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  1. Relativism or tolerance? Defining, assessing, connecting, and distinguishing two moral personality features with prominent roles in modern societies.Lauren Collier-Spruel, Ashley Hawkins, Eranda Jayawickreme, William Fleeson & R. Michael Furr - 2019 - Journal of Personality:1-19.
    Objective This work disentangles moral tolerance from moral relativism and reveals their distinct personological meanings. Both constructs have long been of interest to moral philosophers, moral psychologists, and everyday people, and they may play prominent roles in the feasibility of modern diverse societies. However, they have been criticized as devaluing morality and as producing overly permissive societies. Moreover, although they lack necessary conceptual implications for each other, they are easily (and often) conflated. -/- Method Three studies included nine samples (total (...)
     
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    Positivity and the capabilities approach.Eranda Jayawickreme & James O. Pawelski - 2013 - Philosophical Psychology 26 (3):383-400.
    We evaluate the suitability of Nussbaum's substantive account of capabilities in light of conceptual and empirical work that has shown that positivity is widely valued and pursued as an end by many people, and evidence that positive outcomes, even economic ones, are often caused by well-being rather than the other way around. While Nussbaum sees positive emotions as incidental to the experience of well-being, we argue that the experience of such mental states is partly constitutive of flourishing.
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    Clarifying the Virtue Profile of the Good Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Approach.Juliette L. Ratchford, William Fleeson, Nathan L. King, Laura E. R. Blackie, Qilin Zhang, Tenelle Porter & Eranda Jayawickreme - forthcoming - Topoi:1-10.
    What does it mean to be a good thinker? Which virtues work together in someone who possesses good intellectual character? Although recent research on virtues has highlighted the benefits of individual intellectual virtues, being an excellent thinker is likely a function of possessing multiple intellectual virtues. Specifically, a good thinker would both recognize one’s intellectual shortcomings and possess an eagerness to learn driven by virtues such as love of knowledge, curiosity, and open-mindedness. Good intellectual character may only successfully manifest when (...)
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    Challenging Doris’ Attack on Aggregation: Why We are Not Left “Completely in the Dark” about Global Virtues.Eranda Jayawickreme & William Fleeson - 2017 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20 (3):519-536.
    Aggregation shows that virtue-relevant behavior is indeed highly predictable, and that individual differences in global virtues do indeed exist. Aggregation is a key response to the situationist argument against the existence of broad virtues. However, a concern with aggregation is that, because it is an average, the specifics of what are included in that average matter. In particular, if heinous actions could be included in the average, then aggregates cannot provide enough confidence that the holders of high aggregates have not (...)
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    Measuring Depression in a Non-Western War-Affected Displaced Population: Measurement Equivalence of the Beck Depression Inventory.Nuwan Jayawickreme, Jay Verkuilen, Eranda Jayawickreme, Kaylaliz Acosta & Edna B. Foa - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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    A philosophical approach to improving empirical research on posttraumatic growth.Michael Brady & Eranda Jayawickreme - forthcoming - Philosophical Psychology.
    Post-traumatic growth (PTG) has been a key topic of research by psychologists over the last 25 years. But the idea that a person can benefit from adversity has been around for much longer, and is a stable in many mainstream cultures, and in theological and recent philosophical thinking. However, there has been, to date, little overlap between psychological research into PTG, and philosophical thinking about similar ideas. This is unfortunate, both because philosophers are not taking up potential sources of empirical (...)
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    Does Adversity Make Us Wiser Than Before? Addressing a Foundational Question Through Interdisciplinary Engagement.Eranda Jayawickreme, Stephen R. Grimm & Laura E. R. Blackie - 2019 - Journal of Value Inquiry 53 (3):343-348.
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    Conceptual and Methodological Considerations for the Study of Wisdom Arising from Adversity.William J. Chopik, Eranda Jayawickreme, Ursula Renz & Eric Yang - 2019 - Journal of Value Inquiry 53 (3):393-396.
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    Network models can help focus research on the role of culture and context in psychopathology, but don't discount latent variable models.Nuwan Jayawickreme, Andrew Rasmussen, Alison Karasz, Jay Verkuilen & Eranda Jayawickreme - 2019 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42.
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    Personality science, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.Eranda Jayawickreme, Marie J. C. Forgeard & Laura E. R. Blackie - 2015 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38.
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