Finalist Symposium

TEMPLETON SCIENCE OF PROSPECTION AWARDS The Prospective Psychology Project University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center FINALIST SYMPOSIUM: AUGUST 4–5, 201 4 37 01 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 191 04 www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu Special Thanks to The John Templeton Foundation TEMPLETON SCIENCE OF PROSPECTION AWARDS Table of Contents Sponsors ...............................................1 Science of Prospection Steering Committee ..........2 Symposium Agenda Overview ........................6 Day One Presentation Schedule ......................8 Day Two Presentation Schedule .....................10 Science of Prospection Proposal Abstracts ...........12 SPONSORS The Prospective Psychology Project Some of the goals of Positive Psychology are to build a science that supports: Supported by a grant from the John Templeton • Families and schools that allow children to flourish Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Positive • Workplaces that foster satisfaction and high Psychology Center has established the Prospective productivity Psychology Project to advance the scientific understanding of prospection, or the mental • Communities that encourage civic engagement representation of possible futures. To foster this • Therapists who identify and nurture their patients’ new field of research, the Prospective Psychology strengths Project announced the Templeton Science of • The teaching of Positive Psychology Prospection Awards competition in 2013. The awards will encourage research aimed at understanding • Dissemination of Positive Psychology interventions prospection, particularly how prospection is in organizations and communities measured, mechanisms of prospection, and how prospection can be improved and applied in a broad To learn more about the Positive Psychology Center, array of disciplines. To learn more about Prospective please visit www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu. Psychology, please visit www.prospectivepsych.org. The John Templeton Foundation The University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philan - thropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big The Positive Psychology Center promotes research, Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality. training, education, and the dissemination of Positive We support research on subjects ranging from com - Psychology. This field is founded on the belief that plexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgive - people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, ness, love, and free will. We encourage civil, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and informed dialogue among scientists, philosophers, to enhance their experiences of love, work, and play. and theologians and between such experts and the public at large, for the purposes of definitional clar - Positive Psychology has three central concerns: ity and new insights. positive emotions, positive individual traits, and positive institutions. Understanding positive Our vision is derived from the late Sir John Temple - emotions entails the study of contentment with the ton’s optimism about the possibility of acquiring past, happiness in the present, and hope for the “new spiritual information” and from his commit - future. Understanding positive individual traits ment to rigorous scientific research and related consists of the study of the strengths and virtues, scholarship. The Foundation’s motto, “How little we such as the capacity for love and work, courage, know, how eager to learn,” exemplifies our support compassion, resilience, creativity, curiosity, integrity, for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advanc - self-knowledge, moderation, self-control, and wisdom. ing human progress through breakthrough discover - Understanding positive institutions entails the study ies. of the strengths that foster better communities, such as justice, responsibility, civility, parenting, To learn more about the John Templeton nurturance, work ethic, leadership, teamwork, Foundation, please visit www.templeton.org purpose, and tolerance. 1 SCIENCE OF PROSPECTION STEERING COMMITTEE Martin E.P. Seligman, Principal Investigator Roy F. Baumeister Dr. Seligman graduated Summa Roy F. Baumeister is currently Cum Laude from Princeton the Eppes Eminent Scholar and in 1964 and received his Ph.D. Professor of Psychology at in psychology from the University Florida State Univer sity. He of Pennsylvania in 1967. He is received his Ph.D. in social currently the Zellerbach Family psychology from Princeton in Professor of Psychology and 1978 and did a postdoctoral Director of the Positive Psychology fellowship in sociology at the Center at the University of University of California at Pennsylvania. He was elected President of the Ameri - Berkeley. He spent over two decades at Case Western can Psychological Association in 1996 by the largest Reserve University. He has also worked at the vote in history. Dr. Seligman works on learned University of Texas, the University of Virginia, the helplessness, depression, optimism, positive psychology Max-Planck-Institute, the VU Free University of and comprehensive soldier fitness. His research has Amsterdam, the University of California at Santa been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Barbara, and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study the National Science Foundation, the John Templeton in the Behavioral Sciences. Baumeister’s research Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Guggen - spans multiple topics, including self and identity, heim Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, and self-regulation, interpersonal rejection and the need the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. to belong, sexuality and gender, aggression, self- esteem, meaning, and self-presentation. He has Dr. Seligman is a best-selling author, having written received research grants from the National Institutes 25 books which have been translated into more of Health and from the Templeton Foundation. He than 35 languages. His best-sellers include Learned has over 500 publications, and his 31 books include Optimism (Knopf, 1991), The Optimistic Child Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty , The Cultural (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), and Authentic Happiness Animal , Meanings of Life , and the New York Times (Free Press, 2002). His latest is Flourish (Free Press, bestseller Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest 2011). He is the recipient of three Distinguished Human Strength . The Institute for Scientific Infor - Scientific Contribution awards from the American mation lists him among the handful of most cited Psychological Association, the Laurel Award of the (most influential) psychologists in the world. He has American Association for Applied Psychology received lifetime achievement awards from the and Prevention, and the Lifetime Achievement Society for Personality and Social Psychology, from Award of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. the International Society for Self and Identity, and Dr. Seligman received both American Psychological most recently the Association for Psychological Society’s Williams James Fellow Award (for contribu - Science’s highest honor, the William James Award. tion to basic science) and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award (for the application of psychological knowledge). He received the inaugural Wiley Psychology Lifetime Award of the British Academy for lifetime contributions to Psychology in 2009. He holds four honorary doctorates, including the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Complutense University, Spain. 2 Randy Buckner Laurie Santos Randy Buckner is Professor of Laurie Santos is Associate Psychology and of Neuroscience Professor of Psychology at Yale at Harvard University and University and the director of affiliated with the Center for Yale University’s Comparative Brain Science. He is also Cognition Laboratory. Laurie Professor at the Harvard Medical received her B.A. in Psychology School and the Director for and Biology from Harvard Psychiatric Neuroimaging University in 1997 and her Research at the Massachusetts Ph.D. in Psychology from Har - General Hospital. He received his Ph.D. degree in vard in 2003. Her research explores the evolutionary neuroscience from Washington University, under the origins of human cognition by studying the cognitive direction of Steven Petersen and Marcus Raichle. capacities present in nonhuman primates. She has He trained with Bruce Rosen as a postdoctoral fellow investigated a number of topics in comparative and then Instructor of Radiology at Harvard cognition, including primates, understanding of Medical School, where he pioneered new functional objects and physics, how primates reason about others’ MRI methods to study human memory. Over the minds, the evolutionary origins of irrational decision- past decade his work has expanded to include studies making, and the evolution of prosocial behavior. of Alzheimer’s disease and neuropsychiatric illness Laurie’s scientific research has been featured in with a focus on developing biomarkers for disease The New York Times , The Los Angeles Times , The detection and progression. This work has led to a Economist , Forbes , The New Yorker , New Scientist , description of the brain’s default network and how it Smithsonian , and Discover . She has also won numer - is targeted early in the progression of Alzheimer’s ous awards, both for her scientific achievements and disease. Professor Buckner’s awards include the Wiley for her teaching and mentorship. She is the recipient Young Investigator Award from the Organization of of Harvard University’s

Load more