Virtues such as compassion, patience and self-control may be beneficial not only for others but also for oneself, according to new research my team and I published in the Journal of Personality in ...

A FEW YEARS AGO I found myself in a rather dark place. The bottom had dropped out from under me in several areas of my life. It started when I stopped believing in the religion I grew up in, got worse ...

Philosophers as far back as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle have been interested in character. Aristotle, for example, claimed that our best chance at being deeply fulfilled as human beings is to ...