Tudge funded by John Templeton Foundation

Repost from Campus Weekly

Dr. Jonathan Tudge (Human Development and Family Studies) received new funding from the John Templeton Foundation for the project “Gratitude, well-being, and the decline of materialism: A cross-cultural study of character formation in children and adolescents.” This project will provide much-needed data on gratitude and materialism in children and young adolescents, the abstract says. Gratitude is crucial to study, as it creates and strengthens relations among people, is associated with a range of positive benefits both for individuals and groups, and is negatively related with excessive materialism.