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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Opportunities for free play and young children’s autonomic regulation
by Tracy R. Gleason, Mary S. Tarsha, Angela M. Kurth, & Darcia Narvaez
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What we would (but shouldn't) do for those we love: Universalism versus partiality in responding to others' moral transgressions
by Laura K. Soter, Martha K. Berg, Susan A. Gelman, & Ethan Kross
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Evidence and theory for lower rates of depression in larger US urban areas
by Andrew J. Stier, Kathryn E. Schertz, Nak Won Rim, Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez, Benjamin B. Lahey, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, & Marc G. Berman
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Practical wisdom: How do personal virtue beliefs and contextual factors interact in adolescents’ moral decision-making?
by Claire Briggs & David Lumson
