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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. 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)

Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

oh so me disassociated and depersonalized my entire life was a benefit in this one particular edge case? fine then. i’ll take it lol

recogni tion of the limitations of one’s knowledge may 69 help to safeguard us from some of our more authoritarian, dogmatic, and biased proclivities.

Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

Notably , empirical research has provided little evidence on how generalizable the 417 benefits or drawbacks of intellectual humility are beyond the unique contexts of WEIRD 418 (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) people 90 .

Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

This is so important to highlight and I instantly respect papers more when they state this

N o research has yet developed a valid 298 intellectual humility behavioral task by performing psychometric testing of theoretically 299 expected associations with other constructs and outcomes ,

Tenelle Porter • Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

Huh, fascinating. I didn’t expect this. Behavior task measurements are feeling like exactly the type of thing you want to do to study a highly variable yet specific task (like incident response). Why would this lag behind? Are we not studying the actions people take in the ER to manage incidents or what doctors do when faced with ICU patients and no time on the clock? How about rapid response nurses in life flight? Saying “idk but they’re dying and i gotta act” is like a prerequisite and you just can’t be effective without high intellectual humility in those fields, in my unprofessional and biased opinion

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

incident retros > “how to build correct systems” courses

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.

We critically examine diverse approaches to defining and mea suring 51 intellectual humility and identify the common core : a meta -cognitive ability to recognize the 52 limitations of one’s beliefs and knowledge