November Grant Features

What is Open Science? A Conversation with Nicholas Gibson, Director of Human Sciences	6 Continents, 22 Countries, 240,000 Voices: Creating an Unprecedented Window on How Humans Can Flourish and Change	How ‘Policing for Profit’ Disproportionately Affects Poor and Minority Groups	Over Gravity’s Rainbow	Can We Train Our Brains to Be More Resilient?

 

 

Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Grantee Mentioned
Cry Your Heart Out To Adele: Why Sad Girl Autumn Is The Best Time To Break Up	November 26, 2021	Refinery29	Dacher Keltner, Psychologist at UC Berkeley
Giving thanks during a pandemic: ‘We learn to appreciate things when we lose them’	November 22, 2021	Yahoo!News	Sonja Lyubomirsky, Psychologist at UC Riverside & Robert Emmons, Psychologist at UC Davis
‘Still in a purgatory.’ COVID numbers have risen in Mass. ahead of holidays and winter weather	November 19, 2021	Boston Globe	Samuel Scarpino, Managing Director of Pathogen Surveillance at The Rockefeller Foundation
Baylor And Harvard Team Up For Massive Global Study Of Human Flourishing	November 4, 2021	Forbes	Dr. Tyler VanderWeele, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard & Byron Johnson, Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor
How Technology Fuels the Worst Elements of Group Psychology	November 3, 2021	Thrive Global	Nicholas Christakis, Sociologist at Yale University

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Spiritually integrated psychotherapies in real-world clinical practice: Synthesizing the literature to identify best practices and future research directions.	November 29, 2021	Psychotherapy	Mental Healthcare, Virtue, and Human Flourishing
The Peacock Fallacy: Art as a Veblenian Signal	November 22, 2021	Frontiers in Psychology	Visual Signs as Cognitive Tools: Phylogeny and Ontogeny
Causal Networks and Freedom of Choice in Bell’s Theorem	November 3, 2021	PRX Quantum	Causality in the quantum world: harnessing quantum effects in causal inference problems.
Stress and spirituality in relation to HPA axis gene methylation among US Black women: results from the Black Women’s Health Study and the Study on Stress, Spirituality and Health	November 2, 2021	Epigenomics	National Spirituality and Health Consortium
Hassle costs and workplace charitable giving: Field experiments with Google employees	November 1, 2021	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	The Initiative on Philanthropy and Decision-Making

 

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