You may think there are no benefits to being modest, but a study found that that modest people are much better at moderating their emotions than, well, their less modest peers. Modesty is an ...

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. But some virtues go dormant for generations, ...

What you see as modest depends on who you are, the norms you grew up with and the ones you eventually decide to stick with. As for the term modest fashion, it began to emerge in 2010 and went ...

I think most people would agree that modesty is a virtue, a quality that we admire in people and that we try to emulate. But what exactly does modesty involve, and how exactly is it a virtue (in the ...

If it doesn’t include social interaction, norms and a desire not to offend, it’s not modesty, CU Boulder philosopher Derick Hughes argues When it comes to definition, “modesty” doesn’t seem all that ...