Clarifying the Content of Intellectual Humility: A Systematic Review and Integrative Framework

Porter, Tenelle; Baldwin, Chayce R.; Warren, Michael T.; Murray, Elise D.; Bronk, Kendall Cotton; Forgeard, Marie; Snow, Nancy E.; Jayawickreme, Eranda

doi:10.1080/00223891.2021.1975725

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“…A cumulative science of intellectual humility benefits from clear definitions and explicit modelling of relationships between psychological processes and behavioural outcomes. Despite different conceptual approaches, most philosophers and psychologists agree that intellectual humility necessarily includes recognizing one’s ignorance and intellectual fallibility 26 . Hence, we focus on the metacognitive features of intellectual humility because they have consensus support from the scholarly community.…”

Section: Defining Intellectual Humilitymentioning

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“…One type of measurement is to ask participants to self-report on their intellectual humility in a questionnaire 26 . Questionnaires are used to assess trait and state (including belief-specific) intellectual humility.…”

Section: Measuring Intellectual Humilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Over the last decade, psychological scientists have developed many questionnaire measures of intellectual humility at the trait level 26 . The popularity of these measures is due to some level of predictive capacity and cost-effectiveness.…”

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In a time of societal acrimony, psychological scientists have turned to a possible antidote — intellectual humility. Interest in intellectual humility comes from diverse research areas, including researchers studying leadership and organizational behaviour, personality science, positive psychology, judgement and decision-making, education, culture, and intergroup and interpersonal relationships. In this Review, we synthesize empirical approaches to the study of intellectual humility. We critically examine diverse approaches to defining and measuring intellectual humility and identify the common element: a meta-cognitive ability to recognize the limitations of one’s beliefs and knowledge. After reviewing the validity of different measurement approaches, we highlight factors that influence intellectual humility, from relationship security to social coordination. Furthermore, we review empirical evidence concerning the benefits and drawbacks of intellectual humility for personal decision-making, interpersonal relationships, scientific enterprise and society writ large. We conclude by outlining initial attempts to boost intellectual humility, foreshadowing possible scalable interventions that can turn intellectual humility into a core interpersonal, institutional and cultural value.

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“…Those who score high on broad measures of intellectual humility, based on this definition, are more agreeable and open-minded (Leary et al, 2017). More recently, Porter et al (2021) refined intellectual humility by developing a classification framework introducing different forms of intellectual humility. This classification is based on whether the intellectual humility is focused on the self or others – that is, about one’s own or another person’s beliefs – and whether it is internal or expressed – that is, about self-reflective awareness and cognitions compared to behavioral manifestations.…”

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When You Are Wrong on Facebook, Just Admit It

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Social Psychology

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Abstract. Intellectually humble behavior, like admitting when you are wrong, leads to better impression formation. However, online social networks (OSNs) have changed the impression formation process. We investigated the impact of wrongness admission on impression formation during an OSN argument. In four experiments ( N = 679), participants witnessed a user engage in wrongness admission, refuse to admit, or not respond, in an argument on a Facebook wall. Participants reported their impressions of whether they would be willing to interact with the (non)admitting user. User reputation ratings and interaction intentions were higher in the admission (vs. nonadmission) condition. The latter effect was mediated by user reputation ratings. Wrongness admission appears to have a positive impact on impression formation on OSNs.

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“…Designing and deploying interventions that aim to influence the extent to which authors are open to learning new information would benefit from identifying the psychological mechanisms underlying this behavioral expression of openness. One likely candidate mechanism is intellectual humility [47]. Intellectual humility is defined by having a non-threatening awareness of one's intellectual fallibility [48] and being attentive to limitations in the evidence for one's beliefs and to one's limitations in obtaining and evaluating relevant information [49].…”

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Modeling observed gender imbalances in academic citation practices

Stiso¹,

Oudyk²,

Bertolero³

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In multiple academic disciplines, having a perceived gender of 'woman' is associated with a lower than expected rate of citations. In some fields, that disparity is driven primarily by the citations of men and is increasing over time despite increasing diversification of the profession. It is likely that complex social interactions and individual ideologies shape these disparities. Computational models of select factors that reproduce empirical observations can help us understand some of the minimal driving forces behind these complex phenomena and therefore aid in their mitigation. Here, we present a simple agent-based model of citation practices within academia, in which academics generate citations based on three factors: their estimate of the collaborative network of the field (i.e., their understanding of who is in the field and with whom those people collaborate), how they sample that estimate, and how open they are to learning about their field from other academics. We show that increasing homophily-or the tendency of people to interact with others more like themselves-in these three domains is sufficient to reproduce observed biases in citation practices. We find that independent sources of homophily control the static and time-varying aspects of citation bias. More specifically, homophily in sampling an estimate of the field influences total citation rates, and openness to learning from new and unfamiliar authors influences the change in those citations over time. We next model a real-world intervention-the citation diversity statement-which has the potential to influence both of these parameters. We determine a parameterization of our model that matches the citation practices of academics who use the citation diversity statement. This parameterization paired with an openness to learning from many new authors can result in citation practices that are equitable and stable over time. Ultimately, our work underscores the importance of homophily in shaping citation practices and provides evidence that specific actions may mitigate biased citation practices in academia.

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Clarifying the Content of Intellectual Humility: A Systematic Review and Integrative Framework

Cited by 70 publications

References 52 publications

Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility

When You Are Wrong on Facebook, Just Admit It

Modeling observed gender imbalances in academic citation practices

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