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PROGRAM AREAS

Research proposals are welcome from all scientific disciplines. The following six research program areas have been developed by a team of research consultants who have written extensive white papers. These papers include details about the significance of the research area, history of existing research, methodological considerations, annotated bibliographies, and further elaboration on the sample questions listed below. Interdisciplinary applications that pertain to several program areas are also welcome. All applicants are strongly encouraged to read the white papers before applying. The sample questions below are by no means exhaustive.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

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This research area will focus on analyzing and synthesizing biological, psychological, sociological, spiritual, and religious aspects of the human developmental trajectory that may serve to foster unlimited love and altruism.

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Request for Proposal:

Introduction and Background
Mechanism of Support
Eligibility and Criteria

Program Areas:

  1. Human Development
  2. Public Health and Medicine
  3. Mechanisms by which Altruistic Love Affects Health
  4. Other Regarding Virtues
  5. Evolutionary Perspectives
  6. Sociological Studies of Faith Based Communities

Application Procedures

What are the variables in parent (mother)-child attunement and attachment that produce a gradient toward healthy and even extraordinary other (object) love as opposed to a gradient toward narcissism and even sociopathy? Another way to put the question is: How does parental love received become transduced in the child to the capacity to give love?
Do those high on altruism or empathy scales do better at choosing "attachment solutions" during separation stress or challenge?
Is the generativity that develops in later adult life on a continuum of human development with other-regarding love and unlimited love?
Is there anything we can learn about the human development of altruistic or unlimited love capacity from a greater understanding of the development of cluster B personalities built on the core of entitlement?
What are the neuropsychiatric elements of the human development of love?
What can be learned about the human development of unlimited love from "religious altruism" in the medical context?
What do we know about how we can teach altruistic behavior and empathy?
Is there a genetics of love?
How powerful are the effects of religious experience, belief, and/or behavior on the capacity to love in an exemplary way?
Do conditions of "brokenness" free us from inauthentic or routinized existence and provoke a response of other-regarding love?

 

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