The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.
Andrew Roskos-Ewoldsen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science and the University of California, Davis, with a focus on international relations, international security, and foreign policy decision-making. His research project explores the process by and the conditions under which the norm of reciprocity affects security decision-making. Reciprocity, or the returning of a behavior, is ubiquitous at every level of human society and has been extensively studied in international relations. Yet there is a lack of micro-level, behavioral explanations for why a given actor chooses to reciprocate a cooperative or conflictive act in international security settings. Using a combination of experimental and observational methods in multinational settings, this project tests a psychological theory of reciprocity that argues reciprocity is a powerful rule of thumb that helps guide individual decision-making. This research aims to contribute to our understanding of when and why the returning of a behavior is such a powerful force in international relations.
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