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the scientific understanding of wisdom

“We think about practical wisdom as considering value commitments that are concerned with understanding the impact of decisions on others.”
— Dr. Howard C. Nusbaum Center Director, Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology A Message From Our Founder

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Deepen our scientific understanding of wisdom and its role in the decisions and choices that affect everyday life.

 

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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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