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Upton, Candace. "Virtue Ethics, Character, and Normative Receptivity." Journal of Moral Philosophy 5, no. 1 (2008): 77–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/174552408x306735.

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AbstractClassically-conceived accounts of character posit traits that are both dynamic and global. Dynamic traits produce behavior, and global traits produce behavior across the full range of situation kinds relevant to a particular trait. If you are classically just, for example, you would behave justly across the full range of situation kinds relevant to justice. But classical traits are too crude to fulfill trait attributions' intrinsically normative purpose, which is to reflect the moral merit agents deserve. I defend an extra-classical account of character traits that endorses flexible traits that might issue in behavior across any narrow or broad range of situation kinds, and static traits that might issue in no behavior at all. Extra-classical traits are more subtle and sensitive, and so are normatively receptive to the credit that psychologically-complicated agents merit. Further, extra-classical traits can fulfill all the unproblematic roles of classical traits. Extra-classicism is, hence, a significant and substantial improvement upon classically conceived character traits and traditional virtue ethics.

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Sharp, Kristen. "Building Character: Discovering and Developing Character Traits." Journal of School Health 72, no. 7 (September 2002): 303–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1561.2002.tb01338.x.

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Butler, Douglas. "Character Traits in Explanation." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49, no. 2 (December 1988): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2107974.

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Alvarez, Maria. "Are Character Traits Dispositions?" Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 80 (May 16, 2017): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246117000029.

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AbstractThe last three decades have seen much important work on powers and dispositions: what they are and how they are related to the phenomena that constitute their manifestation. These debates have tended to focus on ‘paradigmatic’ dispositions, i.e. physical dispositions such as conductivity, elasticity, radioactivity, etc. It is often assumed, implicitly or explicitly, that the conclusions of these debates concerning physical dispositions can be extended to psychological dispositions, such as beliefs, desires or character traits. In this paper I identify some central features of paradigmatic dispositions that concern their manifestation, stimulus conditions, and causal bases. I then focus on a specific kind of psychological disposition, namely character traits, and argue that they are importantly different from paradigmatic dispositions in relation to these features. I conclude that this difference should lead us to re-examine our assumption that character traits are dispositions and, by implication, whether we can generalize conclusions about physical dispositions to psychological dispositions, such as character traits and their manifestations.

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Harman, Gilbert. "Skepticism about Character Traits." Journal of Ethics 13, no. 2-3 (May 27, 2009): 235–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10892-009-9050-6.

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Sugiyama, Toshiko, Atsushi Kameyama, Daiki Yamakura, Kazuki Morinaga, and Masatake Tsunoda. "Character Traits of Malodor Patients." Bulletin of Tokyo Dental College 52, no. 3 (2011): 123–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2209/tdcpublication.52.123.

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Harman, Gilbert. "The Nonexistence of Character Traits." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100, no. 2 (April 2000): 223–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9264.00077.

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Harman, Gilbert. "The Nonexistence of Character Traits." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback) 100, no. 1 (June 2000): 223–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0066-7372.2003.00013.x.

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Biddle, Tami Davis. "Character Traits Strategic Leaders Need." US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters 52, no. 2 (May 18, 2022): 103–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.55540/0031-1723.3155.

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Dennis, Matthew J. "Virtue as Empowerment." Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24, no. 2 (2020): 411–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/epoche202034162.

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Virtue ethical interpretations of Nietzsche are increasingly viewed as a promising way to explain his moral philosophy, although current interpretations disagree on which character traits he regards as virtues. Of the first-, second-, and third-wave attempts addressing this question, only the latter can explain why Nietzsche denies that the same character traits are virtues for all individuals. Instead of positing the same set of character traits as Nietzschean virtues, third-wave theorists propose that Nietzsche only endorses criteria determining whether a specific character trait is a virtue or vice for a specific individual. The article examines the criteria-based approaches of third-wave theorists Lester Hunt and Christine Swanton, showing how they urgently need revising to explain Nietzsche’s endorsement of non-acquisitive character traits (such as those involving sensitivity and receptivity). To do this I explore Nietzsche’s unpublished remarks on Spinoza, which I contend better explains why he understands non-acquisitive character traits as virtues.

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Tarasov, Sergei. "Integration of Anatomy Ontologies and Evo-Devo Using Structured Markov Models Suggests a New Framework for Modeling Discrete Phenotypic Traits." Systematic Biology 68, no. 5 (January 22, 2019): 698–716. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz005.

