The materials below feature the talks from the roundtable, morality and culture symposia, flash-talks, and empirical papers recommended in pre-summit survey.
Wisdom Roundtable
Dr. Judith Glück | Some Thoughts on the State of the Field
Morality Talks
Dr. Kurt Gray | Using Wisdom to Bridge Political Divides
Dr. Larisa Heiphetz | Wisdom and Morality in the Context of Religion
Dr. Sendhil Mullainathan | Cultivating Wisdom
Culture Talks
Dr. Michael Harris Bond | Perceiving Another as Wise
Dr. H. Clark Barrett | Unwise Choices and the Landscape of Morality
Dr. Xindong Wei (speaker) & Dr. Fengyan Wang | Solomon is WEIRD
Flash Talks
Afternoon Session | 11:55am-12:40pm EDT
Anna Dorfman, Justin Brienza, Ramona Bobocel | Mind the Gap: Wisdom Attenuates a Male Bias Toward Gender Pay-Gap Denialism
Imke Harbig | What Dumbledore and Gandalf Have in Common: Wise Exemplars in Books, Films, and Video Games
Sabena Y. Jameel | Enacted Phronesis (Practical Wisdom) in Medical Practitioners
Elina Paananen, Eeva Kallio, Päivi Tynjälä | University Students’ Descriptions of Their Wise Solutions
Prarthana Saikia, Ankita Sharma | Wise Negotiation Through Exposure to Diversity and Perspective-Taking Capability
Abhishek Sharma, Ankita Sharma | Translational Relation of Wisdom and Transformational Leadership: Exploring Conceptualization and Predictions
Andreas Scherpf | Wisdom Resources as a Protection Against conspiracy Beliefs?
Yanbin Zheng, Guang-heng Dong, Harley Glassman, Chenli Huang, Ran Xuan, Chan S. Hu | Association of Resting-State Neural Activities with Wise Advising from a Second- or Third-Person Perspective: an fMRI Study
Evening Session | 7:30pm-8:15pm EDT
Svea Staby, Justin Brienza, Bernard McKenna, Ali Intezari | Symbolic Leadership Paying Wellbeing Dividends: An Assessment of Perceptions Regarding How Leaders Respond During Crises
Patricia D. Chilton, Cindy B. Woolverton, Elizabeth Glisky, Matthew Grilli, Matthias Mehl | Generativity in Informal Life Review: Discovering Life Lessons and Wisdom in Naturalistic Intergenerational Conversations
Izzy Gainsburg, Julia Lee Cunningham | Limited Compassion Mindsets Also Limit Moral Expansiveness: An Example of How Beliefs About Emotions can Influence Moral Outcomes
Juensung Kim | Most Wisdom Researchers are Interested in Sagehood, not Wisdom
Jordan D. Millhollin, Wei Wei Lee, Nic M. Weststrate, James N. Woodruff | Generating a Theory of Wisdom Development in Medicine
Melanie Munroe, Helen Wuisse Chan, Neeti Sharma, Michel Ferrari | Adaptive vs. Maladaptive Coping in the Face of Trauma
Zachary T. Swanson, Jill Shelton, Ruth Walker, Ralph Hood, Khushi Dhruv, Andrea Martinez | Intergenerational Dialogue and Wisdom Narratives
Alexander C. Walker, Martin Harry Turpin, Igor Grossmann, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Michal Bialek | Better the Two Devils You Know, Than the One You Don’t: Predictability Influences Judgments of Moral Character
Recommended Empirical Readings
Culture and Morality
Chao, M. M., Takeuchi, R., & Farh, J. L. (2016). Enhancing Cultural Intelligence: The Roles of Implicit Culture Beliefs and Adjustment. Personnel Psychology, 70(1), 257–292. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12142
Choi, E., Farb, N., Pogrebtsova, E., Gruman, J., & Grossmann, I. (2021). What do people mean when they talk about mindfulness? Clinical Psychology Review, 89, 102085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2021.102085
Conroy, M., Malik, A. Y., Hale, C., Weir, C., Brockie, A., & Turner, C. (2021). Using practical wisdom to facilitate ethical decision-making: a major empirical study of phronesis in the decision narratives of doctors. BMC Medical Ethics, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00581-y
Dorfman, A., Moscovitch, D. A., Chopik, W. J., & Grossmann, I. (2021). None the wiser: Year-long longitudinal study on effects of adversity on wisdom. European Journal of Personality, 089020702110140. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070211014057
Goodwin, G. P., Piazza, J., & Rozin, P. (2014). Moral character predominates in person perception and evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(1), 148–168. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034726
Grossmann, I. (2017). Wisdom in Context. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(2), 233–257. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616672066
Grossmann, I., Dorfman, A., Oakes, H., Santos, H. C., Vohs, K. D., & Scholer, A. A. (2021). Training for Wisdom: The Distanced-Self-Reflection Diary Method. Psychological Science, 32(3), 381–394. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620969170
Grossmann, I., Eibach, R. P., Koyama, J., & Sahi, Q. (2020). Folk standards of sound judgment: Rationality versus reasonableness. Science Advances, 6(2), eaaz0289.
