The psychological significance of humility

Wright, Jennifer; Nadelhoffer, Thomas; Perini, Tyler; Langville, Amy N.; Echols, Matthew; Venezia, Kelly

doi:10.1080/17439760.2016.1167940

Cited by 65 publications

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“…Such attention is especially warranted given recent research that emphasizes the state-like qualities of humility, including its capacity to be primed (e.g. Wright et al 2017) and developed or grown over time (e.g. Rego et al 2017a).…”

Section: Moving Beyond Outcomes: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humility: Our Current Understanding of the Construct and its Role in Organizations

Nielsen¹,

Marrone

2018

Int J Management Reviews

101

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Since 2000, researchers and practitioners have shown increased interest in humility. This construct has been studied in disciplines ranging from organizational behaviour to positive psychology, culminating in a wealth of information that can now be analysed and reviewed through the lens of humility in organizations. This review begins by reflecting on existing conceptualizations of humility and presenting a summary of findings that reflects a greater consensus in definitional work than some researchers may realize. It then considers the progress that has been made in measuring humility by specifying key measurement strategies. It next synthesizes existing empirical findings on humility to illuminate the uniqueness of the construct. It also shows that researchers have focused on studying dependent variables that exist at multiple organizational levels and that largely comprise pro-social and relational variables, emotional well-being, and learning and performance outcomes. The paper concludes with recommendations for future research.

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Section: Moving Beyond Outcomes: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humility: Our Current Understanding of the Construct and its Role in Organizations

Nielsen¹,

Marrone

2018

Int J Management Reviews

101

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“…Historically, humility has been perceived as an undesirable quality associated with weakness, self-abasement, and unworthiness [6]. However, modern psychologists have discovered evidence to the contrary.…”

Section: Its Interpersonal Component Includes Holding Egalitarian Belmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humble doctors, healthy patients? Exploring the relationships between clinician humility and patient satisfaction, trust, and health status

Huynh

Dicke-Bohmann

2020

Patient Education and Counseling

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Objective: In medicine, numerous commentaries implore clinicians (e.g., physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners) to display more humility. However, given the complex power dynamics between patients and clinicians, one should not presume that patients desire and appreciate humble clinicians. This paper examines the relationship between clinician humility and patient outcomes, and aims to provide empirical evidence for the significance of clinician humility. Methods: In two studies, patients (N = 497) recalled their most recent visit to a clinician through an online survey platform (Qualtrics). Patients rated their clinician's humility, their satisfaction and trust with their clinician, and their health status. They also provided demographic information (e.g., gender, race, subjective SES), details about their clinician (e.g., gender, race, professional status) and information about their last medical visit with this clinician (e.g., purpose of visit, wait time during visit). Results: Through hierarchical multiple regression, we demonstrated that clinician humility positively predicted patient satisfaction, trust, and selfreport health (only in Study 2) above and beyond patient, clinician, and visit characteristics. Conclusion: The results demonstrated that clinician humility can predict important patient outcomes above and beyond objective characteristics of the medical interaction. Practice Implications: These findings may shape clinician-patient interactions by validating the pursuit of humility during medical encounters.

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“…Epistemical is defined as the “experience of oneself” (Wright et al, 2018, p. 94) in perspective of something greater; seeing oneself as a small, finite and fallible part of a larger entity. Ethical alignment is defined as empathic engagement with the “experience of all else” (Wright et al, 2018, p. 94); extending compassion toward all things within that larger entity, resulting in reduced self-orientation and increased other orientation (Wright, Nadelhoffer, Perini, Langville, Echols, & Venezia, 2017). The perspective, empathy, and shift in orientation may reduce defensiveness and self-condemnation, respectively, enabling self-forgiveness in the aftermath of transgressing.…”

Section: What Is Humility?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Humility and its Relationship to Self-condemnation, Defensiveness and Self-forgiveness Following Interpersonal Transgressions

Onody¹,

Woodyatt²,

Wenzel³

et al. 2020

Journal of Psychology and Theology

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Ideally, following an interpersonal transgression an offender will accept responsibility, work through guilt or shame, and be willing to reconcile with the victim. However, this process can be thwarted by defensiveness or self-condemnation. We tested whether humility was associated with increased self-forgiveness, decreased self-condemnation and defensiveness, and increased willingness to reconcile. In Study 1 ( N = 302), we found trait humility was associated with higher levels of trait self-forgiveness directly and indirectly via reduced defensiveness (but not self-condemnation). In Study 2 ( N = 194), we found that trait and state humility were associated with higher levels of self-forgiveness directly and indirectly via reduced defensiveness, and through both of these, humility was positively associated with willingness to reconcile. There was also a weak positive indirect effect of humility on willingness to reconcile via reduced self-condemnation. These studies suggest that humility, long ignored in forgiveness studies, might play several crucial roles.

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The psychological significance of humility

Cited by 65 publications

References 44 publications

Humility: Our Current Understanding of the Construct and its Role in Organizations

Humility: Our Current Understanding of the Construct and its Role in Organizations

Humble doctors, healthy patients? Exploring the relationships between clinician humility and patient satisfaction, trust, and health status

Humility and its Relationship to Self-condemnation, Defensiveness and Self-forgiveness Following Interpersonal Transgressions

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