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Abstract Modeling discrete phenotypic traits for either ancestral character state reconstruction or morphology-based phylogenetic inference suffers from ambiguities of character coding, homology assessment, dependencies, and selection of adequate models. These drawbacks occur because trait evolution is driven by two key processes—hierarchical and hidden—which are not accommodated simultaneously by the available phylogenetic methods. The hierarchical process refers to the dependencies between anatomical body parts, while the hidden process refers to the evolution of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) underlying trait development. Herein, I demonstrate that these processes can be efficiently modeled using structured Markov models (SMM) equipped with hidden states, which resolves the majority of the problems associated with discrete traits. Integration of SMM with anatomy ontologies can adequately incorporate the hierarchical dependencies, while the use of the hidden states accommodates hidden evolution of GRNs and substitution rate heterogeneity. I assess the new models using simulations and theoretical synthesis. The new approach solves the long-standing “tail color problem,” in which the trait is scored for species with tails of different colors or no tails. It also presents a previously unknown issue called the “two-scientist paradox,” in which the nature of coding the trait and the hidden processes driving the trait’s evolution are confounded; failing to account for the hidden process may result in a bias, which can be avoided by using hidden state models. All this provides a clear guideline for coding traits into characters. This article gives practical examples of using the new framework for phylogenetic inference and comparative analysis.

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Valiantien, Nita Maya, and Setya Ariani. "Sifat Kepahlawanan Tokoh Bujang dalam Novel "Pulang" Karya Tere Liye." Diglosia: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajarannya 4, no. 4 (November 7, 2021): 499–514. http://dx.doi.org/10.30872/diglosia.v4i4.242.

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This study aims to provide an overview of heroic traits shown by the character Bujang in Tere Liye's novel Pulang. The method used in analyzing the data is qualitative method because the data collected and analyzed are in the form of narratives and dialogues in the text related to the heroic traits possessed by Bujang as the main character in the novel. Furthermore, this study uses descriptive techniques to define the heroic traits found in Bujang character. From the results of the analysis, it was found that eight heroic traits possessed by Bujang in the novel Pulang. The traits include caring, charismatic, inspiring, reliable, resilient, selfless, smart, and strong. This finding shows that heroic traits can be found in characters who are involved in the world of crime and also in literary works that use the setting and themes of the criminal world. By having these eight heroic traits, Bujang is a representation of a hero even though he is a character who has a role in the criminal world he lives in the novel.

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Yoleri, Sibel. "Examining the association between burnout and temperament and character traits of preschool teachers." Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences 13, no. 2 (June 26, 2018): 192–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/cjes.v13i2.3126.

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The aim is to investigate the relationships between the temperament and character traits and burnout dimensions among preschool teachers. In total, 130 preschool teachers participated in this study. All participants were asked to complete the Temperament and Character Inventory, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Findings indicate a positive association between emotional exhaustion and persistence. On the other hand, there is a negative significant correlation between emotional exhaustion and self-directedness (SD). Results conclude that there is a positive significant relationship between depersonalisation and SD, and a positive association between personal accomplishment and harm avoidance (HA). Multiple regression analysis was employed to examine the predictive effect temperament and character traits displayed on the burnout dimensions. Novelty seeking and reward dependence were significant predictors of the emotional exhaustion burnout dimension. Temperament and character traits are not significantly correlated with depersonalisation. HA temperament and character trait are the predictor factors that have specific effects on personal accomplishment. Keywords: Burnout, preschool education teachers, temperament and character traits.

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Palestrini, Claudia, Antonio Rolando, and Paola Laiolo. "Allometric relationships and character evolution in Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 78, no. 7 (July 1, 2000): 1199–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z00-056.

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Allometric relationships in primary sexual traits (male and female genitalia), secondary sexual traits (male horns and female carinae), and non-sex-related traits (external body traits, epipharynx traits) were studied in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus. Model II regressions of log-transformed data were used to quantify relationships, with pronotum width as regressor and indicator of overall body size. Slopes (allometric values) for the different trait categories were significantly different, with secondary sexual traits showing the highest values (higher than 1.0), followed by external body traits (slightly lower than 1.00) and epipharynx traits (around 0.2). Primary sexual traits and body size were mostly uncorrelated and genital sizes were virtually constant. Allometries of secondary sexual traits were quite different in the two sexes: the relationship between male horn length and pronotum width was approximately sigmoidal, while that between female carina length and pronotum width was linear. External body traits had significantly higher allometric values in females than in males. Our results suggest that traits in the different categories are under different kinds of selection. Genital allometries can be explained on the basis of sexual selection by cryptic female choice or by the lock-and-key hypothesis. Among secondary sexual characters, male horn morphology seems to be mostly "environmentally" determined and sexual selection would affect only a component of the developmental mechanism of horn expression. External body characters are likely under natural selection, even though a few traits could be sex-related. Finally, in both sexes, internal epipharynx traits seem to be subject to the same selective pressure, probably because males and females use the same feeding niche. The constancy of genital sizes in O. taurus suggests that in developmental processes, more is invested in primary sexual traits (to produce genitalia of the proper size) than in secondary sexual or body traits. Males receiving low quantities of food may incur costs associated with a small horn or small body size, but do not incur costs associated with small genitalia. Females probably share the same developmental pattern.

