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The Self, Motivation & Virtue Project Newsletter 05
(2016-04)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 06
(2016-07)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 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 ... -
Self-Control: The Linking of Self, Motivation, and Virtue
(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 ... -
Selfless Agents
(2015-03-14)This project will address the fundamental question in the background of the Self, Motivation and Virtue Project: How is the Self to be conceived? We challenge the premise of western philosophy that a diachronically unified ... -
Teaching Virtue
(2018)Can virtue be taught? The question is a controversial one, harking back to Confucianism and the Platonic dialogues. We assume that virtue can be taught in the sense that teachers can influence character development in ... -
Theatrical Intervention as a Pathway to Moral Virtue Development
(2015-03-13)Moral virtue development is grounded in social relationships that foster the socioemotional intelligence underlying moral virtue. Recent research shows a decrease in socioemotional intelligence with implications for moral ... -
The Transformation of the Self: Competing Moral Repertoires in Contemporary Java
(2015-03-14)Character and virtue are changing rapidly in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population. The long-praised preference for communal harmony over individual advancement is under great stress. The dominant force ... -
Understanding the Virtue-Relevant Self Through Courage
(2015-03-13)To what extent do differences in who we are predict differences in courage? We propose to de-velop a measure of the virtue-relevant self, which is composed of self-conception, social roles, virtue-relevant values, and ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Virtue, Practical Wisdom and Character in Teaching
(2014-06)Recent reflection on the professional knowledge of teachers has been marked by a shift away from more reductive competence and skill-focused models of teaching towards a view of teacher expertise as involving complex ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Who Am I? Investigating the Moral Self
(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 ...