Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences
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Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences
Results from a randomized trial suggest that the implementation of an intervention designed to promote the use of one’s central character strengths in new ways improves well-being (Seligman et al., 2005). The intervention consists of taking a survey to identify one’s five central character strengths and then using one of these top five strengths in... See more
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