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Philosophy & Theology

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Character Virtue Development

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Non-believers do not lack morality, research suggests May 28, 2019 The Daily Mail Understanding Unbelief
WSU researcher on Roundup exposure: ‘We should be concerned about our great-grandchildren’ May 17, 2019 K5 News Molecular Etiology of Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease
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The Grateful Don’t Cheat: Gratitude as a Fount of Virtue May 30, 2019 Psychological Science Gratitude as a Fount of Virtue: Examining How Gratitude Fosters Other Noble Character Traits
Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa  May 30, 2019  Science The Ancient DNA Atlas of Humanity
Human Flourishing in Cross Cultural Settings. Evidence From the United States, China, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Mexico  May 29, 2019  Frontiers in Psychology Advancing Health, Religion, and Spirituality Research from Public Health to End of Life
The proximal experience of awe  May 23, 2019 PLoS ONE How can people become lastingly more humble? Development of a long-term humility-boosting program
Identity fusion, outgroup relations, and sacrifice: A cross-cultural test  May 11, 2019 Cognition The Emergence of Prosocial Religions: How Cultural Evolution Favored Beliefs and Rituals that Galvanize Large-scale Cooperation
High Precision Test of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for Electrons  May 2, 2019 Condensed Matter Hunt for the “impossible atoms”: the quest for a tiny violation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle. Implications for physics, cosmology and philosophy.
Morphological traits can track coral reef responses to the Anthropocene May 2, 2019 Functional Ecology Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test
Responsibility for Forgetting  May 1, 2019 Philosophical Studies Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP)