Classroom environment predicts changes in expressed intellectual humility

Porter, Tenelle; Molina, Diego Catalán; Lucas, Michelle; Oberle, Catherine; Trzesniewski, Kali H.

doi:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2022.102081

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“…Therefore, one important avenue for future research is to explore how to experimentally manipulate intellectual humility in the context of controversial debates. Insights from studies focused on fostering intellectual humility could provide inspiration, for example, work on the explanatory depth approach (e.g., Sloman & Vives, 2022; Vaupotič et al, 2021) or interventions implemented at schools (e.g., Ellerton et al, 2022; Meagher et al, 2019; Porter, Catalán Molina, et al, 2022; Porter & Schumann, 2018; Porter et al, 2020).…”

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Effects of intellectual humility in the context of affective polarization: Approaching and avoiding others in controversial political discussions.

Knöchelmann,

Cohrs

2024

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Effects of intellectual humility in the context of affective polarization: Approaching and avoiding others in controversial political discussions.

Knöchelmann,

Cohrs

2024

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Recent theoretical suggestions, however, have highlighted one promising avenue of inquiry. It is argued that fostering intellectual virtues, like intellectual humility, should be a priority in the educational enterprise (Baehr, 2013; Pritchard, 2020), and encouraging new research has shown that mastery‐oriented teaching practices predict increases in expressed intellectual humility among middle schoolers over 1 school year (Porter et al, 2022). We see the further development of approaches like this, aimed at fostering lasting changes in intellectual humility, as an imperative direction for future research.…”

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Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect

Sgambati

Ayduk

2023

Political Psychology

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Political polarization is increasing in the United States, threatening social harmony. As this threat grows, it is important to identify factors that engender polarization and ways to disrupt them. To this end, we examined the buffering role of intellectual humility against political polarization and the potential mediating role of political heterophily (i.e., affiliation and communication with political outgroup members). Data were collected in five assessments over an eight‐month period, beginning one day prior to the 2020 U.S. presidential election (N = 387) and ending in July 2021 (N = 181). Results showed that intellectual humility was associated with (1) less affective and attitudinal polarization (although in some cases this effect was only present among conservatives) and (2) more political heterophily. Cross‐sectional and prospective mediation analyses suggested that intellectual humility may act through political heterophily to reduce attitude polarization. Our findings offer support for the notion that intellectual humility buffers against political polarization and provide preliminary evidence for political heterophily as one mechanism of action.

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“…Insights from studies focused on fostering intellectual humility could provide inspiration, e.g. work on the explanatory depth approach (e.g., Sloman & Vives, 2022;Vaupotič et al, 2021), or interventions implemented at schools (e.g., Ellerton et al, 2022;Meagher et al, 2019;Porter, Catalán Molina, et al, 2022;Porter et al, 2020;Porter & Schumann, 2018).…”

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Effects of Intellectual Humility in the Context of Affective Polarization: Approaching and Avoiding Others in Controversial Political Discussions

Knöchelmann,

Cohrs

2024

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Affective polarization, the extent to which political actors treat each other as disliked outgroups, is challenging political exchange and deliberation, e.g. via mistrust of the ‘political enemy’ and unwillingness to discuss political topics with them. The present experiments address this problem and study what makes people approach, and not avoid, potential discussion partners in the context of polarized political topics in Germany. We hypothesized that intellectual humility, the recognition of one’s intellectual limitations, would predict both less affective polarization and higher approach and lower avoidance tendencies toward contrary minded-others. Across four pre-registered online survey experiments (N = 1668), we manipulated how intellectually humble a target person was perceived and measured participants’ self-reported (topic-specific) intellectual humility. Results revealed that participants’ intellectual humility was consistently negatively correlated with affective polarization. Additionally, intellectual humility of both the target person and the participants was beneficial, and sometimes even necessary, to make participants approach, and not avoid, the target person. Intellectual humility was more important than moral conviction, opinion, and opinion strength. Furthermore, the effects on approach and avoidance were mediated by more positive expectations regarding the debate, and the effects on future willingness for contact by higher target liking. Our findings suggest that intellectual humility is an important characteristic to enable political exchange as it leads to seeing political outgroups more positively and to a higher willingness to engage in intergroup contact. Implications for intergroup contact of political groups as well as ideas for future research are discussed.

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Classroom environment predicts changes in expressed intellectual humility

Cited by 8 publications

References 63 publications

Effects of intellectual humility in the context of affective polarization: Approaching and avoiding others in controversial political discussions.

Effects of intellectual humility in the context of affective polarization: Approaching and avoiding others in controversial political discussions.

Intellectual Humility and Political Polarization: An Exploration of Social Networks, Attitudes, and Affect

Effects of Intellectual Humility in the Context of Affective Polarization: Approaching and Avoiding Others in Controversial Political Discussions

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