This project aims to amplify the impact of specific research projects from TWCF’s Science of Religious and Spiritual Exercises (SoRSE) priority to scholars and faith leaders through workshops that highlight findings on how the nature of spiritual exercises and their connection to positive change can be understood through psychological science research, as well as theological thought, and pastoral experience.
To address gaps in how polarization develops in humans, this project will leverage researchers across 19 countries to study mechanisms of polarization in 8-12 year olds about topics including religion, science, social justice, and morality.
This project takes a multidisciplinary approach to exploring how infants, and children up to 4 year olds develop reasoning about multiple possibilities, and how traits and environments shape curiosity, belief revision, and intellectual humility.
A cross-disciplinary team at Baylor’s Sleep Neuroscience & Cognition Lab will study how spiritual dreams influence flourishing and religious cognition in young-adult Christians using in-lab dream observation and incubation, and at-home sleep tracking diaries.
This two-year program led by Samuel Kimbriel of Aspen Institutes’s Philosophy & Society Initiative aims to develop a community of philosophical inquiry each year, in which leaders who are responsible for shaping culture (in media, publishing, academia, and politics) can grapple directly with the questions of what virtue looks like in today’s changing and fragmenting world.
The Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences put forth by Josep Call and Amanda Seed at St. Andrews University aims to facilitate interdisciplinary research on diverse forms of intelligence, including animal cognition, human creativity, and artificial general intelligence, supporting the existing DI community and creating a nurturing environment for future DI thinkers.
The received view of scientific experimentation holds that science is characterized by experiment and experiment is characterized by active intervention on the system of interest. Although versions of this view are widely held, they have seldom been explicitly defended...
TOM, a global initiative under the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science aims to advance research on how digital technologies and AI impact open-mindedness, character virtues, and polarization in diverse societies.