Recently Approved Grants

Character Virtue Development

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
#CultivatingCharacter: A Global Movement to Cultivate Character both Online and Off Through Living 24/6	Let it Ripple, Inc	Tiffany Shlain	$350,000
Exemplar Interventions to Develop Character	Wake Forest University	Eranda Jayawickreme, Michael Lamb	$1,686,200
Identifying Metrics of Character Development in Adults: Insights from shared life in L’Arche	L’Arche USA	Tina Bovermann, Brenna Case	$220,000
Individual differences and children’s motivations for forgiveness	Trustees of Boston University	Peter Blake	$233,917
Innovative Videos for the Greater Good	Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	Jason Marsh	$234,800

 

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Measuring Religious Change in the Global East	Purdue University	Fenggang Yang, Chris White	$234,800
Family Purpose in the 21st Century: Understanding and Fostering Purpose among Families with Extraordinary Responsibilities	Claremont Graduate University	Kendall Bronk, Tarek el Sehity	$1,564,673
Children’s Developing Concepts of God’s Causal Relevance	University of Texas at Austin	Jacqueline Woolley, Kelsey Kelley	$463,067
Spirituality and Prosocial Values in the Absence of Religion Among Millennials and Their Families	Syracuse University	Merril Silverstein, Vern Bengtson	$278,1745

 

Philosophy & Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Science-Engaged Philosophical Theology: God, Time, and Creation	Rutgers University Foundation	Dean Zimmerman	$1,031,088

 

Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth at Age 50 (1971-2021): Studying Genius-Level Talent and Creativity in Life’s Prime Years	Vanderbilt University	David Lubinski, Camilla Benbow	$735,253

 

Recently Featured Grants

How Life’s Upheavals Shape Us

Hidden Depths: The ancestry of our most human emotions

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Scientists studying brains of altruistic kidney donors who give organs to strangers	July 8, 2019	CBS News	Examining the Role of Shared Neural Representations of Pain-Related Affect in Empathy and Altruism
Think You Know the Definition of a Black Hole? Think Again	July 12, 2019	Nautilus	Nautilus Magazine
The brain’s pathways to imagination may hold the key to altruistic behavior	July 12, 2019	Science Daily	Reasoning in moral Thought and Action
The real midlife crisis confronting many Americans	July 15, 2019	The Conversation	The Pathways to Character Project
Experiencing Awe May Bridge The Gap Between Science And Religion	July 19, 2019	Forbes	Fostering Cross-Cultural and Multi-Wave Psychological Research on Religiosity
Assessing Ethical Character In College Admission	July 25, 2019	Forbes	Building Virtues Through College Admissions: Developing Effective, Authentic, Assessments That Positively Motivate Student Behavior
Babies understand social hierarchies, expect leaders to fix everything when someone breaks the rules	July 29, 2019	Newsweek	Infants’ and Toddlers’ Evaluations of Moral Character
Bioethicists worried patients couldn’t handle their own genetic testing results. They were (mostly) wrong	July 30, 2019	STAT	Gene Editing and Human Flourishing

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Single-world consistent interpretation of quantum mechanics from fundamental time and length uncertainties	July 2, 2019	Physical Review A	Quantum Reality: Physics and the Human Quest for Sense
The gradual development of the preference for natural environments	July 2, 2019	Journal of Environmental Psychology	Developing the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom
Blurring the germline: Genome editing and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance	July 2, 2019	Bioethics	Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test
We’re all behavioral economists now	July 3, 2019	Journal of Economic Methodology	Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life
Asking ‘Why?’ Enhances Theory of Mind When Evaluating Harm but not Purity Violations	July 3, 2019	Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience	Building Virtue: Environmental and Social Influences on the Development of Fairness, Forgiveness, Honesty, and Trustworthiness
Divine, interpersonal and self-forgiveness: Independently related to depressive symptoms?	July 7, 2019	The Journal of Positive Psychology	Divine Forgiveness: Phase 1
The Hand of God or the Work of the Devil? Spiritual Appraisals and Psychological Adjustment After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election	July 11, 2019	Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy	Understanding Supernatural Attributions: Types, Predictors, and Consequences