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Frykholm, Erin. "The ontology of character traits in Hume." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42, S1 (February 2012): 82–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2012.981013.

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This paper argues that Hume can account for character traits as lasting mental qualities without violating his reductionist account of the mind as a changing bundle of ideas and impressions. It argues that a trait is a disposition to act according to certain passions or motivations, explained entirely with reference to the ideas and impressions constituting one's current self. This account is consistent with Hume's view of the mind, and relies solely on his accounts of the association of impressions and ideas, and of the relationship between belief and passion, to establish relations that can properly be called lasting mental qualities.

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Puttick, Mark N. "Partially incorrect fossil data augment analyses of discrete trait evolution in living species." Biology Letters 12, no. 8 (August 2016): 20160392. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0392.

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Ancestral state reconstruction of discrete character traits is often vital when attempting to understand the origins and homology of traits in living species. The addition of fossils has been shown to alter our understanding of trait evolution in extant taxa, but researchers may avoid using fossils alongside extant species if only few are known, or if the designation of the trait of interest is uncertain. Here, I investigate the impacts of fossils and incorrectly coded fossils in the ancestral state reconstruction of discrete morphological characters under a likelihood model. Under simulated phylogenies and data, likelihood-based models are generally accurate when estimating ancestral node values. Analyses with combined fossil and extant data always outperform analyses with extant species alone, even when around one quarter of the fossil information is incorrect. These results are especially pronounced when model assumptions are violated, such as when there is a trend away from the root value. Fossil data are of particular importance when attempting to estimate the root node character state. Attempts should be made to include fossils in analysis of discrete traits under likelihood, even if there is uncertainty in the fossil trait data.

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Garcia, Danilo, and Patricia Rosenberg. "The dark cube: dark and light character profiles." PeerJ 4 (February 8, 2016): e1675. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1675.

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Background.Research addressing distinctions and similarities between people’s malevolent character traits (i.e., the Dark Triad: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) has detected inconsistent linear associations to temperament traits. Additionally, these dark traits seem to have a common core expressed as uncooperativeness. Hence, some researchers suggest that the dark traits are best represented as one global construct (i.e., the unification argument) rather than as ternary construct (i.e., the uniqueness argument). We put forward the dark cube (cf. Cloninger’s character cube) comprising eight dark profiles that can be used to compare individuals who differ in one dark character trait while holding the other two constant. Our aim was to investigate in which circumstances individuals who are high in each one of the dark character traits differ in Cloninger’s “light” character traits: self-directedness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence. We also investigated if people’s dark character profiles were associated to their light character profiles.Method.A total of 997 participants recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) responded to the Short Dark Triad and the Short Character Inventory. Participants were allocated to eight different dark profiles and eight light profiles based on their scores in each of the traits and any possible combination of high and low scores. We used three-way interaction regression analyses andt-tests to investigate differences in light character traits between individuals with different dark profiles. As a second step, we compared the individuals’ dark profile with her/his character profile using an exact cell-wise analysis conducted in the ROPstat software (http://www.ropstat.com).Results.Individuals who expressed high levels of Machiavellianism and those who expressed high levels of psychopathy also expressed low self-directedness and low cooperativeness. Individuals with high levels of narcissism, in contrast, scored high in self-directedness. Moreover, individuals with a profile low in the dark traits were more likely to end up with a profile high in cooperativeness. The opposite was true for those individuals with a profile high in the dark traits. The rest of the cross-comparisons revealed some of the characteristics of human personality as a non-linear complex dynamic system.Conclusions.Our study suggests that individuals who are high in Machiavellianism and psychopathy share a unified non-agentic and uncooperative character (i.e., irresponsible, low in self-control, unempathetic, unhelpful, untolerant), while individuals high in narcissism have a more unique character configuration expressed as high agency and, when the other dark traits are high, highly spiritual but uncooperative. In other words, based on differences in their associations to the light side of character, the Dark Triad seems to be a dyad rather than a triad.

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Comer, Debra R., and Michael Schwartz. "Adapting Mussar to Develop Management Students’ Character." Journal of Management Education 44, no. 2 (September 15, 2019): 196–246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1052562919871083.

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Management educators have been advised to cultivate their students’ character. Yet they lack the instructional resources they need to do so. We were inspired by the principles and techniques of the Jewish spiritual practice of Mussar to put students on a personalized path of continuous character improvement. According to Mussar, everyone has some measure of a given character trait and needs to calibrate it to fill in a deficiency or tone down an excess. Although correcting character deficiencies and excesses requires a commitment of effort, we can, and should, become better versions of ourselves by applying that effort—that is, engaging in reflection, setting goals, monitoring our progress, and making adjustments—to move each of our character traits ever closer to its respective virtuous mean. We have designed materials to increase students’ awareness of character and its importance in organizations, give them a vocabulary of character traits, help them identify the character traits they would like to address, and provide them with a sustainable process for self-enhancement. In this article, we introduce these materials and provide evidence of their effectiveness.

