Eranda Jayawickreme is the Harold W. Tribble Professor of Psychology (opens in a new window)and senior research fellow at the Program for Leadership and Character(opens in a new window) at Wake Forest University. He received his Ph.D. in positive and social/personality psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. His research, which integrates his interests in both philosophy(opens in a new window) and psychology(opens in a new window), focuses on post-traumatic growth as positive personality change, moral personality, wisdom, well-being, and integrative theories of personality. He has worked with populations in Rwanda, Sri Lanka and various populations in the United States.
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