Three studies involving dating relationships and friendships tested the hypothesis that higher perceived partner virtues (or personal strengths enacted in the context of relationships) are related to greater relationship problem-solving efficacy. Studies 1 and 2 showed that higher perceived partner virtues were related to more relationship problem-solving efficacy concurrently and longitudinall...

Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) posits that people moralize at least six distinct kinds of virtues. These virtues are divided into “individualizing” and “binding” virtues. Despite widespread enthusiasm for MFT, it is unknown how plausible it is as a model of people’s conceptualizations of the moral domain. In this research, we take a bottom-up approach to characterizing people’s conceptualizatio...

In its recent attention to reasoning that is agent-based and target-driven, logic has re-taken the practical turn and recovered something of its historic mission. In so doing, it has taken on in a quite general way a game-theoretic character, precisely as it was with the theory of syllogistic refutation in the Topics and On Sophistical Refutations, where Aristotle develops winning strategies fo...

Memory plays an important role in everyday life but does not provide an exact and unchanging record of experience: research has documented that memory is a constructive process that is subject to a variety of errors and distortions. Yet these memory "sins" also reflect the operation of adaptive aspects of memory. Memory can thus be characterized as an adaptive constructive process, which plays ...

Monetary intertemporal tradeoffs are a restricted, yet underexplored, domain. In this extended abstract, we provide an integrative analysis of monetary tradeoffs involving single dated outcomes, unmixed sequences, virtues (schedules of investment), and vices (schedules of debt). Results include debt aversion, aversion to vices (which adds to debt aversion) and relative vices, and attraction to ...

Civic virtue is generally understood as relating to a specific polity and in that way to be distinct from virtues appropriate to a human being as such, the subject matter of most "virtue theory." This conception does not rule out "universal" civic virtues-ones appropriate to membership in a "world community"-and some theorists speak of and advocate some form of such "world citizenship." Neverth...

This paper compares epistemic virtue from the viewpoints of Zagzebski and Mulla Sadra, aiming to determine the extent to which their viewpoints on epistemic virtue are similar. Zagzebski, the contemporary philosopher, considers epistemic virtue as the basis on which knowledge is interpreted. She sees epistemic virtue as a requirement for achieving knowledge. Mulla Sadra, the founder of Transcen...