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Lee, Guang-Lea, and M. Lee Manning. "Introduction: Character Education Around the World: Encouraging Positive Character Traits." Childhood Education 89, no. 5 (September 2013): 283–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00094056.2013.830879.

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Robinson, M., P. Callaway, E. Palmer, S. Kozakowski, S. Jones, S. Carr, P. Carek, S. Cobb, J. Gravel, and S. Balachandra. "CORE CHARACTER TRAITS FOR FAMILY MEDICINE." Annals of Family Medicine 6, no. 3 (May 1, 2008): 278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1370/afm.852.

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Johnson, Conrad. "Character Traits and Objectively Right Action." Social Theory and Practice 15, no. 1 (1989): 67–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract19891513.

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Upton, Candace L. "A Contextual Account of Character Traits." Philosophical Studies 122, no. 2 (January 2005): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-004-6218-6.

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Kupperman, Joel J. "The Indispensability of Character." Philosophy 76, no. 2 (April 2001): 239–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819101000250.

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Gilbert Harman has argued that it does not make sense to ascribe character traits to people. The notion of morally virtuous character becomes particularly suspect.How plausible this is depends on how broad character traits would have to be. Views of character as entirely invariant behavioural tendencies offer a soft target. This paper explores a view that is a less easy target: character traits as specific to kinds of situation, and as involving probabilities or real possibilities. Such ascriptions are not undermined by Harman's arguments, and it remains plausible that the agent's character often is indispensable in explanation of behaviour. Character is indispensable also as processes of control that impose reliability where it really matters.

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WEBBER, JONATHAN. "Character, Global and Local." Utilitas 19, no. 4 (November 12, 2007): 430–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0953820807002725.

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Philosophers have recently argued that we should revise our understanding of character. An individual's behaviour is governed not by a set of ‘global’ traits, each elicited by a certain kind of situational feature, they argue, but by a much larger array of ‘local’ traits, each elicited by a certain combination of situational features. But the data cited by these philosophers support their theory only if we conceive of traits purely in terms of stimulus and response, rather than in the more traditional terms of inner mental items such as inclinations. We should not adopt the former conception, moreover, since doing so would impede pursuit of the ethical aims for which we need a theory of character, whereas retaining the latter conception will facilitate this pursuit. So we should not revise our understanding of character in the way proposed.

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Dwidjowinoto, Wahjudhi. "KATURANGGAN WANITA MERUPAKAN SALAH SATU MEDIA TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DAN KOMUNIKASI MASA LAMPAU." Jurnal Budaya Nusantara 2, no. 1 (September 1, 2018): 229–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.36456/b.nusantara.vol2.no1.a1716.

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In looking at the character and characteristics of a woman who is good and not good or who is called Katuranggan as a marker of the basic character. Katuranggan comes from the word turangga which means horse. The science of katurangan is actually a science of the traits and traits of horses as the mounts as well as the train pullers. Furthermore, this term katuranggan borrowed/used also to understand the characteristics of women based on their physical characteristics. This paper discusses female customers based on those of Serat Centhini, the character of Arjuna's wives, female characters from the face, the female character based on the impression of their body, the female character based on the expression of the expression, the female character according to the characteristics of their body.

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Webber, Jonathan. "Virtue, Character and Situation." Journal of Moral Philosophy 3, no. 2 (2006): 193–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1740468106065492.

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AbstractPhilosophers have recently argued that traditional discussions of virtue and character presuppose an account of behaviour that experimental psychology has shown to be false. Behaviour does not issue from global traits such as prudence, temperance, courage or fairness, they claim, but from local traits such as sailing-in-rough-weather-with-friends-courage and office-party-temperance. The data employed provides evidence for this view only if we understand it in the light of a behaviourist construal of traits in terms of stimulus and response, rather than in the light of the more traditional construal in terms of inner events such as inclinations. More recent experiments have shown this traditional conception to have greater explanatory and predictive power than its behaviourist rival. So we should retain the traditional conception, and hence reject the proposed alteration to our understanding of behaviour. This discussion has further implications for future philosophical investigations of character and virtue.

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UPTON, CANDACE L. "Context, Character and Consequentialist Friendships." Utilitas 20, no. 3 (September 2008): 334–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095382080800318x.

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One prevailing objection to consequentialism holds that the consequentialist cannot promote both agent-neutral value and her own personal friendships: the consequentialist cannot be a genuine friend. Several versions of this objection have been advanced, but an even more sophisticated version of the charge is available. However, even this more sophisticated version fails, as it assumes a traditional, context-insensitive, account of character traits. In this article, I develop and defend a novel account of character traits that is context-sensitive and also supports a novel account of what friendship consists in. Application of the more plausible, contextual, account of character traits resolves the debate in favor of the friendly consequentialist.

