Wise Reasoning in the Face of Everyday Life Challenges
By Igor Grossmann, Tanja M. Gerlach, Jaap J. A. Denissen. 2016
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How stable vs. dynamic is wisdom in daily life? We conducted a daily diary study of wise reasoning (WR) by recording people’s reflections on daily challenges in terms of three facets: intellectual humility, self-transcendence, and consideration of others’ perspectives/compromise. We observed substantial and systematic intraindividual variability in WR, with wiser reasoning in the social versus nonsocial contexts. State-level WR variability was potent in predicting a bigger-picture construal of the event, more positive (vs. negative) emotions, greater emotional complexity, lower emotional reactivity, less thought suppression, and more reappraisal and forgiveness. In contrast, on the trait level, we observed only a few associations to emotional complexity and reappraisal. We discuss implications for conceptualization and measurement of wisdom-related thought.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/bbd82f2fdaf8318d4cbce6ac56760e862e5e0744
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In Applied Psychology
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In Social Psychology
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- The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns (2020, background): “This research highlights the utility of going beyond mere categorization of emotional experiences in terms of their valence or arousal and consideration of emotional granularity or complexity (Barrett; Grossmann et al., 2016).”
- Intellectual humility and openness to the opposing view (2018, background): “One possibility is that intellectual humility boosts openness by shaping emotional processes such as down-regulation of emotion (Gross, 2015), or differentiated emotion (Grossmann et al., 2016).”