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Via Character Testing

This document lists and defines 24 character strengths including humor, kindness, love, social intelligence, appreciation of beauty and excellence, curiosity, honesty, bravery, gratitude, fairness, hope, love of learning, zest, forgiveness, judgment, perseverance, leadership, creativity, perspective, prudence, teamwork, humility, spirituality, and self-regulation. Each strength is briefly defined in one sentence to describe what it means to possess that strength.

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Via Character Testing

This document lists and defines 24 character strengths including humor, kindness, love, social intelligence, appreciation of beauty and excellence, curiosity, honesty, bravery, gratitude, fairness, hope, love of learning, zest, forgiveness, judgment, perseverance, leadership, creativity, perspective, prudence, teamwork, humility, spirituality, and self-regulation. Each strength is briefly defined in one sentence to describe what it means to possess that strength.

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Melissa Scannell

1: Humor
Liking to laugh and tease; bringing smiles to other people; seeing the light side;
making (not necessarily telling) jokes.

2: Kindness
Doing favors and good deeds for others; helping them; taking care of them.

3: Love
Valuing close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing & caring are
reciprocated; being close to people.

4: Social intelligence
Being aware of the motives/feelings of others and oneself; knowing what to do to fit
into different social situations; knowing what makes other people tick.

5: Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence


Noticing and appreciating beauty, excellence, and/or skilled performance in various
domains of life, from nature to art to mathematics to science to everyday experience.

6: Curiosity
Taking an interest in ongoing experience for its own sake; finding subjects and topics
fascinating; exploring and discovering.

7: Honesty
Speaking the truth but more broadly presenting oneself in a genuine way and acting in
a sincere way; being without pretense; taking responsibility for one's feelings and
actions.

8: Bravery
Not shrinking from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; speaking up for what’s right
even if there’s opposition; acting on convictions even if unpopular; includes physical
bravery but is not limited to it.

9: Gratitude
Being aware of and thankful for the good things that happen; taking time to express
thanks.

10: Fairness

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Treating all people the same according to notions of fairness and justice; not letting
feelings bias decisions about others; giving everyone a fair chance.

11: Hope
Expecting the best in the future and working to achieve it; believing that a good future
is something that can be brought about.

12: Love of learning


Mastering new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one's own or
formally; related to the strength of curiosity but goes beyond it to describe the
tendency to add systematically to what one knows.

13: Zest
Approaching life with excitement and energy; not doing things halfway or
halfheartedly; living life as an adventure; feeling alive and activated.

14: Forgiveness
Forgiving those who have done wrong; accepting others’ shortcomings; giving people
a second chance; not being vengeful.

15: Judgment
Thinking things through and examining them from all sides; not jumping to
conclusions; being able to change one's mind in light of evidence; weighing all
evidence fairly.

16: Perseverance
Finishing what one starts; persevering in a course of action in spite of obstacles;
“getting it out the door”; taking pleasure in completing tasks.

17: Leadership
Encouraging a group of which one is a member to get things done and at the same
time maintain good relations within the group; organizing group activities and seeing
that they happen.

18: Creativity
Thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things; includes
artistic achievement but is not limited to it.

19: Perspective

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Being able to provide wise counsel to others; having ways of looking at the world that
make sense to oneself/others.

20: Prudence
Being careful about one's choices; not taking undue risks; not saying or doing things
that might later be regretted.

21: Teamwork
Working well as a member of a group or team; being loyal to the group; doing one's
share.

22: Humility
Letting one's accomplishments speak for themselves; not regarding oneself as more
special than one is.

23: Spirituality
Having coherent beliefs about the higher purpose and meaning of the universe;
knowing where one fits within the larger scheme; having beliefs about the meaning of
life that shape conduct and provide comfort.

24: Self-Regulation
Regulating what one feels and does; being disciplined; controlling one's appetites and
emotions.

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