Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like.” This quote pithily underscores the human tendency to desire growth while also harboring strong resistance to the ...

In July 2022, the GGSC announced the 19 winners of our grants to support the production of innovative nonfiction stories on intellectual humility. In addition to financial support, offered in ...

The Greater Good Science Center’s three-year Intellectual Humility Project aimed to raise awareness of research on intellectual humility and its implications. As part of that, we supported 19 ...

Contributing columnist William McKenzie writes about a new study that shows intellectual humility not only helps us connect with one another, but makes us more persuasive. RYGERSZEM / Getty ...

What is wisdom, really? And why are we so wise at certain times yet so foolhardy at others? Modern science offers some ...

Handily, the psychologist behind the study says there are a few simple things business leaders can do to put the findings into practice. Among those researchers is Israel-born organizational ...

How can scientists across climate science, medical and psychological topics foster the public’s trust in them and their science? Show that they are intellectually humble. Those are some of the ...

Elise Ji Young Choe receives funding related to this research from a grant from the John Templeton Foundation on "Intellectual Humility and Religious Leaders." Steven Sandage receives funding related ...

In his 1861 treatise “Walking,” a remarkable reflection on life’s ample complexities, Henry David Thoreau poses a question vital even today: “Which is the best man to deal with — he who knows nothing ...

Being a religious leader means wearing many different hats. At times, their congregations expect them to convey passionate confidence – to be models of faith and strength. But wise leadership also ...

In my last article, I explained that “my conservative stock-picking approach stems from personal financial losses during the Great Recession.” Having once been a successful real estate developer worth ...