Paul Wink Information

I received my Ph.D. in personality psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. Currently I am professor of psychology at Wellesley College where I teach courses in clinical psychology and adult development and aging. My publications are in the areas of religiousness and spirituality, adult development, generativity, and narcissism. I am a coauthor with Michele Dillon of In the course of a lifetime: Tracing religious belief, practice, and change (UC Press, 2007), and a coeditor with Jackie James of The crown of life: Dynamics of the early postretirement period (Springer Publishing Co, 2007). Between 1997 and 2000, I directed a follow-up study in late adulthood of participants in the Oakland Growth and Berkeley Guidance studies with a grant from the Open Society Institute. Since then, my research on generativity (caring for others), the development of religiousness and spiritual seeking over the life course, and the relation between religion and positive aging has been supported by grants form the Lilly Foundation, the Fetzer Institute, Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, and the Templeton Foundation. My current research interest is wisdom. I serve on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

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