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Objective
We aim to identify the major ideas and trends in the study of morality within personality psychology over the past 100 years.
Method
Our historical review is organized into three sections, examining moral dimensions in personality from the standpoints of the person as (1) a social actor (moral traits), (2) a motivated agent (the mental infrastructure of morality), and (3) an autobiographical...