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The Motivation to Love: Overcoming Spiritual Violence and Sacramental Shame in Christian Churches
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
Personal Projects and the Development of Virtue: How Characteristic Adaptations Enact and Encourage Virtue
(2015-03-13)
How does the development of virtue play out in the context of personal projects—key elements of identity in which progress is crucial for well-being—such as those related to relationships, vocation, and self-improvement? ...
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 ...
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 ...