The reduction of 'humility'/'humbleness' was across a broad sample of books, not only the self-help section, and was part of a broader study [1] describing the

The reduction of 'humility'/'humbleness' was across a broad sample of books, not only the self-help section, and was part of a broader study [1] describing the down-trend in many words associated with virtue. You can indeed interpret these statistics in many ways, but you first need to know the statistics. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254336923_The_cultural_salience_of_moral_character_and_virtue_declined_in_twentieth_century_America https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254336923_The_cultu...