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Latest papers
Advocacy through storytelling: challenging eating disorders and eating disorders stigma.
Journal of eating disorders · 2024 · senior author
The Role of Wisdom in the Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Chinese Visiting Scholars to Canada: A Mediation Model.
Frontiers in psychology · 2022
Wisdom: Meaning, structure, types, arguments, and future concerns.
Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022 · senior author
Latest funding
- $120,000
Exploring the Challenges of Migration Among Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in Canada and Addressing Them Through a Trauma-Informed, Culturally-Responsive Mobile Mental Health Intervention
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
- $197,055
Wise life management among Iranian immigrants and Syrian refugees
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $64,493
A cross-cultural study of wisdom
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
16 publications.
Advocacy through storytelling: challenging eating disorders and eating disorders stigma.
Habibagahi K, Ferrari M
The Role of Wisdom in the Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Chinese Visiting Scholars to Canada: A Mediation Model.
Bao D, Zhou L, Ferrari M, Feng Z, Cheng Y
Wisdom: Meaning, structure, types, arguments, and future concerns.
Zhang K, Shi J, Wang F, Ferrari M
Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis.
Kim JJ, Munroe M, Feng Z, Morris S, Al-Refae M, Antonacci R, Ferrari M
A Self-Compassion and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Mobile Intervention (Serene) for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress: Promoting Adaptive Emotional Regulation and Wisdom.
Al-Refae M, Al-Refae A, Munroe M, Sardella NA, Ferrari M
Stronger resting-state neural oscillations associated with wiser advising from the 2nd- but not the 3rd-person perspective.
Huang C, Zhang H, Huang J, Duan C, Kim JJ, Ferrari M, Hu CS
Effects of Causal Attribution and Implicit Mind-Set on Wisdom Development.
Alhosseini F, Ferrari M
Sadder but wiser: Emotional reactions and wisdom in a simulated suicide intervention.
Hu CS, Huang J, Ferrari M, Wang Q, Xie D, Zhang H
Effects of wisdom and religiosity on subjective well-being in old age and young adulthood: exploring the pathways through mastery and purpose in life.
Ardelt M, Ferrari M
"It was the best worst day of my life": Narrative Content, Structure, and Process in Wisdom-Fostering Life Event Memories.
Weststrate NM, Ferrari M, Fournier MA, McLean KC
Exploring the Challenges of Migration Among Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in Canada and Addressing Them Through a Trauma-Informed, Culturally-Responsive Mobile Mental Health Intervention
Principal investigators: Al-Refae, Mohamed Abdel-Sattar El-Sayed
Keywords: Acculturation; Coping And Emotion Regulation; Depression; Immigrants; Middle Eastern And North African (Mena); Mobile Mental Health Intervention; Resilience; Stigma; Stress; Trauma
Wise life management among Iranian immigrants and Syrian refugees
Principal investigators: Ferrari, Michel
Keywords: optimal human development; wisdom; immigrant and refugee acculturation; quality of life
A cross-cultural study of wisdom
Principal investigators: Ferrari, Michel
Keywords: wisdom; culture; development; narrative; wisdom scales; quality of life
Decision-makers forum series
Principal investigators: Scardamalia, Marlene
Keywords: decision-makers; virtual forum; knowledge building; leadership; educational change; educational policy; knowledge mobilization; video conferencing
Teaching for wisdom
Principal investigators: Ferrari, Michel
Keywords: wisdom; education; human development
Understanding and developing adaptive ethical expertise through cases about informed consent.
Principal investigators: Ferrari, Michel
Keywords: Informed consent; adaptive expertise; ethics; learning.
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