Alexandra Rodman was thinking outside the box when she applied for a Templeton Foundation Character Virtue Grant.

The John Templeton Foundation writes that its mission statement is “to support interdisciplinary research and catalyze conversations that inspire awe and wonder.”

Rodman, an assistant professor of psychology at Northeastern University, says that this kind of mission orientation means that most of those who apply to grants through the foundation — at least in her field — “tend to be more social psychologists.”

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