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    • Understanding the Virtue-Relevant Self Through Courage 

      Pury, Cynthia; Starkey, Charles; Sullivan, Emily (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 

      Snow, Nancy (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 

      Herold, Warren; Sowden, Walter (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 

      Herold, Warren; Kross, Ethan; Sowden, Walter (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. ...

    • Virtues as Properly Motivated, Self-Integrated Traits 

      Fowers, Blaine; Cokelet, Bradford; Laurenceau, Jean-Philippe (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 

      Fowers, Blaine (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 

      Prinz, Jesse; Gomez-Lavin, Javier; Nichols, Shaun; Stohminger, Nina (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? 

      Fleeson, William; Jayawickreme, Eranda (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 ...