Dr. Juliette Ratchford is the research expert for the Educating Character Initiative at Wake Forest University. Her role is acting as a character measurement consultant for scholars developing and running character programming at American universities. She earned a B.S. from Gardner-Webb University and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Baylor University. Her main research interests lie in the intersection of personality, social, and positive psychology. She is specifically interested in developing contextually-valid, personality-based measures of virtue. Her measurement work to date focuses on goal-based approaches to virtue.

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Juliette Ratchford
Research Expert