Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet of the Psychology Department is the recipient of a $72,000 grant from the Fetzer Institute for two studies related to her ongoing study of forgiveness. Her first project contributes to the emerging field of research in self-forgiveness with a focus on relational measures. The second project will be a psychophysiological investigation of relationships among trait and state forgiveness, rumination, suppression, grudge-bearing, revenge-seeking, happiness, flourishing, and cardiovascular physiology.
Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet, Ph.D., joined the faculty in 1997. She trained as a scientist-practitioner clinical psychologist at Purdue University and completed her predoctoral internship at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center affiliated with Duke University. Her teaching responsibilities have included Introductory Psychology, Positive Psychology, Behavior Disorders, Clinical Psychology, Internships, and Advanced Research Lab. In the research laboratory, she has enjoyed mentoring students, many of whom have gone on to graduate school in psychology. She publishes in the field of emotion and psychophysiology research, with a specialized focus on gratitude, unforgiveness, forgiveness, and justice. With the support of the John Templeton Foundation, the Fetzer Institute, the Towsley Research Scholar Award, the Faith and Learning Fund, and the Frost Center for Social Science Research, she has conducted programmatic research on forgiveness, published peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and given professional presentations in local, national, and international venues. Professor Witvliet has mentored 29 Hope College students in psychophysiology research, 16 of whom have co-authored journal articles or professional conference presentations with her, and 9 of whom have co-authored projects winning Psi Chi Regional Research Awards. She has conducted 100 media interviews about forgiveness, with her research featured in venues such as Time, Newsweek, O: The Oprah Magazine, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and CNN.
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