FEATURED RESEARCH PROJECT
Compassionate Love Research
Since 2001, the Fetzer Institute has supported more than thirty scientific studies on compassionate love and altruistic love. Nine new studies explore compassionate love within a broad range of relationships, including marital, parent-child, families, intergroup, and relations between religious and cultural groups.
FEATURED RESEARCHER
Richard J. Davidson, PhD
Dr. Richard Davidson is known for a body of research that indicates how contemplative practices such as meditation change how the brain behaves. Davidson is currently leading the Fetzer Initiative on the Neuroscience of Compassion, Love, and Forgiveness at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Websites of Interest
Organizations and programs that have an affinity with our work are listed below:
The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona »
The Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Columbia University »
Greater Good Science Center, University of California Berkeley »
The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love »
Mind and Life Institute »
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies »
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Science & Spirituality  Scientific research and spiritual inquiry can lead to a deeper understanding of love and forgiveness. We explore the foundations of love and forgiveness through intentional, purposeful inquiry based on scientific methods, in-depth dialogue, and spiritual practice. Learn more about how we approach our work.
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