🧠 Psychology

• 🕉️Infinite Reflection

  What you learn when you let LLMs follow their bliss

• 🤖When a Claude Meets a Claude

  AI stress tests and the "spiritual bliss" attractor

• 🔮Future Selves, Future Others

  Explore how our connection to future selves influences decisions today, from Malthus's theories to modern psychological experiments.

• 🧠Freud & Jung, The Original Dream Team

  Talking cures, death wishes, and the fraught origins of modern psychology.

• 📚Bad Education

  How self-discipline impacts educational outcomes and why it may favor girls over boys in school performance. But is it always an asset?

• 🍷A Glass at Least Half Full

  Explore how cultures embody optimism through literature and debate whether this outlook is rational or delusional in our latest study review.

• 🗣️What’s the Word?

  How gossip evolved from a term of kinship to a tool for social bonding and information sharing, tracing its journey from Shakespeare to evolutionary psychology.

• 🎭The Overconfidence Game

  Explore the Dunning-Kruger effect's latest revelations as experts and non-experts test their limits of self-awareness in new, illuminating experiments.

• ⏳A Most Taxing Delay

  Why, oh why, do we wait? Tax procrastination and its costly psychological underpinnings.

• 🧠Positive Neuroscience

  How our brains are wired for joy, resilience, and well-being.

• 🤔Q&A with Nathan Ballantyne

  Nathan Ballantyne shares insights on enhancing human judgment.

• 🎵Call and Response

  How music's rhythmic bonds shape social behaviors and foster connections, from toddlers to adults.

• 🔮What Is Future-Mindedness?

  Prospection, a blend of memory and imagination, shapes our decisions and survival strategies through "mental time travel."

• 🧠The Power of Positive Self-Talk

  Discover how Ethan Kross applies groundbreaking psychology to transform middle school education with the power of positive self-talk.

• 🧠What Is Religious Cognition?

  Explore how beliefs in the divine shape our lives and decisions, in this deep dive into the underexplored field of religious cognition.

• 🤔What Is Intellectual Humility?

  Explore the nuanced realm of intellectual humility, a vital virtue that balances curiosity and conviction, enhancing our understanding and discourse.

• 🔬Is One of Biology’s Perennial Themes Ready For a Fresh Look? Alan Love on the Science of Purpose.

  University of Minnesota philosopher Alan Love studies the interplay between philosophy and biology.

• 🌌Paul Davies on ‘What’s Eating the Universe?’

  Paul Davies explores the universe's deepest mysteries, from the origins of the cosmos to the possibility of time travel, in his latest thought-provoking book.

• 🤔One Million Years Ago, How Did Humans Think?

  Fossil digs and fMRIs offer new insights into the ways early humans lived and thought, more than a million years ago.

• 🀄Cross-Training to Understand Confucian Culture

  A multidisciplinary investigation of ‘How China Became Chinese.’

• 🌟Hope and Optimism - The White Paper

  A new report explores the benefits of two related virtues.

• 📊Religion Data, Remixed

  Retooling a Key Resource for Research on Religion

• 🎓Promoting Intellectual Humility in Classrooms

  A new project will help gauge how students feel realizing the limits of their understanding — and ways they can positively respond

• 🔍The Honesty Project

  A new three-year project to investigate the science and philosophy of an understudied virtue.

• 🔍collaborative-inquiries-in-christian-theological-anthropology

  A new project will foster interdisciplinary work — informed by both science and theology — on what it means to be human

• 🎓Building Virtues through College Admissions

  Explore how Harvard's initiative reshapes college admissions by prioritizing ethical character and creating tailored tools for assessing student virtues.

• 🧠Unfolding Quantum Intuition

  Citizen scientists are using gameplay to help scientists understand more about what makes us uniquely human.

• 🎓Five Questions with Jason Marsh

  Jason Marsh of GGSC explores emotional well-being strategies during COVID-19 in a lively Q&A session. Discover how virtues can navigate personal and collective crises.

• 🏡Character, Virtue, Quarantine

  Explore how virtues like gratitude and cooperation shape our resilience in the face of pandemic disruptions, guided by new research from the John Templeton Foundation.

• 🧠Mental Healthcare, Virtue, and Human Flourishing

  Gratitude, humility, forgiveness, and other positive qualities may have a lot to offer in both psychological research and clinical practice.

• 🌍Accurately Measuring Religious Belief and Attitudes Around the World

  Want to find out the prevalence of atheism? Maybe don’t ask.

• 🍎Greater Good in Education

  New website gives educators research-based practices for kinder, happier schools

• 🧠Training Faculty to Tackle the Big Questions of Today and Tomorrow

  A new round of fellowships will equip tenured philosophers and theologians to dive deeply into the empirical sciences

• 🤝The Development of Forgiveness

  Studies shed light on how preschoolers recognize remorse in others and learn to forgive

• 🧠SelfBound - The Making of Human Consciousness

  How making makes us who we are

• 🙏Certain Religious Beliefs May Foster Resilience in the Face of Economic Adversity

  Tilting a game’s odds in someone’s favor may increase their karmic beliefs

• 🧠The Neuroscience of Self-Determination

  An ambitious new project aims to expand the scientific understanding of human autonomy

• 🔌The Power of Unplugging

  Encouraging people to spend one day a week screen-free

• 🌀How Life’s Upheavals Shape Us

  A Big Data Approach to Mapping the Effects of Transformative Events

• 🕊️What Counts As Religious Experience?

  A new survey framework aims to give researchers better tools to compare extraordinary human experiences.

• 🗣️The Art of Meaningful Conversations

  Pushing the brain beyond its evolutionary constraints, one conversation at a time.

• 📚How Does Religious Participation Affect Human Flourishing?

  New research to evaluate long-term links between spiritual practice and physical, mental and social well-being

• 🙏The Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology of Christian Trust in God

  Historical perspective meets cutting-edge practice in new investigations into a central but little-understood aspect of religious life

• 🤲Nudging Empathy

  New interventions may help people open up when confronted with others’ needs

• ❤️A Scientific Approach to Living in Love

  Kindling new connections in the study of friendship, romance, and affection

• 🌟Motivational Consequences of Sanctifying Difficult Experiences

  From the hero’s journey to the walk-a-thon, the idea that suffering builds character may be a powerful tool for unlocking achievement.

• 🧠Automated Self-Control - The Neuropsychology of Developing Good Habits

  In praise of mindlessness

• 🤔Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Divine Providence, and Human Relationships with God

  Who gets to play the blame game?

• 🤝Need-based transfers and the origins of human cooperation

  Giving without expecting repayment is not only more common than previously thought, it may also be more crucial for cultures to survive and flourish

• 🤔The Problem of Evil and Experimental Philosophy of Religion

  What does it take for the idea of God to become philosophically untenable? It may depend on who you ask.