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Van Tongeren亚洲色吧檚 work has been supported by numerous external grants, including currently a three-year, $509,623 award from the John Templeton Foundation to lead a study seeking to understand the spirituality of those who have left the church, which he is conducting with colleagues at Duke University and Case Western. He is also a co-principal investigator on another current project funded by the John Templeton Foundation, 亚洲色吧淎pplied Research on Intellectual Humility: A Request for Proposals,亚洲色吧� which received a $6 million grant from the foundation in 2022.
His other publications include more than 200 scholarly articles and chapters, as well as the books 亚洲色吧淗umble: Free yourself from the traps of a narcissistic world亚洲色吧� (2022) and 亚洲色吧淭he Courage to Suffer: A New Clinical Framework for Life亚洲色吧檚 Greatest Crises亚洲色吧� (2020), the latter of which he co-authored with his wife, Sara, who is a licensed social worker.
Van Tongeren has received multiple national and international honors for his scholarship, including, in 2021: the Early Career Contributions Award from the International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology (ISSEP); being named a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science; a 亚洲色吧�10 Under 10亚洲色吧� alumni award for 2021 from Virginia Commonwealth University, from which he holds his doctorate; and the Margaret Gorman Early Career Award of the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, a division of the American Psychological Association. In addition, in 2020 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and in 2019 he was elected a Fellow by both the Midwestern Psychological Association and the International Society for Science and Religion. The APS had previously named him a Rising Star in 2016.
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