The virtue of intellectual humility is getting a lot of attention. It’s heralded as a part of wisdom, an aid to self-improvement and a catalyst for more productive political dialogue. While ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes the evidence points you in a new direction. Schon/Moment via Getty Images Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of ...

Intellectual humility fosters open-mindedness and respectful dialogue. It involves acknowledging the limitations of our knowledge and genuinely valuing diverse perspectives. Intellectually humble ...

I answered this question along with a few others for Character Lab in a Tip of the Week: What is intellectual humility—and how is it different from just plain humility? Intellectual humility is about ...

How can scientists across climate science, medical and psychological topics foster the public’s trust in them and their science? Show that they are intellectually humble. Those are some of the ...

One of the skills students need to acquire with increasing sophistication is the evaluation of information they read, obtain online, or are given. This skill is referred to in various ways, including ...

There are a lot of reasons behind the political polarization of the country and the deterioration of civic discourse. I wonder if a lack of humility is one of them. In his recent book, "The Death of ...

Eranda Jayawickreme receives funding from the John Templeton Foundation (grant 62669). This article was produced with support from UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and the John Templeton ...

Many moons ago, I wrote an “infamous” paper, “Modest Systems Psychology: A Neutral Complement to Positive Psychological Thinking.” I call it infamous because, at the time, it was a tough “take-down” ...

There are a lot of reasons behind the political polarization of the country and the deterioration of civic discourse. I wonder if a lack of humility is one of them. In his recent book, The Death of ...

'Intellectual humility' has been something of a wallflower among personality traits, receiving far less attention than such brash qualities as egotism or hostility. Yet this little-studied ...

There are a lot of reasons behind the political polarization of the country and the deterioration of civic discourse. I wonder if a lack of humility is one of them. In his recent book, “The Death of ...