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Article: Book by UC Santa Cruz Professor Attacks Character Issue.
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- December 4, 2002
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Byline: University of California, Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Dec. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Does the issue of character matter? Should it influence which political candidate we vote for, whom we hire, or what we teach our children in school?
A new book by John M. Doris, associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, argues that people often profoundly overestimate the behavioral impact of character and in turn, underestimate the impact of situations. Drawing on a vast array of psychological studies, Doris found that circumstance has an extraordinary effect on how people actually behave, regardless of whatever character ...