Shared Virtue: The Convergence of Valued Human Strengths across Culture and History

By K. Dahlsgaard, Christopher Peterson, Martin E. P. Seligman. 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Linda Klebe Treviño
2. A. Shirom
3. Nansook Park
4. Martin E. P. Seligman
5. Willibald F. Ruch
6. R. Proyer
7. Christopher Peterson
8. Ernest H. O’Boyle

In Social Psychology

1. Willibald F. Ruch
2. R. Proyer
3. Christopher Peterson
4. Nansook Park
5. Martin E. P. Seligman
6. L. Waters
7. A. Shirom
8. Ruth A. Baer

Citations in the corpus

• Character strengths predict subjective well-being during adolescence (2011, background): “Whereas temperament and personality styles are not morally valued, however, character strengths have a moral meaning, and most of these qualities are valued across cultures and throughout history (Dahlsgaard, Peterson, & Seligman, 2005 ).”
• Behavioral Ethics in Organizations: A Review (2006, background): “Dahlsgaard, Peterson, and Seligman (2005) examined the texts of ancient religions, philosophies, and societies and identified virtues that transcend major cultures (courage, justice, humanity, temperance, wisdom, and transcendence).”
• Positive education: positive psychology and classroom interventions (2009, positive): “The programme targets strengths (eg, kindness, courage, wisdom, perseverance) that are described in the VIA classification (Peterson & Seligman, 2004 ) and that are valued across cultures and throughout history (Peterson & Seligman, 2004 ; Dahlsgaard et al , 2005 ).”
• Toward a theory of business (2015, background): “In the world of positive psychology, Dahlsgaard, Peterson, & Seligman (2005) examined Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions, isolating six core virtues that recur in the writings: courage, justice, humanity, temperance, wisdom, and transcendence.”
• Designing jobs to do good: Dimensions and psychological consequences of prosocial job characteristics (2008, background): “Positive psychologists have contributed to these efforts by examining individual differences in strengths of humanity, which encapsulate love, kindness, and social intelligence, as well as strengths of justice, which encapsulate citizenship, fairness, and leadership (Dahlsgaard, Peterson, & Seligman”
• The Forgiving Organization: A Multilevel Model of Forgiveness at Work (2012, background): “Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and the works of Confucius and Aristotle provide just a few examples of the philosophical and religious contexts in which temperance is historically rooted (Dahlsgaard et al., 2005).”
• Positive Psychology, Ethnocentrism, and the Disguised Ideology of Individualism (2008, background): “To their credit, Dahlsgaard et al. (2005) do note that”
• Explaining Vigor: On the Antecedents and Consequences of Vigor as a Positive Affect at Work (2007, background): “The construct of vigor represents one of the affective states referred to in the emerging research area of positive affect ( Dahlsgaard et al., 2005; Peterson and Seligman, 2004; Snyder and Lopez, 2002).”