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Teaching Virtue
(2018)Can virtue be taught? The question is a controversial one, harking back to Confucianism and the Platonic dialogues. We assume that virtue can be taught in the sense that teachers can influence character development in ... -
Ten Myths About Character, Virtue and Virtue Education - Plus Three Well-Founded Misgivings
(2013-04-30)Initiatives to cultivate character and virtue in moral education at school continue to provoke sceptical responses. Most of those echo familiar misgivings about the notions of character, virtue and education in virtue – ... -
Theatrical Intervention as a Pathway to Moral Virtue Development
(2015-03-13)Moral virtue development is grounded in social relationships that foster the socioemotional intelligence underlying moral virtue. Recent research shows a decrease in socioemotional intelligence with implications for moral ... -
The Transformation of the Self: Competing Moral Repertoires in Contemporary Java
(2015-03-14)Character and virtue are changing rapidly in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population. The long-praised preference for communal harmony over individual advancement is under great stress. The dominant force ... -
Turning Points: Finding Experiential Forks in the Path to Wisdom and Virtues
(2016-07)This article was published as the lead article in the Self, Motivation & Virtue Project e-Newsletter 06 (July 2016). -
Understanding the Virtue-Relevant Self Through Courage
(2015-03-13)To what extent do differences in who we are predict differences in courage? We propose to de-velop a measure of the virtue-relevant self, which is composed of self-conception, social roles, virtue-relevant values, and ... -
Virtue Intelligence
(2014-01)The provocative title of this conference is, “Can Virtue Be Measured?” My answer to this question is, “Yes, it can,” and I hasten to add, “It should be.” I began thinking about whether and how to measure virtue when Jennifer ... -
The Virtue of Self-Distancing
(2016-05-07)One develops a moral self, according to Adam Smith, by examining one’s feelings and behavior from a spectators’ point of view. Our first study examines this claim by asking participants to split $10 between themselves and ... -
The Virtue of Self-Distancing
(2015-03-14)According to Adam Smith, developing a moral self requires psychological distance: the ability to adopt a perspective outside of oneself, and then examine and regulate one’s feelings and behavior from that point of view. ... -
Virtue, Practical Wisdom and Character in Teaching
(2014-06)Recent reflection on the professional knowledge of teachers has been marked by a shift away from more reductive competence and skill-focused models of teaching towards a view of teacher expertise as involving complex ... -
Virtues as Properly Motivated, Self-Integrated Traits
(2015-03-13)Contemporary empirical research on virtues has been promising, but limited in depth and value by investigators’ reliance on global self-report questionnaires obtained at a single time-point. These questionnaires require ... -
Virtues as Properly Motivated, Self-integrated Traits
(2016-05-07)We begin by discussing the elements of properly assessed virtue traits that we are studying, including proper motivation, self-integration, continuity over time, and behavioral manifestation. We are documenting the virtues ... -
Who Am I? Investigating the Moral Self
(2015-03-14)Emerging research suggests a crucial link between the self and morality; that is, we define our-selves less by our personality, memory, or agency than by our moral values. Although this work indicates an association between ... -
Whole trait theory: Does it work for virtue?
(2016-05)Nearly a century after the first blow landed for the situationist argument, Whole Trait Theory was offered as a new model of traits, one that benefited from the situationists’ points. Whole Trait Theory argued that there ...