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The Neuroscience of Free Will

Monthly Grant Report – January 2019

Recently Approved Grants Human Sciences Project Title Grantee(s) Project Leader(s) Grant Amount Tracking and Understanding the Effects of Transformative Events in People’s Lives Regents of the University of Michigan Rada Mihalcea; James Pennebaker $1,684,328 Systematic Review and Analysis of US Federal Investments in Research on Religion and Health University of Connecticut Crystal Park; John Salsman $234,207 The Third Religion, Economics and Society (RES) Initiative: Making the Economic Study of Religion and Religious Markets a Field of the Future Chapman University Jared Rubin $325,346 Divine forgiveness: Phase 1 Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. Frank Fincham $233,994 Religion and human flourishing…

Character, Virtue, Quarantine

The COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for nearly everyone around the world. Even for those whose homes are untouched by the coronavirus itself, daily life, work, and family rhythms have been disrupted. One of the John Templeton Foundation’s core interests is the ways that understanding and cultivating character and virtue can measurably improve human flourishing. Over the past several years, we have commissioned research reviews collecting insights and future questions around the topics — many of which seem especially relevant for the challenges that COVID-19 has brought to the foreground. Generosity. From sewing handmade masks to help protect medical…

The Legacy Paradox: Why We Need the People of the Future as Much as They Need Us

The Character Course: Design, dissemination and evaluation of a church-based small group programme for character development

True Stories Well Told: Using Narrative to Search For Harmonies Between Science and Religion

NOVA Programming on the Cosmos

Promoting Character Strength Development in Youths Through Interactive Storytelling Online: A Pilot Project

Best of All Possible Worlds?

A molecular complexity approach to identifying bio-signatures, shadow-life, and new life forms