Patty Van Cappellen at Duke University, Ward B. Davis at Wheaton College, and team will explore flourishing-related benefits and challenges of virtual religious service participation among US evangelical and Black Protestant Christians with congregants of churches where digital worship is common.
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.
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 Jubilee Centre will conduct a landscape review with recommendations to help guide and accelerate the dissemination of findings from forgiveness science to mental health professionals, educators, and faith leaders.