OU - Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing: Recent submissions

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    • The Virtue of Self-Distancing 

      Herold, Warren; Kross, Ethan; Sowden, Walter (2015-03-14)
      According to Adam Smith, developing a moral self requires psychological distance: the ability to adopt a perspective outside of oneself, and then examine and regulate one’s feelings and behavior from that point of view. ...

    • The Neuroscience of Habituated Motivation 

      Masala, Alberto; Andler, Daniel; Denizeau, Jean (2015-03-14)
      This project brings together neo-Aristotelian theory of motivational habituation and neuro-cognitive models of skill acquisition, in order to explain why it is so difficult to cultivate extended and sophisticated motivational ...

    • The Motivation to Love: Overcoming Spiritual Violence and Sacramental Shame in Christian Churches 

      Moon, Dawne; Tobin, Theresa (2015-03-14)
      The Motivation to Love is a collaborative, qualitative study of spiritual violence in Roman Catholic and evangelical Protestant churches’ relationships with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Spiritual ...

    • Who Am I? Investigating the Moral Self 

      Prinz, Jesse; Gomez-Lavin, Javier; Nichols, Shaun; Stohminger, Nina (2015-03-14)
      Emerging research suggests a crucial link between the self and morality; that is, we define our-selves less by our personality, memory, or agency than by our moral values. Although this work indicates an association between ...

    • Existential Feelings in Virtue: A Philosophical-Psychological Investigation 

      Sullivan, Daniel; Achim, Stephan (2015-03-14)
      Discourses on the self and virtue have minimized the importance of emotion in favor of cognitive-developmental perspectives. Yet recent theory and research in philosophy (Kristjánsson, 2010; Slaby & Stephan, 2008) and ...

    • Self-Control: The Linking of Self, Motivation, and Virtue 

      Cole Wright, Jennifer; Nadelhoffer, Thomas; Goya-Tocchetto, Daniela; Langville, Amy; Struchiner, Noel (2015-03-14)
      The key issue our team will be exploring is the role played by self-control in the development and expression of virtue. In particular, we are interested in the self-regulating function of people’s self-narratives ...

    • Self and Desire as Seeds of Virtue 

      Condon, Paul; Dunne, John; Wilson-Mendenhall, Christine; Hasenkamp, Wendy; Quigley, Karen; Barrett, Lisa (2015-03-14)
      According to Buddhist philosophies, recognizing the self as impermanent, changing, and interdependent is at the root of virtue. With this realization, desires shift away from inward self-cherishing and toward outward ...

    • Motivating Virtuous Selves: The Impact of Gender and Culture 

      Raine, Roxanne; Scheopner, Cynthia; McKinney, Jonathan (2015-03-14)
      The self is defined differently both across and within disciplines and cultures. The traditional Western view of self as an ethical or economic subject is challenged by process philosophers as misplaced and by feminists ...