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Lu, Xi, Zi Chen, Xiaoyi Cui, Masayo Uji, Wataru Miyazaki, Masako Oda, Toshiaki Nagata, Toshinori Kitamura, and Takahiko Katoh. "Effects of Temperament and Character Profiles on State and Trait Depression and Anxiety: A Prospective Study of a Japanese Youth Population." Depression Research and Treatment 2012 (2012): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/604684.

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Objective. To examine the effects of temperament and character profiles on state and trait depression and anxiety in a Japanese youth population.Method. Japanese university students were solicited for participation in a two-wave study, with assessments performed at Time 1 (T1) and Time 2 (T2), separated by a five-month interval. A total of 184 students completed the Japanese version of the temperament and character inventory (TCI) at T1 and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) at T1 and T2. We posited two latent variables, trait depression and anxiety, composed of the T1 and T2 HADS depression and anxiety scores, respectively. We also posited that temperament domain traits would predict character domain traits, and that all the personality traits would be linked to trait depression and anxiety and also predict T2 depression and anxiety.Results. Structural regression modeling showed that (1) only high Novelty Seeking predicted T2 Anxiety score, (2) trait depression and anxiety were linked to high harm avoidance and low self-directedness, and (3) trait depression was linked to high self-transcendence whereas trait anxiety was linked to low reward dependence, persistence, and cooperativeness.Conclusion. The characteristic associations between TCI subscales and depression and anxiety were limited to the trait rather than state aspects of depression and anxiety.

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NORONHA, Ana Paula Porto, and Roberta Ramazotti Ferraz de CAMPOS. "Relationship between character strengths and personality traits." Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) 35, no. 1 (March 2018): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-02752018000100004.

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Abstract The objective of this study was to determine which Character Strengths can be predicted by Personality traits using the instruments Forças de Caráter (Character Strengths Scale) and Bateria Fatorial de Personalidade (Factor Personality Questionnaire). A total of 217 university students, with an average age of 22 years participated in this study; 53% were female. The results indicated that the strengths Vitality, Gratitude, Persistence, Spirituality, Kindness, Humor, Social Intelligence, Citizenship, Fairness, and Creativity were best explained by the traits Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Moreover, Extraversion and Agreeableness were the traits that were most often associated with the Character Strengths. The findings were discussed in the light of relevant literature, and further studies were recommended.

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Speranskaya, O. I., V. Smirnov, K. Bogdanov, I. Larina, and I. Tretiokova. "2913 – Character traits of heavy smoking adolescents." European Psychiatry 28 (January 2013): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(13)77468-6.

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Suzuki, Eiji, Yoshie Kitao, Yutaka Ono, Yoshimi Iijima, and Toshiya Inada. "Cytochrome P450 2D6 polymorphism and character traits." Psychiatric Genetics 13, no. 2 (June 2003): 111–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.ypg.0000056175.32550.37.

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Grover, Lisa. "The Evaluative Integration of Local Character Traits." Journal of Value Inquiry 46, no. 1 (March 2012): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10790-012-9316-2.

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Brand, Jeffrey. "Character and Repeat-Offender Sentencing." Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 35, no. 1 (February 2022): 59–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cjlj.2021.24.

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AbstractRepeat offenders receive longer sentences than first offenders in virtually every modern jurisdiction. Such prior-record enhancements are politically popular. Scholars are more divided, especially regarding severe enhancements. Retributivists have long disagreed about which enhancements, if any, are morally justifiable and on what basis. This article advances the debate, offering lessons for retributivists on all sides. I address an intuitive argument that justifies enhancements in terms of character. This argument has been caricatured and dismissed, with defenders of enhancements preferring character-independent arguments. I reconstruct an argument for enhancements that assumes recidivism constitutes evidence of culpability-aggravating character traits. The argument seems at least coherent, inferentially valid, and intuitively plausible. I then raise what I see as the real threats to the argument, which are neither conceptual nor normative, but empirical. I identify some formal features that the character argument requires of culpability-aggravating traits. To support enhancements, such traits must also correlate properly with criminal records. One place to look for characterizations of such traits, and evidence of correlation, is criminology, in theories of criminogenesis and criminality. I conclude that character arguments for prior-record enhancements cannot be dismissed, although their thorough evaluation awaits answers to complex empirical questions.

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Yang, Wenhui. "Russian Fixed Comparisons with Zoonym Component Describing Human Character Traits in Russian and Chinese Languages." Prepodavatel XXI vek, no. 3, 2020 (2020): 436–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/2073-9613-2020-3-436-451.

