During the summer of 2005, Martin Seligman convened a meeting of the world’s leading experts in the emerging field of positive psychology. Held at the University of Pennsylvania, Seligman dubbed ...

This project aims to understand the outcomes of virtues and character strengths for emerging adults as measured through a meta-analysis of existing empirical studies. Develop a deep understanding of ...

In sum, researchers know more than ever about evidence-based practices in character education. Yet policies and curricula emphasize intellectual and performance virtues (e.g., curiosity and ...

Made possible by the Lilly Endowment Inc., this grant funding will allow First-Year Integrated Core faculty to evaluate and improve how to teach character virtues and ethical thinking through ESP 103: ...

But President Holland worried the academy at large was abandoning its traditional concern with character education — with virtue. At BYU, the primacy of character and virtue is conspicuous in ...

Legal scholar Jeffrey Rosen demonstrates in his best seller, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, that good character—virtue—was critical, both for leaders of our young country, and for its citizens.

The intellectual and character virtues and values are not abstractions to Miamians. Critical thinking is exercised in the analysis of texts, faculty mentorship, and in-depth examination of issues.

Peterson and Seligman’s classification of positive values into six moral virtues (wisdom, courage, justice, humanity, temperance, and transcendence) and 24 character strengths (distributed ...