G. Michael Leffel
Point Loma Nazarene University
10 Papers
68 Citations
G. Michael Leffel is an academic researcher from Point Loma Nazarene University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virtue & Generativity. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 10 publications.
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Developing the Good Physician: Spirituality affects the development of virtues and moral intuitions in medical students
Abigail M. Shepherd,Sarah S. Schnitker,G. Michael Leffel,Ross A. Oakes Mueller,Farr A. Curlin,John D. Yoon,Tyler S. Greenway +6 more
TL;DR: The Project on the Good Physician (POPGPM) is a longitudinal study of moral and professional formation of American physicians over the course of medical training as discussed by the authors, which examined the processes by which spirituality influences the development of three virtues (mindfulness, empathic compassion, and generosity) in medical students as mediated by the moral intuition to care/harm.
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Relevance of the rationalist-intuitionist debate for ethics and professionalism in medical education
TL;DR: The authors argue that this debate about medical ethics education mirrors the Rationalist–Intuitionist debate in contemporary moral psychology, and outline a moral intuitionist model of virtuous caring that derives from but also extends the “social intuitionists model” of moral action and virtue.
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Who Cares? Generativity and the Moral Emotions, Part 1. Advancing the “Psychology of Ultimate Concerns”:
TL;DR: The authors posits that Erik Erikson's notion of generativity is related to the notion of ultimate concerns in the psychology of ultimate concern (Emmons, 1999).
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Emotion and Transformation in the Relational Spirituality Paradigm Part 1. Prospects and Prescriptions for Reconstructive Dialogue
TL;DR: The authors outline a framework for conceptualizing a "Good Life" story (Murphy's MacIntyrean framework), a paradigm for integrating conceptions of moral development and spiritual transformation (relational spirituality paradigm), a theological tradition for clarifying the importance of multiple processes of change (apophatic tradition), and finally an approach to modeling the affective basis of transformation (moral motive analysis).
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Emotion and Transformation in the Relational Spirituality Paradigm Part 3. Amoral Motive Analysis
TL;DR: Emmons et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a moral motive analysis of transformation, a "social intuitionist" approach that both complements and elaborates the theological tradition of orthokardia.
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