Classical sources of human strength: Revisiting an old home and building a new one.
M McCullough, C Snyder Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 2000
A virtue is defined as any psychological process that enables a person to think and act so as to benefit both him- or herself and society. Character is a higher-order construct reflecting the possession of several of the component virtues. The process by which the topics of virtue and character fell out of favor in psychology is reviewed,...