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Buffering, Porosity and Brain Health in Uganda
An interdisciplinary team including a philosopher, neuroscientist and theologian will examine how kinship relations including ancestral & spiritual actors, influence health-seeking behaviors in Uganda. The project aims to help healthcare evolve in a way that recognizes interconnectedness.
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​Encountering the Divine: Developing a Framework of Religious Intelligence
This project aims to build a critical foundation for understanding what religious intelligences might be and how they interactively arise. It will use social-science research tools to examine "experiencers" who report gaining knowledge directly from God.
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Gratitude Blessings as a Key to Flourishing: The Translational Potential of the Jewish "Nisim B'chol Yom" (Miracles of the Every Day)
This project will investigate whether Nisim B'chol Yom – a Jewish liturgical prayer meant to cultivate a sense of gratitude as a way to connect to the divine – leads to an increase in flourishing-related outcomes.
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Many Labs Learning to Listen
Five research labs around the world will work collaboratively to better understand the experiences of speakers sharing disparate views. They aim to study universal core characteristics and nuances across cultures.
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Meaning, value, purpose, and their place in nature: toward a new, intrinsic scientific ontology
Building on the theoretical framework of IIT, a project team, directed by Giulio Tononi seeks to develop and apply an 'intrinsic ontology' for foundational concepts beyond consciousness.
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Forgiveness and reconciliation rituals: Pathways to depolarization for adolescents in rural Kenya, Cameroon and Ethiopia
Indigenous African forgiveness rituals often peacefully resolve conflicts. We’re funding research to investigate the mechanics of depolarization in these rituals.
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Continuing, expanding, and sustaining the impact of the International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology (ISSEP)
To further cement its work scientifically investigating the psychological significance of existential issues across the globe, we're funding ISSEP.
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Supporting research focused on individual freedom and free markets to help encourage human flourishing across the globe.

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