Moral Self Archive
Welcome
The Moral Self Archive is a fully searchable repository, freely available to scholars, students, and the general public. It was originally created and managed by the Self, Motivation and Virtue Project. The SMV Project was a 3-year initiative (Sept. 2014 - March 2018), funded by the Templeton Religion Trust, that supported innovative, interdisciplinary research on virtue and moral development, with a special focus on exploring new ways of measuring virtue and how it develops in humans. Visit the SMV Project website for more details. The Moral Self Archive is now managed by the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing.
The SMV Project was funded by generous support from the Templeton Religion Trust and the University of Oklahoma.
Submit your work
If you are interested in submitting work to the Moral Self Archive, please contact Dr. Nancy Snow (nsnow@ou.edu).
Recent Submissions
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The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 10
(2017-11)This is the quarterly electronic publication of the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project. It features a lead article, autobiographical sketches of SMV Project research team members, publication announcements, and updates about ... -
The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 09
(2017-08)This is the quarterly electronic publication of the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project. It features a lead article, autobiographical sketches of SMV Project research team members, publication announcements, and updates about ... -
How to Train a Better Scientist: Intellectual Virtues, Epistemic Reasoning and Science Education
(2017-07)This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 09, July 2017. -
Ethical Parenting
(2017-10)This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 10, October 2017. -
Philosophy, Theoretical Psychology, and Empirical Research: Is Mutual Enrichment Possible and Desirable?
(2017-03-10)This presentation was given by Dr. Blaine Fowers and Dr. Bradford Cokelet at the 2017 Annual Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. It is based on reflections from their own scholarly ... -
Getting Back on Track to Being Human
(2017-05-02)Cooperation and compassion are forms of intelligence. Their lack is an indication of ongoing stress or toxic stress during development that undermined the usual growth of compassion capacities. Though it is hard to face ... -
Integrity and its Puzzles
(2017-05)This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project’s e-Newsletter 08, May 2017. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Virtue of Self-Distancing
(2016-05-07)One develops a moral self, according to Adam Smith, by examining one’s feelings and behavior from a spectators’ point of view. Our first study examines this claim by asking participants to split $10 between themselves and ... -
A Personal-Projects Approach to Well-Being and Virtue: Philosophical and Psychological Considerations
(2016-05-07)Philosophical theories of well-being are diverse and often in disagreement, but we believe progress can be made by starting from an assertion that we think all such theories can agree on—namely, that success in at least ... -
Virtues as Properly Motivated, Self-integrated Traits
(2016-05-07)We begin by discussing the elements of properly assessed virtue traits that we are studying, including proper motivation, self-integration, continuity over time, and behavioral manifestation. We are documenting the virtues ... -
The Motivation to Love: Overcoming Spiritual Violence and Sacramental Shame in Christian Churches
(2016-05-07)Our project examines the movement among conservative Christians to change the conversation around gender, sexuality, sin and love, and to even affirm LGBT identities and sometimes even same-sex marriage. Using one poignant ... -
Giving from the Heart: The Role of the Heart and the Brain in Virtuous Motivation and Integrity
(2016-05-07)To what extent and in what way is the self unified? How does its degree of unification lead to or stymie virtuous motivation and action? This project investigates embodied fluency in value-directed-actions and a drive ... -
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 ... -
Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More?
(2016-05-06)Our international project involves interviews with older and younger adults of 4 faith conditions (Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Agnostic) in 2 countries, Canada and South Korea. Study 1 includes participants from two ... -
Self, Desire, and Virtue in Romantic Relationships: A Novel Integration of Buddhist Philosophy and Relationship Science
(2016-05-06)Our project aims to study the interplay of self, desire, virtue, and flourishing in the relational contexts that characterize daily life. This presentation will focus on the initial seeds that have blossomed from deep ... -
Whole trait theory: Does it work for virtue?
(2016-05)Nearly a century after the first blow landed for the situationist argument, Whole Trait Theory was offered as a new model of traits, one that benefited from the situationists’ points. Whole Trait Theory argued that there ... -
The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 08
(2017-05)This is the quarterly electronic publication of the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project. It features a lead article, autobiographical sketches of SMV Project research team members, publication announcements, and updates about ... -
The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 07
(2017-02)This is the quarterly electronic publication of the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project. It features a lead article, autobiographical sketches of SMV Project research team members, publication announcements, and updates about ...
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