As a list, the Seven Deadly Sins are more about the human desire to organise our experience of the world than a complete list of failings. Still, they’ve held the popular imagination for a very long time and The Psychologist (Journal of the British Psychological Society) has a great discussion of modern research and theory around these old ideas.
I really wanted to add a list of seven deadly writers’ sins, but my brain is fried. So no humour, just a link to a thought-provoking article.
