The promotion of flourishing project seeks to (i) develop and evaluate the properties of a new measure of human flourishing drawing upon happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health,...

Family, Marriage, and Parenting

The project on family,  marraige, and parenting aims to carry out original empirical research on marital and family stability and on parenting and how these relate to relational, health, and life outcomes for...

Religious Communities and Human Flourishing

In the project on Religious Communities and Human Flourishing, we aim to carry out original empirical research on how religious communities affect various aspects of flourishing including health,...

Well-Being and the Workplace

The Well-Being and the Workplace project aims to study how work and workplace policies contribute to flourishing, and how individual flourishing in turn affects work productivity, engagement, and turnover. 

The project...

Determinants of Purpose

The Determinants of Purpose project seeks to understand what brings purpose in life. Nearly everyone desires purpose, and yet we know remarkably little empirically about what leads to purpose in life. The determinants of purpose...

Forgiveness

The Forgiveness project aims to study how forgiveness itself powerfully affects subsequent health and well-being, and seeks to promote forgiveness as a public health issue. Forgiveness, understood as replacing ill-will with good-will towards an offender, can powerfully change lives. Given the nearly universal experience of being wronged, it is important that a commitment to the good of the other be extended, even in difficult circumstances, if we are to move forward and bring about the good in society. This is not an ignoring or denying of the wrong, nor is it a...