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Research in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary takes place within the context of Travis Research Institute (TRI). TRI is committed to fostering interdisciplinary research into the relationships between social systems, environmental situations, personality, mental and affective states, cognitive processes, neurobiological functions, and spiritual and religious states and practices. An important role of TRI is the establishment and maintenance of a research infrastructure that encourages large-scale collaborative research and facilitates obtaining research funding for the various projects. Dr. Warren Brown and his collaborators were awarded $200,000 for continued research on the neuroscience of virtue, and to host a multi-day conference related to their grant, “The Rationality of Ultimate Value: Emotion, Awareness, and Causality in Virtue Ethics and Decision Neuroscience”. The conference will include a series of lectures, workshops, and working groups to be joint-hosted by the Travis Research Institute and the California Institute of Technology. The funding for this conference was provided by the Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series (STARS) program at the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences. The research team includes scholars from South Dakota State University, Azusa Pacific University, California Institute of Technology, and Scripps College. Read more » Dr. Linda Wagener returned from a fascinating research trip following the Asia Silk road. The aim of her project is to examine thriving and resilience in emerging adults under diverse cultural conditions. This project generously supported by the Thrive Foundation for Youth will have significant implications for the development of thriving assessment tools that are sensitive to cultural differences, hence globally useful. Read more » The University of Oxford, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology awarded Dr. James Van Slyke, Research Assistant Professor at Fuller, a ₤13,500 grant. The project entitled “Integrating Theology and Cognition: Theological and Philosophical Issues in the Cognitive Science of Religion” will allow Dr. Van Slyke to conduct philosophical research, construct formal papers and produce a book manuscript. |
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