Recently Approved Grants

Human Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Are planned analyses more reliable than discoveries? A test of the efficacy of preregistration	Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	Bethany Teachman	$169,909
From reality to representation: Exploring the role of anxiety as a moderator in the development of beliefs about supernatural powers	Trustees of Boston University	Kathleen Corriveau, Telli Davoodi	$234,800
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Religion, Family Size, and Child Success	University of Otago	John Shaver, Mary Shenk	$2,380,604
Faith and Beliefs of “Nonbelievers”	Česká křesťanská akademie, z.s.	Tomáš Halík, Pavel Hošek	$675,888
The transmission of religion across generations: a comparative international study of continuities and discontinuities in family socialization	Westfälische Willhelms-Universität Münster	Christel Gaertner, Kati Tervo-Niemelä	$1,944,155
Certain Religious Beliefs May Foster Resilience in the Face of Economic Adversity	Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia	Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi, Will Gervais	$153,748

 

Natural Sciences

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Increasing Complexity: The First Rule of Evolution?	The University of Bath	Matthew Wills, Marcello Ruta	$793,292
The Roots of Gratitude	Trustees for Roman Catholic Purposes	Celia Deane-Drummond, Penny Spikins	$218,555

 

Philosophy and Theology

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Cosmology Beyond Spacetime	Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	Nicholas Huggett, Christian Wuthrich	$599,991
Towards understanding a unified mind	University of Amsterdam	Yair Pinto, Victor Lamme	$805,519

Character Virtue Development

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing Strategic Planning Initiative	The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma	Nancy Snow	$134,366
Martin Institute Emerging Leaders Project	Westmont College	Samuel Kimbriel, Gary Moon	$229,578

Voluntary Family Planning

Project Title	Grantee(s)	Project Leader(s)	Grant Amount
A randomized evaluation of scalable interventions to address factors causing fertility to exceed privately desired family size in Burkina Faso	Innovations for Poverty Action	Seema Jayachandran	$390,099

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Grantees in the News

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
How We Can Avoid Escalating Arguments	September 26, 2019	Futurity	Developing the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom
The Explosive Science of Epigenetics	September 26, 2019	Elemental	Molecular Etiology of Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease
Philosophers Receive $600K for “Cosmology Beyond Spacetime”	September 26, 2019	DailyNous	Cosmology Beyond Spacetime
McLean successfully integrates spirituality and religion with mental health treatment	September 19, 2019	EurekAlert!	Enhancing Practice-Based Evidence for Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapies: An Interdisciplinary Big Data Project
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked	September 10, 2019	The Atlantic	Consciousness and Free Will: A Joint Neuroscientific-Philosophical Investigation
Largest-ever ancient-DNA study illuminates millennia of South and Central Asian prehistory	September 10, 2019	EurekAlert!	The Ancient DNA Atlas of Humanity
Human flourishing in an age of gene editing	September 3, 2019	EurekAlert!	Gene Editing and Human Flourishing
Complex Birdsongs Help Biologists Piece Together the Evolution of Lifelong Learning	September 3, 2019	The Conversation	Novel cultural approaches to human evolution

 

Research Publications

Article Title	Date	Publication	Related Project Title
Theoretical equivalence and duality	September 24, 2019	Synthese	The Black Hole Initiative: Towards a Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Distinct patterns of thought mediate the link between brain functional connectome and psychological well-being	September 8, 2019	bioRxiv	Prospective Psychology Stage 2: A Research Competition
The association between Extraversion and well‐being is limited to one facet	September 6, 2019	Journal of Personality	Well-Being: Investigations in Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Religious Studies
The Value of Character-Based Judgement in the Professional Domain	September 5, 2019	Journal of Business Ethics	Transformative Britain
Kombucha: a novel model system for cooperation and conflict in a complex multi-species microbial ecosystem	September 3, 2019	PeerJ	Generous by nature: Need-based transfers and the origins of human cooperation
Absence of a thick atmosphere on the terrestrial exoplanet LHS 3844b	September 1, 2019	Nature	The Alien Earths Initiative
Scientific Utopia III: Crowdsourcing Science	September 1, 2019	Perspectives on Psychological Science	Center for Open Science – Openness, integrity, and reproducibility: Aligning scientific practices with scientific values to accelerate discovery