This project aims to use AI to identify and assess the presence of character strengths in student writing and to then empirically link identified character strengths with flourishing-related outcomes among American and Ghanaian university students.
Jesse Fox and collaborators will investigate the impact of the ancient Christian practice of contemplative prayer on human flourishing through four studies, including a randomized controlled trial in collaboration with the Contemplative Outreach network.
A groundbreaking intervention designed to promote interpersonal forgiveness will be adapted for Egypt, Tunisia, and Iraq. It will be tested with teachers and social workers in Arabic-speaking secular and religious schools.
A scientific roadmap to help forecast and guide human-algorithm behavior toward the common good will be developed.
A training program that covers theoretical, applied, and experiential aspects of forgiveness science and Jewish forgiveness will be developed to help rabbis and Jewish spiritual leaders promote forgiveness within the Jewish context to families and communities.
This convene will consider the alignment between initial data from Harvard’s and Baylor’s Global Flourishing Study with data collected through Oxford’s SAGE Dashboard.
To help facilitate evidence-based mental health care that's compatible with Indonesian religious beliefs, faith leaders will collaborate with psychologists to develop a “mental health toolkit” that can serve as a first point of contact for individuals with psychological or mental health difficulties.
The Philippines is reported to have one of the highest rates of Internet use in the world, as well as high rates of online bullying. This project will develop learning materials with a participatory approach to teach kindergarteners in the Philippines the core character strengths they need to navigate their online and off-line lives.
The sense of agency, the feeling of controlling one’s bodily actions and the world is altered in Depersonalization (DP), a condition that makes people feel detached from one’s self and body. To investigate the link between depersonalization and both implicit and explicit sense of agency, an online study was conducted using the influential Intentional Binding paradigm in a sample of non-clinical DP participants. The results did not reveal significant differences between individuals with low and high occurrences of DP experiences on the implicit and explicit sense of agency. However, participants with high occurrences of DP experiences showed a more time-sensitive explicit sense of agency and greater temporal distortions for short intervals in the absence of self-initiated motion. These results suggest that there is a discrepancy between implicit and explicit sense of agency in people with high levels of depersonalization. Altogether, these findings call for further investigations of the key role of time perception on altered sense of self and agency in both non-clinical and clinical populations, to disentangle the mechanisms associated with the explicit and implicit sense of agency.