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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Research & Resources
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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What we owe to ourselves:
Investigating people’s sense of obligations to the selfby Laura K. Soter, Susan A. Gelman, & Fan Yang
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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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Life in three dimensions
How curiosity, exploration, and experience make a fuller, better lifeby Shigehiro Oishi
