
Founding of ISR
JACK FRENCH, LEON FESTINGER,
DOC CARTWRIGHT, & RENSIS LIKERT
ANGUS CAMPBELL,RENSIS LIKERT, & ‘DOC’ CARTWRIGHT
ISR’s FIRST HOME
Feb. 1, 1949 SRC & RCGD merge to form ISR
Administration of ISR
ProvostExec VP Academic Affairs
ISR Director
Center Director s
Research Faculty
VP for Research
Center Exec Comm
ISR Policy Comm
Elector Role
Advisory Role
Flow of Funding for Typical Academic Department
Provost
Dean
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Researcher
Grants
Provost Decides Amounts
Dean Decides Amounts
Chair Decides Amounts
Grant Direct Costs
Grant Indirect Costs
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Flow of Funding for ISR
Provost
ISR Central Admin
Center
Researcher
GrantCenters Decide Amounts
Grant Direct Costs
Grant Indirect Costs
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Centers Decide Amounts
Only Special Initiatives
$27/sq ft rent + 7% of ICR
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The Survey Research CenterSRC
SRC’sPrograms of Research
SRC’s “Gold Standard” Repeating Surveys
• Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers
• Monitoring the Future
• American National Election Studies
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics
• Health and Retirement Study
• Army STARRS
Surveys of ConsumersMonthly surveys since 1946 gauge how consumers feel the economic environment will change.
Data from the Surveys of Consumers have proved to be accurate indicators of the future course of the national economy. The data are widely used by a broad range of business firms, financial institutions, and federal agencies.
October 2012 Findings
Consumer confidence posted record gain in October, and consumers were more confident about economic prospects in October than any other time during the last five years, according to the latest survey, which have been monitoring consumer attitudes and expectations for more than 60 years.
Monitoring the Future
Surveying 50,000 U.S. teens every year since 1975.
12th graders have been surveyed since 1975, 8th and 10th graders were added in 1991.
Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse as part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
NIDA Funding was recently awarded for the next five years, totaling $35 million.
American National Election Studies
An ANES study represents one or more interviews conducted with a sample of U.S. eligible voters during one or more interview periods, usually coinciding with U.S. elections of the House of Representatives.
Begun in 1948, with support from the Social Science Research Council, as a pilot study of the national electorate.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, The University of Michigan and Stanford University.
Longest running household panel study in the worldbegun in 1968
Examines dynamics of socioeconomic lives of AmericansCurrently collects data on over 22,000 AmericansReplicated in numerous countriesPrimarily funded by NSF and NIH
With additional funding from the Russell Sage FoundationLargest project funded by Economics Program at NSF
Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Transformative scientific impactMore than 3,000 peer-reviewed articles have used the dataUsed by scholars across the country and world
Large-scale longitudinal project that studies the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow.
Nationally representative of population 50 and older.
Over 150,000 interviews with over 30,000 participants.
In 2006, expanded to add biological measures, richer psychological measures, and DNA. In 2012, the genetic information from 12,500 consenting participants was added to the online genetics database of the NIH.
Begun in 1990 with Congressional authorization to NIA to provide data on aging and retirement.
Now the largest single U-M federally-funded project, which is supported by the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration. Additional funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Army Study to Assess Risks and Resilience in Service Members (STARRS)
Army STARRS is the largest study of mental health risk and resilience ever conducted among military personnel.
Five year study that will run through 2014.
Beginning in 2004, the suicide rate among Soldiers began to rise, reaching record levels in 2007.
The Army engaged the National Institute of Mental Health to help address the issue.
Several Component StudiesThe Historical Data Study
The All Army Study
The New Soldier Study
The Soldier Health Outcomes Study
RCGD Although RCGD’s original mission – to study the
dynamics of groups – has undergone a number of transformations over the past fifty years of its existence, the Center remains focused on the advancement of understanding human behavior in a societal context.
The Center is really now a Center for the Study of Social Dynamics.
Programs of research endeavor to explain particular aspects of the complex interdependence between the psychological life of an individual and the social system in which that person exists.
THE GROUP DYNAMICS SEMINAR
One of the major vehicles for interaction in the Center is the Group Dynamics Seminar. This is probably the oldest social science seminar on campus, if not the world. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. It meets every term, usually with a theme such as “Close Interpersonal Relations,” or “Economics and Social Behavior,” or “Stereotyping and Prejudice.” Group Dynamics Seminars are open to the entire University community and provide an opportunity for researchers, scholars, staff, and students to meet and learn about new and ongoing research activities.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHGIGANINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
RESEARCH CENTER FOR GROUP DYNAMICS
Center Directors
Dorwin Cartwright 1948-1958
Alvin Zander 1959-1978
Philip Brickman 1979-1982
Robert B. Zajonc 1982-1989
Richard E. Nisbett 1990-1995
James S. Jackson 1996-2004
L. Rowell Huesmann 2005-2012
BACK WHEN WE WERE YOUNG…
Current RCGD Research Programs
• Gender &Achievement Research Program• Aggression Research Program• Analysis of Pathways from Childhood to Adulthood Program• Communications Neuroscience Program• Culture, Mind & the Brain Program• Culture and the Self Program• Evolution and Human Adaptation• Gender and Achievement Research• Media Psychology Program• Program for Research on Black Americans• Program on Teaching, Learning, & Technology
RCGD INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL STUDIES EXCHANGE PROGRAM
Initiated by Robert Zajonc and now directed by Eugene Burnstein, RCGD supports an exchange program with the Institute for Social Studies at Warsaw University in Poland. The program is funded by the U.S. State Department and allows faculty and graduate students in Ann Arbor and Warsaw to collaborate on research as well as teach and study at each other’s institution.
SUMMARYISR and RCGD’s Continuing Goals
Social Science in the Public Interest– Providing valid empirical data– Advancing social-science theory– Championing applications in the public interest
Interdisciplinarity Establishing the Gold Standard for precision in measuring
social phenomena Training the Next Generation of empirical social scientist
around the world Partnering with institutions around the globe to develop
capacity in the social sciences Pioneering data archiving and sharing
Building for the Future
ISR Building Wing 4 – Perspective from the West - Division Street Side