Faculty Scholarship
Submissions from 2025
Reasons For Living, Spirituality, and Suicidal Ideation in a Spiritually Integrated Inpatient Program, J. M. Currier, J.D. Foster, Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet, A.D. Abernathy, K. VanHarn, L. Root Luna, and S.A. Schnitker
Submissions from 2022
Accountability and Autonomy, Motivation, and Psychiatric Treatment, John R. Peteet, Charlotte Witvliet, and C. Stephen Evans
Accountability as a Key Virtue in Mental Health and Human Flourishing, John R. Peteet, Charlotte Witvliet, and C. Stephen Evans
Accountability: Construct Definition and Measurement of a Virtue Vital to Flourishing, Charlotte Witvliet, Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, C. Stephen Evans, Jack W. Berry, Joseph Leman, Robert C. Roberts, John Peteet, Andrew B. Torrance, and Ashley N. Hayden
The Eschatological Hope Scale: Construct Development and Measurement of Theistic Eschatological Hope, Charlotte Witvliet, M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall, Julie J. Exline, David C. Wang, Lindsey M. Root Luna, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, David G. Meyers, Alexis D. Abernethy, and John D. Witvliet
Submissions from 2021
The Benefit of Gratitude: Trait Gratitude Is Associated With Effective Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game, Gewnhi Park, Charlotte Witvliet, Jorge A. Barraza, and Benjamin U. Marsha
Submissions from 2020
Conceptualizing Spirituality and Religion as Psychological Processes: Validation of the Factor Structure of the BMMRS, Brick Johnstone, Patricia Bruininks, Erin I. Smith, Dong Pil Yoon, Daniel Cohen, Laird Edman, Joseph Bankard, and Charlotte Witvliet
Apology and Restitution: The Psychophysiology of Forgiveness After Accountable Relational Repair Responses, Charlotte Witvliet, Lindsey M. Root Luna, Everett L. Worthington Jr., and Jo-Ann Tsang
Submissions from 2018
Understanding the Role of Religious Comfort and Strain on Depressive Symptoms in an Inpatient Psychiatric Setting, Alexis D. Abernethy, Joesph M. Currier, Charlotte Witvliet, Sarah A. Schnitker, Katharine M. Putman, Lindsey M. Root Luna, Joshua D. Foster, Andrene Spencer, Heather Jones, Karl VanHarn, and Janet Carter
Gratitude Predicts Hope and Happiness: A Two-study Assessment of Traits and States, Charlotte Witvliet, Fallon J. Richie, Lindsey M. Root Luna, and Daryl R. Van Tongeren
Submissions from 2017
Body Esteem and Appearance-Based Self-Worth: A Test of Religious Moderators in Men and Women, Mary Inman and Charlotte Witvliet
Virtue, Positive Psychology, and Religion: Consideration of an Overarching Virtue and an Underpinning Mechanism, Lindsey M. Root Luna, Daryl R. VanTongeren, and Charlotte Witvliet
Submissions from 2016
Positive Reappraisals After an Offense: Event-related Potentials and Emotional Effects of Benefit-finding and Compassion, Justin C. Baker, John K. Williams, Charlotte Witvliet, and Peter C. Hill
Self-forgiveness and Forgiveness-seeking in Response to Rumination: Cardiac and Emotional Responses of Transgressors, Sérgio P. da Silva, Charlotte Witvliet, and Blake Riek
Submissions from 2015
Insufficient Justification for Exclusion Prompts Compensatory Behavior, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, Lindsey M. Root Luna, and Charlotte Witvliet
Transforming Or Restraining Rumination: The Impact Of Compassionate Reappraisal Versus Emotion Suppression On Empathy, Forgiveness, And Affective Psychophysiology, Charlotte Witvliet, Alicia J. Hofelich Mohr, Nova G. Hinman, and Ross W. Knoll
Submissions from 2012
Do actions speak louder than words? Differential effects of apology and restitution on behavioral and self-report measures of forgiveness, Robert D. Carlisle, Jo-Ann Tsang, Nadia Y. Ahmad, Everett L. Worthington Jr, and Charlotte Witvliet
Empirical Studies of Forgiveness as an Altruistic Response: Relationships with Rumination, Supression of Negative Emotions, and a Benefit-focused Reappraisal, Charlotte Witvliet
Understanding and Approaching Forgiveness as Altruism: Relationships with Rumination, Self-control and a Gratitude-based Strategy, Charlotte Witvliet
Submissions from 2011
A startling absence of emotion effects: Active attention to the startle probe as a motor task cue appears to eliminate modulation of the startle reflex by valence and arousal, Georgia Panayiotou, Charlotte Witvliet, Jason D. Robinson, and Scott R. Vrana
Compassionate reappraisal and emotion suppression as alternatives to offense-focused rumination: Implications for forgiveness and psychophysiological well-being, Charlotte Witvliet, Nathaniel J. DeYoung, Alicia J. Hofelich, and Paul DeYoung
Responding to Our Own Transgressions: An Experimental Writing Study of Repentance, Offense Rumination, Self-justification, and Distraction, Charlotte Witvliet, Nova G. Hinman, Julie J. Exline, and Timothy Brandt
Submissions from 2010
Surprised by Happiness: What I've Learned from Research on Forgiveness and Gratitude, Charlotte Witvliet
Compassion-focused reappraisal, benefit-focused reappraisal, and rumination after an interpersonal offense: Emotion-regulation implications for subjective emotion, linguistic responses, and physiology, Charlotte Witvliet, Ross W. Knoll, Nova G. Hinman, and Paul DeYoung
Submissions from 2008
Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice, And Forgiveness: An Experimental Psychophysiology Analysis, Charlotte Witvliet, Everett L. Worthington, Lindsey M. Root, Amy F. Sato, Thomas E. Ludwig, and Julie J. Exline
Submissions from 2004
Posttraumatic Mental and Physical Health Correlates of Forgiveness and Religious Coping in Military Veterans, Charlotte Witvliet, K. A. Phipps, M. E. Feldman, and J. C. Beckham
Submissions from 2002
Please Forgive Me: Transgressors’ Emotions and Physiology During Imagery of Seeking Forgiveness and Victim Responses, Charlotte Witvliet, Thomas Ludwig, and David L. Bauer
Submissions from 2001
Granting Forgiveness or Harboring Grudges: Implications for Emotion, Physiology, and Health, Charlotte Witvliet, Thomas Ludwig, and Kelly L. Vander Laan
