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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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Sublimating Aristotle’s Phronesis:
Developing a Scale of Organizational Practical Wisdomby Raysa Rocha, Paulo Pinheiro, Marcia Juliana d'Angelo, & Florian Kragulj
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The International Handbook of Adult Development and Wisdom
edited by Judith Stevens-Long and Eeva K. Kallio
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Born to Flourish:
How New Science and Ancient Wisdom Reveal a Simple Path to Thrivingby Richard J. Davidson & Cortland Dahl
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Imagining and building wise machines:
The centrality of AI metacognitionby Samuel G.B. Johnson, Amir-Hossein Karimi, Yoshua Bengio, Nick Chater, Tobias Gerstenberg, Kate Larson, Sydney Levine, Melanie Mitchell, Iyad Rahwan, Bernhard Schölkopf, & Igor Grossmann
