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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I ndividuals might only be able to embrace intellectual humility to the extent that 609 institutions validate and support it .

Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

Developer thriving yet again :)

I ntellectual 598 humility interventions might need to also incorporate social -contextua l elements, such as 599 changing organizational cultures , to produce meaningful improvements .

Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

This makes sense to me. I’ve been thinking of harmful anger and other negative types of mindsets and world views as a disease, lately. Something that actively impairs the mind and social constructs. It makes sense to me that you would actually need to treat something like social health as an immune system against the chaos/damage. In that view, I’d expect that a healthy society would actually want to develop these immune system responses: things like exercise, eating healthy, good quality sleep, etc., are all life-long endeavors. It makes sense that community building, reinforcing intellectual humility, etc., are also life-long endeavors and continual habits in the same way.

Overall, research supports the use of self -distanced diary writing to increase intellectual humility . 547 By contrast, e vidence remains limited and inconclusive on whether intellectual humility can be 548 increased with classroom teaching .

Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

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p eople also overestimated their self -reported 505 knowledge of a policy less after writing a detailed explanation of how that policy works , thereby 506 recognizing that their knowledge of the policy was less complete than they originally thought

Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

Huh, this could imply that using AI to summarize everything ever rather than having to explain and disseminate information to others could be harmful to the person sending the information, not just the person receiving it. That doesn’t bode well… Also, how might one build knowledge work tooling that combats this while facilitating information dissemination tasks?

. Participants showed higher levels of intellectual humility after reflect ing on 499 experiences by taking a step back and envisioning oneself from the vantage point of a distant 500 observer (self -distanced), rather than imagining oneself living out a particular situation (self -501 immersed)