Editing Virtue (section)

===In modern psychology===
[[Christopher Peterson (psychologist)|Christopher Peterson]] and [[Martin Seligman]], two leading researchers in [[positive psychology]], recognizing the deficiency inherent in [[psychology]]'s tendency to focus on dysfunction rather than on what makes a healthy and stable [[personality]], set out to develop a list of "[[Character Strengths and Virtues (book)|Character Strengths and Virtues]]".<ref name=CSV>{{cite book | last1=Peterson | first1=Christopher | last2=Seligman | first2=Martin E.P. | title=Character Strengths and Virtues | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=2004 | isbn=0-19-516701-5|url=https://archive.org/details/characterstrengt0000pete|url-access=registration}}</ref> After three years of study, 24 traits (classified into six broad areas of virtue) were identified, having "a surprising amount of similarity across cultures and strongly indicat[ing] a historical and cross-cultural convergence."{{r|CSV|page=36}} These six categories of virtue are courage, justice, humanity, temperance, transcendence, and wisdom.{{r|CSV|pages=36–39}} Some psychologists suggest that these virtues are adequately grouped into fewer categories; for example, the same 24 traits have been grouped into simply: Cognitive Strengths, Temperance Strengths, and Social Strengths.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Shryack | first1=Jessica | last2=Steger | first2=Michael F. | last3=Krueger | first3=Robert F. | last4=Kallie | first4=Christopher S. | title=The structure of virtue: An empirical investigation of the dimensionality of the virtues in action inventory of strengths | journal=Personality and Individual Differences | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=48 | issue=6 | year=2010 | issn=0191-8869 | doi=10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.007 | pages=714–719| hdl=10818/33195 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>