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Character & Virtue
Love
Using the Global Flourishing Study data, we aim to investigate relationships among parental love experienced in early life, divine love experiences, showing love to other, and different domains of flourishing.
Researchers
Matthew T. Lee
Baylor University/ Harvard University , Sociology
Renae Wilkinson
Harvard University, Sociology
Katelyn Long
Harvard University, Public Health
Brendan Case
Harvard University, Theology
James L. Ritche-Dunham
University of Texas-Austin / Harvard University , Business/Economics
Byron R. Johnson
Baylor University, Institute for Studies of Religion/Sociology
Tyler VanderWeele
Harvard University, Epidemiology / Biostatistics
The Question:
How is the experience of being loved by parents in childhood empirically associated with flourishing later in life? What mechanisms explain the relationship?