TITLE:
Love, Hope, Perspective, and Leadership in the Ngram Database: Solace for Modern Times
AUTHORS:
William H. Zywiak, Gao Niu
KEYWORDS:
Love, Hope, Perspective, Leadership, Ngram
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.11,
November
24,
2021
ABSTRACT: The
Ngram database allows searches that identify words that are top of mind in a
culture at a specific time. We used this database to discover the character
strengths that have been loudest in the conversation of the American English
publication record during the last 100 years, and in particular in 2019. Love,
perspective, and leadership have been increasing since 1920 and hope has been
increasing since 1987. Results suggest that these character strengths could be
increased even more with greater emphasis upon them. The Ngram database was
used to filter the 24 constructs identified by Peterson
and Seligman (2004) perhaps identifying four of the most important constructs now and ever.