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Personal Projects and the Development of Virtue: How Characteristic Adaptations Enact and Encourage Virtue
(2015-03-13)
How does the development of virtue play out in the context of personal projects—key elements of identity in which progress is crucial for well-being—such as those related to relationships, vocation, and self-improvement? ...
The Co-Construction of Virtue: Epigenetics, Development, and Culture
(2014)
Chapter from the book "Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology." Ed. Nancy E. Snow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
2016 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Conference Highlights
(2016-05)
This video features highlights from the 2016 Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Conference, held on May 5-7, 2016 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. This event was made possible by funding from the ...
Humility as Opening to Others: Exemplar-Mediated Reconfigurations of the Self
(2016-05-06)
The talk will engage distinctive contributions of the virtue of humility to the communal life of L’Arche communities, and of these communities’ practices to our understanding of humility. Long-term, dedicated Assistants ...
Virtues as Properly Motivated, Self-Integrated Traits
(2015-03-13)
Contemporary empirical research on virtues has been promising, but limited in depth and value by investigators’ reliance on global self-report questionnaires obtained at a single time-point. These questionnaires require ...
Moral Exemplarism
(2016-07)
This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 04, January 2016.
Eudaimonic Growth: How Virtues and Motives Shape the Narrative Self and Its Development within a Social Ecology
(2016-05)
This project investigates how virtues shape people’s life stories within a social ecology of families, social institutions, and cultural master narratives. Life stories allow us to study how virtues serve as motives for ...
Self-Transcendence, Virtue and Happiness: A Psychological Investigation of Buddhist Perspectives on the Self and Well-Being
(2015-03-13)
The proposed project aims to study self-identification as a major impediment to virtue and hap-piness, and self-transcendence as a reliable path to higher personal well-being. Approaching age-old philosophical questions ...
The Gestation of Virtue: An Examination of How Experiences in the Womb May Build the Moral Self
(2015-03-14)
This project represents an empirical test of the Co-Investigator’s “Life is a Wonder” model of pregnancy (Barragan Sanchez, 2007). The Life is a Wonder model posits that, if an expecting mother construes her coming baby ...