Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

The article reviews intellectual humility, exploring its definitions, measurements, influencing factors, and benefits to individuals and society, while proposing strategies for its cultivation in various contexts.

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Cultivate intellectual humility

The world is messy and full of ambiguities. Intellectual humility is about embracing complexity instead of trying to collapse all of our uncertainty into a neat, binary ideology.

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Can intellectual humility be cultivated? I believe so. Intellectual humility recognizes the limits of one’s intellect, how easily it errs, and the sheer number of things that we do not yet know. But intellectual humility is also the acceptance that we often need more time to digest and understand something—even of our own experiences in life—before... See more

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