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The aim of the article is to compare and clarify the differences in the perception of the image of a zoonym by the speakers of the analyzed languages on the basis of the collected units of fixed comparisons with zoonym component describing human character traits in Russian and Chinese. All the collected fixed comparisons are divided into positive, neutral and negative character traits and similarities and differences are shown when describing the same character trait with the help of fixed comparisons with zoonim component. The result of the study will help avoid the mistakes of using fixed comparisons with zoonym component for Chinese students learning Russian. The scientific novelty lies in the complex analysis of fixed comparisons with the Russian and Chinese zoonyms. As a result, it has been proven that the descriptions of human character traits using fixed comparisons formed by the zoonyms in the Chinese and Russian languages are very different.

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Garcia, Danilo, and Fernando R. González Moraga. "The Dark Cube: dark character profiles and OCEAN." PeerJ 5 (September 22, 2017): e3845. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3845.

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BackgroundThe Big Five traits (i.e., openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism: OCEAN) have been suggested to provide a meaningful taxonomy for studying the Dark Triad: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. Nevertheless, current research consists of mixed and inconsistent associations between the Dark Triad and OCEAN. Here we used the Dark Cube (Garcia & Rosenberg, 2016), a model of malevolent character theoretically based on Cloninger’s biopsychosocial model of personality and in the assumption of a ternary structure of malevolent character. We use the dark cube profiles to investigate differences in OCEAN between individuals who differ in one dark character trait while holding the other two constant (i.e., conditional relationships).MethodParticipants (N = 330) responded to the Short Dark Triad Inventory and the Big Five Inventory and were grouped according to the eight possible combinations using their dark trait scores (M, high Machiavellianism; m, low Machiavellianism; N, high narcissism; n, low narcissism; P, high psychopathy; p, low psychopathy): MNP “maleficent”, MNp “manipulative narcissistic”, MnP “anti-social”, Mnp “Machiavellian”, mNP “psychopathic narcissistic”, mNp “narcissistic”, mnP “psychopathic”, and mnp “benevolent”.ResultsHigh narcissism-high extraversion and high psychopathy-low agreeableness were consistently associated across comparisons. The rest of the comparisons showed a complex interaction. For example, high Machiavellianism-high neuroticism only when both narcissism and psychopathy were low (Mnp vs. mnp), high narcissism-high conscientiousness only when both Machiavellianism and psychopathy were also high (MNP vs. MnP), and high psychopathy-high neuroticism only when Machiavellianism was low and narcissism was high (mNP vs. mNp).ConclusionsWe suggest that the Dark Cube is a useful tool in the investigation of a consistent Dark Triad Theory. This approach suggests that the only clear relationships were narcissism-extraversion and psychopathy-agreeableness and that the malevolent character traits were associated to specific OCEAN traits only under certain conditions. Hence, explaining the mixed and inconsistent linear associations in the Dark Triad literature.

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de Saint Hilaire, Zara, Judith Straub, and Antoine Pelissolo. "Temperament and character in primary insomnia." European Psychiatry 20, no. 2 (March 2005): 188–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2004.04.009.

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AbstractRecent studies by Cloninger suggest that the temperament dimension of harm avoidance might be related to serotonergic activity. Since serotonergic mechanisms equally play a major role in sleep regulation, we decided to use Cloninger’s psychobiological model of temperament and character to assess whether there is a link between psychophysiologic insomnia and specific personality traits. Chronic insomnia is a common complaint in modern society, and it is still controversial whether insomniacs share specific personality traits. Thirty-two chronic insomniacs (<50 years) were studied. They underwent polysomnography for two consecutive nights and filled out the 226-item self-questionnaire of Temperament and Character Inventory as well as the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale. (1) Harm avoidance for all subscores was significantly higher in insomniac patients when compared with controls; (2) self-directedness scores were lower in insomniacs; (3) sleep latency was positively correlated to harm avoidance; (4) HA1 (anticipatory worry) was negatively correlated to REM latency. Temperament and Character Inventory is a useful tool in the investigation of chronic insomnia. Serotonergic mechanisms might explain the high incidence of harm avoidance as personality trait in psychophysiologic insomniac patients. Further studies are needed to see whether harm avoidance could be a psychological vulnerability marker for primary insomnia and be used as predictor of SSRI treatment responders.

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O’Brien, Haley D. "Augmenting Trait-Dependent Diversification Estimations with Fossil Evidence: A Case Study Using Osmoregulatory Neurovasculature." Brain, Behavior and Evolution 91, no. 3 (2018): 148–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000488887.

