The cultural salience of moral character and virtue declined in twentieth century America

Journal of Positive Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 471-480

  Kesebir, Pelin ^a   Kesebir, Selin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

culture; culturomics; moral character; morality; values; virtue

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868558564     PISSN: 17439760     EISSN: 17439779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2012.715182     Document Type: Article

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