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Charlotte V.O. Witvliet, professor of psychology, has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1997. Her teaching responsibilities have included: 

• Introductory Psychology
• Positive Psychology
• Behavior Disorders
• Clinical Psychology
• Internships
• Advanced Research Lab

She loves teaching and mentoring students with a vision to cultivate their competence with compassion so students are prepared for effective and faithful service and leadership in a diverse world.

Prof. Witvliet adopts a bio-psych-social-spiritual approach to study mental health, emotion and virtues (e.g., forgiveness, gratitude, hope, accountability). She has mentored students to become co-authors on a fifth of her 100 publications and over half of the 165 professional conference presentations from her lab. Her student research teams have won 14 Psi Chi Regional Research Awards, and several of her lab students are now psychology professors who mentor their students. 

She has been principal investigator on six external research grants from the Templeton Religion Trust, John Templeton Foundation and the Fetzer Institute. She has been a member of national, multi-year, interdisciplinary work groups on the pursuit of happiness, leading from the soul and living accountably.

Prof. Witvliet has conducted over 150 media interviews about virtues, especially forgiveness, with her research featured in venues such as Time, Newsweek, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, ABC, CBS, Michigan Radio, The Science of Happiness with Public Radio International, and international newspapers. Her research is referenced in blogs and books, including The Book of Joy, co-authored by Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, and The Science of the Virtues: Why Positive Psychology Matters to the Church by Mark McMinn. She has been interviewed for the podcasts such as The Science of Happiness, BioLogos and Hidden Brain.

Areas of expertise

Professor Witvliet鈥檚 primary research contributions have focused on forgiveness and its emotional and physiological side effects. Her team's experiments have tested compassionate and benefit-focused reappraisal strategies that facilitate granting forgiveness.

Additionally, Professor Witvliet has conducted research in trauma, mental health, emotion and psychophysiology. Her lab studies empathy, self-regulation, forgiveness, repentance, self-forgiveness, gratitude, humility, hope and accountability.

Education

Prof. Witvliet was awarded the Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University in 1997. After training as a scientist-practitioner, Prof. Witvliet completed her American Psychological Association predoctoral internship at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center affiliated with Duke University, focusing on trauma and associated disorders, neuropsychological assessment, behavioral medicine, inpatient and outpatient care. 

Honors, grants and awards

• Lavern 鈥�39 and Betty DePree 鈥�41 VanKley endowed professor, 2019鈥�2023
• Midwestern Psychological Association Fellow, 2021
• John H. and Jeanne M. Jacobson endowed professor, 2011鈥�2015
• Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Award, 2008
• Towsley Research Scholar Award, 2000鈥�2004
• Fourteen Psi Chi Regional Research Awards received by student research teams

Professor Witvliet has involved students in all of her external grant-funded research from:

• Templeton Religion Trust
• John Templeton Foundation
• Fetzer Institute
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Selected publications 

• 鈥�,鈥� with A. Hayden*, K. Beltz*, & G. Griffin, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2023.
  
• 鈥�,鈥� with S.J. Jang, B.R. Johnson, C.S. Evans, J.W. Berry, A. Torrance, R.C. Roberts, J. Peteet, J. Leman, and M. Bradshaw, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2023.
  
• 鈥溾�� with S.J. Jang, B.M. Brown, J. Leman, B.R. Johnson, and M. Bradshaw, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2023. (.)
  