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When comparative neuromorphological studies are extended into evolutionary contexts, traits of interest are often linked to diversification patterns. Features demonstrably associated with increases in diversification rates and the infiltration or occupation of novel niche spaces are often termed “key innovations.” Within the past decade, phylogenetically informed methods have been developed to test key innovation hypotheses and evaluate the influence these traits have had in shaping modern faunas. This is primarily accomplished by estimating state-dependent speciation and extinction rates. These methods have important caveats and guidelines related to both calculation and interpretation, which are necessary to understand in cases of discrete (qualitative) character analysis, as can be common when studying the evolution of neuromorphology. In such studies, inclusion of additional characters, acknowledgement of character codistribution, and addition of sister clade comparison should be explored to ensure model accuracy. Even so, phylogenies provide a survivor-only examination of character evolution, and paleontological contexts may be necessary to replicate and confirm results. Here, I review these issues in the context of selective brain cooling – a neurovascular-mediated osmoregulatory physiology that dampens hypothalamic responses to heat stress and reduces evaporative water loss in large-bodied mammals. This binary character provides an example of the interplay between sample size, evenness, and character codistribution. Moreover, it allows for an opportunity to compare phylogenetically constrained results with paleontological data, augmenting survivor-only analyses with observable extinction patterns. This trait- dependent diversification example indicates that selective brain cooling is significantly associated with the generation of modern large-mammal faunas. Importantly, paleontological data validate phylogenetic patterns and demonstrate how suites of characters worked in concert to establish the large-mammal communities of today.

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Smith, Michael. "Immodest Consequentialism and Character." Utilitas 13, no. 2 (July 2001): 173–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0953820800003125.

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The fact that we place the value that we do on the traits of character constitutive of being a good friend, and the acts that good friends are disposed to perform, creates a considerable problem for what I call ‘immodest global consequentialism’. The problem is, in essence, that the very best that the immodest global consequentialists can do by way of vindicating our most deeply held convictions about the value of these traits of character and actions isn't good enough, because, while vindicating our possession of those convictions, the attempted vindication undermines the truth of the convictions thus possessed. This is especially bad news because, as I argue, immodest global consequentialism is the only version of consequentialism that can be distinguished in any principled way from a form of non-consequentialism.

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Alzola, Miguel. "The Possibility of Virtue." Business Ethics Quarterly 22, no. 2 (April 2012): 377–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/beq201222224.

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ABSTRACT:To have a virtue is to possess a certain kind of trait of character that is appropriate in pursuing the moral good at which the virtue aims. Human beings are assumed to be capable of attaining those traits. Yet, a number of scholars are skeptical about the very existence of such character traits. They claim a sizable amount of empirical evidence in their support. This article is concerned with the existence and explanatory power of character as a way to assess the possibility of achieving moral virtue, with particular attention paid to business context. I aim to unsettle the so-called situationist challenge to virtue ethics. In the course of this article, I shall defend four claims, namely, that virtues are more than just behavioral dispositions, that at least some virtues may not be unitary traits, that psychologists cannot infer virtues from overt behavior, and that the situationist data do not account for the observational equivalence of traits. Since it rests on a misconception of what virtue is, the situationist objection remains unconvincing.

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Parker, V. Thomas, and Morgan A. Stickrod. "Reproductive phenological shifts and other phylogenetic trait changes in the Arbutoideae (Ericaceae) in the context of drought, seed predation, and fire." Botany 100, no. 4 (April 2022): 387–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2021-0163.

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Phenology is an ecologically critical attribute that is commonly coordinated with other plant traits. Phenological shifts may be the result of evolutionary adjustments to persistently new conditions, or they may be transitory, varying with annual fluxes in abiotic conditions. In summer-dry, fire-prone Mediterranean-type climates, for example, many plant lineages have historically migrated from forests to more arid shrublands resulting in adaptive trait changes. These shifts in habitat abiotic conditions and biotic interactions influence morphology of flowers and fruits and interact with phenological timing. The Arbutoideae (Ericaceae) is one lineage that illustrates such modifications, with fruit characters evolving among genera from fleshy to dry fruit, thin to stony endocarps, and bird to rodent dispersal, among other changes. We scored herbarium collections and used ancestral trait analyses to determine phenological shifts among the five Arbutoid genera found in semi-arid climates. Our objective was to determine if phenology shifts with the phylogenetic transition to different reproductive characters. Our results indicate that phenological shifts began with some traits, like the development of a stony endocarp or dry fruits, but not with all significant trait changes. We conclude that early phenological shifts correlating with some reproductive traits were permissive for the transition to other later character changes.

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Muñoz Martínez, V., T. Rodriguez Cano, L. Beato Fernández, G. A. Jimenez Londoño, B. Mata Saenz, L. Asensio, L. Nuevo Fernandez, and L. Mella. "How Dissociation, Temperament and Character Influence at the Eating Disorders." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.02.144.

