Peter Varga is reading for the DPhil in Experimental Psychology at Christ Church, Oxford.  His research examines the transfer of emotion from composers to listeners through music and the implications of this process for cultural transmission and evolution.  He earned his MS in Psychological Sciences from the College of William & Mary in Virginia where his research focused on higher goods (e.g., unity, truth, goodness, beauty) as indicators of self-transcendent wellbeing.  He joined what is now the Institutional Flourishing Lab whilst an undergraduate at The Catholic University of America where he earned his BA in Psychology with minors in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Theology & Religious Studies.