Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

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here. Katherine Dahlsgaard identifed the six core virtues—wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence—used to organize the spe-cific character strengths in the classification. Nansook Park has been a valued collaborator. We thank Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Ed Diener, Kathleen Hall Jamieson,

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