Our Mission
Deepen our scientific understanding of wisdom and its role in the decisions and choices that affect everyday life.
Connect scientists, scholars, educators, and students to initiate wisdom research & disseminate findings to the public
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We want to understand how an individual develops wisdom and the circumstances and situations in which people are most likely to make wise decisions. We hope that, by deepening our scientific understanding of wisdom, we will also begin to understand how to gain, reinforce, and apply wisdom and, in turn, become wiser as a society.
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Highlighted Publications
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Who would you save?
Children and mothers' life-or-death decisionsby Qiongwen Cao, Fan Yang, Haocheng Ma, and Jean Decety
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From wisdom to efficacy:
The mediating role of positivity ratio in the relationship between university students’ knowledge strengths and academic self-efficacyby Sitong Li and Mingchun Luo
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Practical wisdom, emerging technologies, and AI
by Shane McLoughlin, Verónica Fernández-Espinosa and Marta Velázquez-Gil
