Sonia Carrillo

Sonia Carillo is a psychologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has a Ph.D. degree in Developmental Psychology and Education from the University of Texas-Austin. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). She co-directs a research group that focuses on significant-close relationships across the life span. In recent years she has been studying character strengths and well-being in children and adolescents, and she and her research team got a Templeton grant to develop a gratitude curriculum for elementary schools in Bogotá.