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 rigorously examine the effects of labyrinth practice, and to identify psychological and physiological mechanisms that might mediate the practice and outcomes, monitoring factors that might moderate these effects.
As part of a suite of activities designed to advance a more open, accessible, engaging, actionable, and humble form of research, ORCA will work with a group of funders to refine their grantmaking mechanics, ensuring that funding opportunities are accessible to researchers from diverse communities.
Strategic support for researchers on consciousness involved or interested in the Structured Adversarial Collaboration projects that are key to TWCF’s Accelerating Research on Consciousness priority will be provided by this team.
By testing and refining a personalized version of the Healthy Minds Program and app, Richard J. Davidson at UWMadison’s Center for Healthy Minds will explore if personalized training is more engaging and effective than standard one-size-fits-all training.