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Eudaimonic Growth: How Virtues and Motives Shape the Narrative Self and Its Development within a Social Ecology
(2015-03-14)
This transdisciplinary study will examine how the narration of self, motivation, and eudaimonic virtues like wisdom and compassion develop within a social ecology of family master narratives and social institutions that ...
The Beacon Project: Jump-Starting a Field of the Morally Exceptional
(2015-10)
This article was originally published in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project's e-Newsletter 03 (October 2015).
The Virtue of Self-Distancing
(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. ...
Motivating Virtuous Selves: The Impact of Gender and Culture
(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 ...
The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 02
(2015-07)
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 03
(2015-10)
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 ...
Investigating Implicit Aspects of Virtue: Understanding Humility Among Moral Exemplars
(2015-03-13)
Our research project will investigate the virtue of humility among real world humanitarian exemplars, such as holocaust rescuers and hospice workers. We will use computer technology to analyze interviews with these types ...
The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 01
(2015-03)
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 ...