The emerging science of virtue

BJ Fowers, JS Carroll, ND Leonhardt… - Perspectives on …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Numerous scholars have claimed that positive ethical traits such as virtues are important in
human psychology and behavior. Psychologists have begun to test these claims. The scores …

Toward a unified framework for positive psychology interventions: Evidence-based processes of change in coaching, prevention, and training

J Ciarrochi, SC Hayes, LG Oades… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Since 2000, research within positive psychology has exploded, as reflected in dozens of
meta-analyses of different interventions and targeted processes, including strength spotting …

Examining the pro-self and prosocial components of a calling outlook: A critical review

R Hart, D Hart - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Work on callings has burgeoned in the past 20 years, yet recent reviews exposed a lack of
conceptual clarity and disagreements around its definition, components and measures. One …

Sustainable entrepreneurship: Factors influencing opportunity recognition and exploitation

S Sarma, S Attaran, M Attaran - The International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Sustainable entrepreneurship integrates economic, environmental, and social into a firm's
goals, activities, and planning to create a long-term value for the firm, its stakeholders, and …

Social relations and presence of others predict bystander intervention: Evidence from violent incidents captured on CCTV

LS Liebst, R Philpot, W Bernasco… - Aggressive …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Are individuals willing to intervene in public violence? Half a century of research on the
“bystander effect” suggests that the more bystanders present at an emergency, the less likely …

Untying the text: Organizational prosociality and kindness

R Hart, D Hart - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The scholarly field of organizational prosociality is experiencing a renewed interest, yet
despite its long track record, researchers still disagree on the definitions of primary concepts …

Integrating the humanities and the social sciences: six approaches and case studies

B Case, TJ VanderWeele - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2024 - nature.com
The social sciences are still young, and their interaction with older siblings such as
philosophy and theology is still necessarily tentative. This paper outlines three ways in …

Social stress in human-machine systems: opportunities and challenges of an experimental research approach

J Sauer, A Sonderegger, S Thuillard… - Theoretical Issues in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents some deliberations on methodological approaches to researching the
effects of work-related social stress on performance, with particular consideration being …

Realistic virtues and how to study them: Introducing the STRIVE-4 model

B Cokelet, BJ Fowers - Journal of Moral Education, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article argues that ordinary virtue trait attributions presuppose the existence of realistic
traits that fall short of, for example, Aristotelian ideals and that debate about the existence of …

Does trait interpersonal fairness moderate situational influence on fairness behavior?

BJ Fowers, AA Lane, JM Abbamonte, SF Lang… - Personality and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although fairness is a key moral trait, limited research focuses on participants' observed
fairness behavior because moral traits are generally measured through self-report. This …