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Can Intellectual Humility Save Us from Ourselves?

Intellectual humility is defined as a willingness to admit you’re wrong. It could be just the idea for our self-righteous times.
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What Is Intellectual Humility?

Almost all of us are far more confident in ourselves than we probably should be. If we humbly admit this, does it improve how we deal with conflict?

Intellectual Humility: Foundations and Key Concepts

Research about intellectual humility has exploded in the past decade. Psychologist Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso offers an annotated bibliography of key texts.
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Second Opinions: On Intellectual Humility and Medicine

What happens when doctors admit they don't know everything?
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What if AI Operated with Intellectual Humility?

In the race between humans and machines, imagine a future in which everyone and everything wins.

Doing Math with Intellectual Humility

Math class is an opportunity to teach students both how to use conjecture to arrive at knowledge and how to learn from the logic of peers.
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Drinking with Intellectual Humility

What happens when you mix alcohol with intellectual humility? A philosopher asks a writer and former bartender to share her thoughts.
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Come Let Us Argue: Faith and Intellectual Humility

Can belief in the divine endure in an individual who possesses an openness to being wrong? How do doubt and faith co-exist among the religious?
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Woolly Dogs, Butterflies, and Brain Injuries

Well-researched stories from Yale Environment 360, Literary Hub, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Migraines, Genghis Khan’s World, and Indian Dance

Well-researched stories from Black Perspectives, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Monster Worms, Modern Sufis, and the Origins of Life

Well-researched stories from Vox, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Ape Memories, Hearing Aids, and The Color Purple

Well-researched stories from Undark, OpenMind Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Keeping Time: A New Year’s Collection

A selection of stories that chronicle our complicated notions of time.
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Best of Suggested Readings 2023

Well-researched stories about diving horses, invasive iguanas, and more from publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Editors’ Picks of 2023

Alien pastures, football in prison, and the Prairie School: a collection of this year’s greatest hits from JSTOR Daily.
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What We’re Reading 2023

Enjoy a fresh batch of year-end book reports from all of the readers, writers, and editors at JSTOR Daily!
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Poinsettias, Perception, and Taylor Swift

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Literary Hub, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Honeyguides, Transparent Wood, and Legends of Zelda

Well-researched stories from NPR, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Napping Penguins, Moon Landings, and Angels with Guns

Well-researched stories from Nursing Clio, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Balinese Art, Worm Consciousness, and Exoplanets

Well-researched stories from Aeon, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Electric Eels, Deepfakes, and Asbestos

Well-researched stories from Knowable Magazine, The New Yorker, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Urban Ghosts, Lessons from Lice, and Not Going to Mars

Well-researched stories from Undark, Quanta Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Chimpanzees, End Times, and the Letter R

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Creativity, Misinformation, and Dusty Snow

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Eos, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Osage Nation, Chinese Exams, and Dead Spiders

Well-researched stories from Aeon, CrimeReads, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.