• 鈥溾�� with Jang, S. J., Bradshaw, M., Kim, Y-I., Johnson, B. R., & Leman, J.  Review of Religious Research, 2023.
• 鈥溾�� with J.R. Peteet, G. Glas, and B.W. Frush, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2023.
• 鈥�,鈥� with S.J. Jang, B.R. Johnson, C.S. Evans, J.W. Berry, J. Leman, R.C. Roberts, J. Peteet, A. Torrance, A.N. Hayden, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2022.
• 鈥�,鈥� with J.R. Peteet and C.S. Evans, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 2022.
• 鈥溾�� with J.R. Peteet and C.S. Evans, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 2022.
• 鈥�,鈥� with S.L. Blank* and A.J. Gall, Frontiers in Psychology, Emotion Science, Community Series: Expanding the Science of Compassion 鈥� Volume II, 2022
• 鈥�,鈥� with M.E.L. Hall, J. Exline, D.C. Wang, L.M. Root Luna, D.R. Van Tongeren, D.G. Myers, A.D. Abernethy, and J.D. Witvliet, Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 2022.
• 鈥�,鈥� with S. A. Schnitker, J. M. Currier, A. D. Abernethy, J. D. Foster, L. M. Root Luna, K. VanHarn and J. Carter, Journal of Personality, 2021
• 鈥�,鈥� with G. Park, J. A. Barraza and B. U. Marsh, Frontiers in Psychology: Emotion Science, 2021
• 鈥淔orgiveness, embodiment, and relational accountability: Victim and transgressor psychophysiology research,鈥� in E. L. Worthington, Jr. and N. Wade (Eds.), Handbook of Forgiveness, second edition, pp. 167鈥�177. Brunner-Routledge, 2020
• 鈥�,鈥� with L.M. Root Luna, E. L. Worthington, Jr. and J-A Tsang. Frontiers Psychology: Emotion Science, 2020
• 鈥�,鈥� with N. G. Wade, E. L. Worthington, Jr., L. M. Root Luna, D. R. Van Tongeren, J. W. Berry and J-A.Tsang, Journal of Psychology and Theology, 2020
• 鈥�,鈥� with L.M. Root Luna, J.L. VanderStoep, T. Gonzalez and G.D. Griffin, Journal of Positive Psychology, 2019
• 鈥�,鈥� with L.M. Root Luna, R.D. Vlisides-Henry and G.D. Griffin, Journal of Positive Psychology, 2019
• 鈥淧atient patients: Increased patience associated with decreased depressive symptoms in psychiatric treatment,鈥� with S.A. Schnitker, D.B. Ro, J.D. Foster, A.D. Abernethy, J.M. Currier, L.M. Root Luna, K.M. Putman, K. Van Harn and J. Carter, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2019
• 鈥淪piritual struggles and mental health outcomes in a spiritually integrated inpatient program,鈥� with J.M. Currier, J. Foster, A. Abernethy, L.M. Root Luna, S. Schnitker, K. Van Harn and J. Carter, Journal of Affective Disorders, 2019
• 鈥淯nderstanding the role of religious comfort and strain on depressive symptoms in an inpatient psychiatric setting,鈥� with A.D. Abernethy, J.M. Currier, S.A. Schnitker, K.M. Putman, L.M. Root Luna, J.D. Foster, A. Spencer, H. Jones, K. VanHarn and J. Carter, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2019
• &苍产蝉辫;鈥�,鈥� with L.M. Root Luna, J.V. VanderStoep, R.D. Vlisides-Henry, T. Gonzalez and G.D. Griffin, Journal of Positive Psychology, 2018
• 鈥�,鈥� with F.J. Richie, L.M. Root Luna and D.R. Van Tongeren, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2018
• 鈥�,鈥� with L. Root Luna and D.R. Van Tongeren, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 9, 2017
• 鈥淏ody esteem and appearance-based self-worth: A test of religious moderators in men and women,鈥� with M. Inman, Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 36, 2017
• 鈥�,鈥� with J.C. Baker, J.K. Williams and P.C. Hill, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 12, 2017
• 鈥�,鈥� with S.P da Silva and B. Riek, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 12, 2017
• 鈥�,鈥� with A.J. Hofelich Mohr, N.G. Hinman and R.W. Knoll, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 10, 2015
• 鈥�,鈥� with N.J. DeYoung, A.J. Hofelich and P.A. DeYoung, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 6, 2011
• 鈥�,鈥� with N.G. Hinman, J.J. Exline and T. Brandt, Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 30, 2011
• 鈥�,鈥� with R.W. Knoll, N.G. Hinman and P.A. DeYoung, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 5, 2010
• 鈥溾�� with J.J. Exline, R.F. Baumeister, A.L. Zell and A.J. Kraft, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 2008
• 鈥�,鈥� with E.L. Worthington Jr., L.M. Root, A.F. Sato, T.E. Ludwig and J.J. Exline, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 2008
• 鈥�,鈥� with K.A. Phipps, M.E. Feldman and J.C. Beckham, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 17, 2004
• 鈥�,鈥� with T.E. Ludwig and K.L. Vander Laan, Psychological Science, 12, 2001

Outside the college

Professor Witvliet enjoys connecting with people as they discern their vocations 鈥� the ways in which they can use their God-given gifts and opportunities to meet real needs in this world. Witvliet鈥檚 multi-faceted sense of vocation includes co-parenting four children with her husband, John. They love cross-country meets and concerts.