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ObjectivesDissociation has been related to emotional dysregulation and eating psychopathology. Dissociation may interfere with the learning process, affecting at the therapy negatively. The aim of the study is to analyse if at the eating disorders (ED), dissociation is linked to temperamental traits or also to character traits, which are susceptible to be modulated during the therapeutic process.MethodsWe studied 119 females that started an outpatient program for their ED. We used the Dissociative Experience Scale (DES), Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40), and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). We used multiple regression analysis.ResultsDissociation was associated with high scores on the EAT-40, even controlling the effect of anxiety traits, which also was related to dissociation. The temperament dimension “searching for novelty”, has been related in an opposite way to the DES. Also, the “dimension of transcendence “character and “self determination” influenced on the DES.ConclusionsThis study confirms the importance of improving Self Determination levels at ED therapy, which influence on a lot of prognostic aspects, such as protecting from dissociation, which is related to anxiety and alimentary psychopathology and can interfere with the therapeutic progress.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Pletcher, Scott D., and Charles J. Geyer. "The Genetic Analysis of Age-Dependent Traits: Modeling the Character Process." Genetics 153, no. 2 (October 1, 1999): 825–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/153.2.825.

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Abstract The extension of classical quantitative genetics to deal with function-valued characters (also called infinite-dimensional characters) such as growth curves, mortality curves, and reaction norms, was begun by Kirkpatrick and co-workers. In this theory, the analogs of variance components for single traits are covariance functions for function-valued traits. In the approach presented here, we employ a variety of parametric models for covariance functions that have a number of desirable properties: the functions (1) are positive definite, (2) can be estimated using procedures like those currently used for single traits, (3) have a small number of parameters, and (4) allow simple hypotheses to be easily tested. The methods are illustrated using data from a large experiment that examined the effects of spontaneous mutations on age-specific mortality rates in Drosophila melanogaster. Our methods are shown to work better than a standard multivariate analysis, which assumes the character value at each age is a distinct character. Advantages over existing methods that model covariance functions as a series of orthogonal polynomials are discussed.

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Seiffert-Brockmann, Jens, Sabine Einwiller, and Julia Stranzl. "Character assassination of CEOs in crises – Questioning CEOs’ character and values in corporate crises." European Journal of Communication 33, no. 4 (March 18, 2018): 413–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323118763860.

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This study explores the concept of character assassination in the field of corporate communication. We examine the perception of character traits and personal values of chief executive officers in Austria and Germany during corporate crises. Results suggest that character attacks mostly focus on a chief executive officer’s integrity, while a positive public perception of charisma seems to be related to a chief executive officer’s remaining in office. Furthermore, personal values were under more intense public scrutiny when the chief executive officer in question had to leave their office. Thus, the study suggests that character traits and values are antecedents which influence the outcomes of the process of character assassination.

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Smith, Kristopher M., and Coren L. Apicella. "Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Disagree on Perceptions of Moral Character." Social Psychological and Personality Science 11, no. 5 (September 5, 2019): 616–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550619865051.

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To the extent that moral character is grounded in stable and observable truths, there should exist agreement between people in their judgments of others’ character. In Western populations, this agreement is found. We examine whether this is universal in Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. Ninety-four judges ranked their campmates on global character and relevant character traits for a total of 802 observations. Judges disagreed on rankings of global character, generosity, and honesty but agreed more on hard work and hunting ability. Individual rankings on specific traits predicted character evaluations. There was agreement between judges on the extent to which generosity and hard work related to character. These findings suggest that Hadza have shared beliefs about what traits constitute character but disagree on which of their campmates exhibit these traits. We discuss these findings in light of other research suggesting that stable moral dispositions may not be universal.

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Ruch, Willibald, Richard Bruntsch, and Lisa Wagner. "The role of character traits in economic games." Personality and Individual Differences 108 (April 2017): 186–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.12.007.

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Speranskaya, O. I., V. Smirnov, K. Bogdanov, and I. Larina. "P-90 - Character traits of heavy smoking adolescents." European Psychiatry 27 (January 2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(12)74257-8.

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Holian, David B., and Charles Prysby. "Candidate Character Traits in the 2012 Presidential Election." Presidential Studies Quarterly 44, no. 3 (July 18, 2014): 484–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psq.12134.

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TAKATA, FUJIO. "ENDOGENOUS BUSINESS CYCLES: THE INFLUENCE OF CHARACTER TRAITS." Australian Economic Papers 48, no. 1 (March 2009): 80–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8454.2008.00350.x.

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Yazici, Esra, Ahmet Bulent Yazici, Nazan Aydin, Asuman Orhan, Ismet Kirpinar, and Hamit Acemoglu. "Temperament and Character Traits in Patients With Epilepsy." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 201, no. 5 (May 2013): 365–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0b013e31828e0e3d.

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Badhwar, Neera K. "The Milgram Experiments, Learned Helplessness, and Character Traits." Journal of Ethics 13, no. 2-3 (June 3, 2009): 257–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10892-009-9052-4.

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