Grant Awardees

Empirical Awards (9)

Project Title: Shades of Gratitude: Exploring Divine, Cosmic, and Personal Sources of Gratitude

Principal Investigator: Pamela Ebstyne King
Co- Investigators: Stephanie Trudeau; Susan Mangan
Institution: Fuller Seminary
Funding Amount: $224,705

Project Title: Rules, Relationship, Relief, and Radiance: Setting the Stage for Gratitude to God 

Principal Investigator: Julie Exline
Co- Investigators: Joshua Wilt
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Funding Amount: $224,741

Project Title: Mapping Gratitude to God in Language

Principal Investigator: Lucas Keefer
Institution: University of Southern Mississippi 
Funding Amount: $176,696

Project Title: The Nature of Gratitude to God in Daily Life

Principal Investigator: David Newman 
Co- Investigators: Arthur Stone; Louis Tay
Institution: University of San Francisco 
Funding Amount: $225,000

Project Title: The varieties of gratitude to God

Principal Investigator: Shigehiro Oishi
Institution: University of Virginia
Funding Amount: $224,850

Project Title: Interplay Among Gratitude to God, Favorable and Adverse Life Circumstances, and Religiousness

Principal Investigator: Crystal Park
Co-Investigators: Todd Kashdan
Institution: University of Connecticut 
Funding Amount: $224,936

Project Title: Public Expressions of Gratitude to God on Social Media 

Principal Investigator: Louis Tay
Co- Investigators: David Newman; Munmun De Choudhury
Institution: Purdue University
Funding Amount: $225,000

Project Title: On Thanksgiving: How Gratitude to God is Demonstrated, with Consequences for the Grateful Person and Witnesses

Principal Investigator: Patty Van Cappellen
Co- Investigators: Sara Agloe
Institution: Duke University 
Funding Amount: $224,914

Project Title: The Form and Function of Gratitude to God: Investigating the unique conditions and consequences of Gratitude to God

Principal Investigator: Phillip Watkins
Co- Investigators: Don Davis
Institution: Eastern Washington University
Funding Amount: $225,000

Non-Empirical Awards (6)

Project Title: Gratitude as Religious Ideal and Embodied Practice: An Ethnographic Investigation of Gratitude to God in Contexts of Adversity and Hardship

Principal Investigator: Morgen Chalmiers
Co- Investigators: Thomas Csordas
Institution: UC San Diego
Funding Amount: $84,993

Project Title: How Cosmic Gratitude Works: Why Gratitude to Non-Personal Agents is Possible

Principal Investigator: Caleb Cohoe
Institution: Metropolitan State University of Denver
Funding Amount: $84,980

Project Title: Ingratitude to the Silent God

Principal Investigator: Kent Dunnington
Institution: Biola University
Funding Amount: $84,985

Project Title: To what extent can nonbelievers be grateful to God? 

Principal Investigator: Tony Manela
Institution: Siena College
Funding Amount: $84,248

Project Title: Gratitude to God: Tradition-embedded and Tradition-transcending

Principal Investigator: Charles Mathewes
Institution: University of Virginia
Funding Amount: $85,000

Project Title: Gratitude to God and Relation to the World 

Principal Investigator: Miroslav Volf
Co- Investigators: Ryan McAnally-Linz
Institution: Yale University 
Funding Amount: $72,569