Research on virtues and character strengths has increased over the last decade. A total of 283 young participants from Portugal completed a measure of character strengths (Furnham and Lester in Eur J Psychol Assess 28:95–101, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2012</CitationRef>) grounded on the values in action inventory of strengths...</citationref>

This study explored a longitudinal data set of 5,090 adults examining the associations between parental social status indicators (measured at birth), childhood intelligence (measured at age 11), personality traits, educational achievement and occupational prestige in relation to mental...

Economic Socialization is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on how children and adolescents come to understand the economic world. Specific issues addressed include the evolution of young people’s ideas about wealth distribution, public ownership and the market, as well as the role of...

To account for male preferences for female body weight following a consistent socio-economic pattern [Nelson, L.D., Morrison, E.L. (2005). The symptoms of resource scarcity: judgements of food and finances influence preferences for potential partners. Psychological Science 16, 167-173] proposed...