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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sex Trafficking in Oklahoma: A look into Demand and the Online Networks of Commercial Sex Purchasers
(2019-11-13)“Human Trafficking" has become a buzzword which may conjure images of a girl in chains sitting in the corner of a room or action scenes of the popular movie Taken. Is this what human trafficking looks like though? What ... -
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 ... -
Ten Myths About Character, Virtue and Virtue Education - Plus Three Well-Founded Misgivings
(2013-04-30)Initiatives to cultivate character and virtue in moral education at school continue to provoke sceptical responses. Most of those echo familiar misgivings about the notions of character, virtue and education in virtue – ... -
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 ... -
Turning Points: Finding Experiential Forks in the Path to Wisdom and Virtues
(2016-07)This article was published as the lead article in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project e-Newsletter 06 (July 2016). -
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 ... -
Virtue Intelligence
(2014-01)The provocative title of this conference is, “Can Virtue Be Measured?” My answer to this question is, “Yes, it can,” and I hasten to add, “It should be.” I began thinking about whether and how to measure virtue when Jennifer ... -
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 ...