Character:
VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). The importance, opportunities, and challenges of empirically assessing character for the promotion of flourishing. Journal of Education, 202:170–180.
VanderWeele, T.J. (2022). Virtues, mental health, and human flourishing. In: J.R. Peteet (ed.). Virtues in Psychiatric Practice. Oxford University Press.
Kaftanski, W.T. (2022). Admiration, affectivity, and value: critical remarks on exemplarity. Journal of Value Inquiry, in press.
Wilson, M.F. (2022). High-fidelity experiments, situationism, and the measurement of virtue. Journal of Value Inquiry, in press.
Węziak-Białowolska, D., Białowolski, P., VanderWeele, T.J., and McNeely, E. (2021). Character strengths involving an orientation to promote good can help your health and well-being. Evidence from two longitudinal studies. American Journal of Health Promotion, 35:388-398.
Kim, E.S., Whillans, A.V., Lee, M.T., Chen, Y. and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Volunteering and subsequent health and well-being in older adults: an outcome-wide longitudinal approach. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 59:176-186.
Hope and Optimism:
VanderWeele, T.J. and Kubzansky, L.D. (2021). Facets of optimism. American Psychologist, 76:1191-1193.
Long, K.N.G., Kim, E.S., Chen, Y., Wilson, M.F., Worthington, E.L., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). The role of hope in subsequent health and well-being for older adults: an outcome-wide longitudinal approach. Global Epidemiology, 2:100018.
Love:
Hanson, J. (2022). 'That Is Giving a Banquet’: Neighbor-Love as Spiritualizing Romantic Loves in Works of Love. Journal of Religious Ethics, in press.
Lee, M.T. (2021). Love as a foundational principle for humanistic management. In Michael Pirson (Ed.). Love and Organization: Lessons of Love for Human Dignity, Leadership and Motivation. Routledge.
Chen, Y., Haines, J. Charlton, B., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Positive parenting improves multiple aspects of health and well-being in young adulthood. Nature Human Behavior, 3:684-691.
Chen, Y. Kubzansky, L., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Parental warmth and flourishing in mid-life. Social Science and Medicine, 220:65-72.
Forgiveness:
Long, K., Worthington, E.L., VanderWeele, T.J. and Chen, Y. (2020). Forgiveness of others and subsequent health and well-being in mid-life: a longitudinal study on female nurses. BMC Psychology, 8:104.
Long, K., Chen, Y., Potts, M., Hanson, J., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Spiritually motivated self-forgiveness and divine forgiveness, and subsequent health and well-being among middle-aged female nurses: an outcome-wide longitudinal approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 (Article 1337):1-12.
Chen, Y., Harris, S.K, Worthington, E.L., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2019). Religiously or spiritually-motivated forgiveness and subsequent health and well-being among young adults: an outcome-wide analysis. Journal of Positive Psychology, 187:2355-2364.
VanderWeele, T.J. (2018). Is forgiveness a public health issue? American Journal of Public Health, 108:189-190.