Grossmann, I., Twardus, O., Varnum, M. E. W., Jayawickreme, E., & McLevey, J. (in press). Expert predictions of societal change: Insights from the World after COVID project. American Psychologist.
Grossmann, I., Weststrate, N. M., Ferrari, M., & Brienza, J. P. (2020). A Common Model Is Essential for a Cumulative Science of Wisdom. Psychological Inquiry, 31(2), 185–194. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840x.2020.1750920
Hu, C. S., Ji, J., Huang, J., Feng, Z., Xie, D., Li, M., Liang, Z., & Wei, Z. (2021). Wiser Reasoning and Less Disgust Have the Potential to Better Achieve Suicide Prevention. Crisis, 42(3), 202–209. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000709
Janssen, E. M., Verkoeijen, P. P., Heijltjes, A. E., Mainhard, T., van Peppen, L. M., & van Gog, T. (2020). Psychometric properties of the Actively Open-minded Thinking scale. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 36, 100659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2020.100659
Santos, H. C., Huynh, A. C., & Grossmann, I. (2017). Wisdom in a complex world: A situated account of wise reasoning and its development. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11(10), e12341. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12341
Ståhl, T., Zaal, M. P., & Skitka, L. J. (2016). Moralized Rationality: Relying on Logic and Evidence in the Formation and Evaluation of Belief Can Be Seen as a Moral Issue. PLOS ONE, 11(11), e0166332. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166332
Thomas, B., Coon, J., Westfall, H. A., & Lee, M. D. (2021). Model‐Based Wisdom of the Crowd for Sequential Decision‐Making Tasks. Cognitive Science, 45(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13011
Thomas, M. L., Martin, A. S., Eyler, L., Lee, E. E., Macagno, E., Devereaux, M., Chiong, W., & Jeste, D. V. (2019). Individual differences in level of wisdom are associated with brain activation during a moral decision‐making task. Brain and Behavior, 9(6). https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1302
Vauclair, C. M., & Fischer, R. (2011). Do cultural values predict individuals’ moral attitudes? A cross-cultural multilevel approach. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(5), 645–657. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.794
Weststrate, N. M., Ferrari, M., & Ardelt, M. (2016). The Many Faces of Wisdom. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(5), 662–676. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216638075
Zachry, C. E., Phan, L. V., Blackie, L. E. R., & Jayawickreme, E. (2018). Situation-Based Contingencies Underlying Wisdom-Content Manifestations: Examining Intellectual Humility in Daily Life. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73(8), 1404–1415. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby016
Socio-political
Bardy, R., Arthur, R., & Helen, A. A. (2018). Combining indigenous wisdom and academic knowledge to build sustainable future: An example from rural Africa. Journal of African Studies and Development, 10(2), 8–18. https://doi.org/10.5897/jasd2017.0481
Baron, J. (2019). Actively open-minded thinking in politics. Cognition, 188, 8–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.004
Brienza, J. P., Kung, F. Y. H., & Chao, M. M. (2021). Wise reasoning, intergroup positivity, and attitude polarization across contexts. Nature Communications, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23432-1
Fischer, R., Ferreira, M. C., van Meurs, N., Gok, K., Jiang, D. Y., Fontaine, J. R. J., Harb, C., Cieciuch, J., Achoui, M., Mendoza, M. S. D., Hassan, A., Achmadi, D., Mogaji, A. A., & Abubakar, A. (2017). Does organizational formalization facilitate voice and helping organizational citizenship behaviors? It depends on (national) uncertainty norms. Journal of International Business Studies, 50(1), 125–134. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-017-0132-6
Kahan, D. M., Landrum, A., Carpenter, K., Helft, L., & Hall Jamieson, K. (2017). Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing. Political Psychology, 38, 179–199. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12396
Kahan, D. M., Peters, E., Dawson, E. C., & Slovic, P. (2013). Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government. SSRN Electronic Journal. Published. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2319992
Kim, J. J., Munroe, M., Feng, Z., Morris, S., Al-Refae, M., Antonacci, R., & Ferrari, M. (2021). Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648060
Saleh Al-Omoush, K., Orero-Blat, M., & Ribeiro-Soriano, D. (2021). The role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of crowds and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Business Research, 132, 765–774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.10.056
Santos, H. C., & Grossmann, I. (2020). Cross-Temporal Exploration of the Relationship Between Wisdom-Related Cognitive Broadening and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From a Cross-Validated National Longitudinal Study. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(4), 506–516. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620921619
Streib, H., Chen, Z. J., & Hood, R. W. (2021). Faith development as change in religious types: Results from three-wave longitudinal data with faith development interviews. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Published. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000440
Taber, C. S., & Lodge, M. (2006). Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs. American Journal of Political Science, 50(3), 755–769. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2006.00214.x