The Greater Good Science Center’s three-year Intellectual Humility Project aimed to raise awareness of research on intellectual humility and its implications. As part of that, we supported 19 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) With unlimited information at our fingertips and dozens of platforms on which to share our opinions, it can sometimes feel like we’re supposed to be experts in everything. It can be ...

Jinho Ferreira I grew up there in Oakland, in Berkeley during the crack epidemic. I didn’t know the names of any cops. They were just people that drove up and down the street and arrested people. My ...

Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like.” This quote pithily underscores the human tendency to desire growth while also harboring strong resistance to the ...

Since the nation’s earliest days, Americans have seen a role for schools in securing a stable democracy and cohesive society. However, for almost as long as we’ve agreed that schools should serve ...

According to Fedrick, “Intellectual humility is the understanding and acceptance that not everything you believe to be true is an absolute truth. It is the ability and willingness to allow your ...

I answered this question along with a few others for Character Lab in a Tip of the Week: What is intellectual humility—and how is it different from just plain humility? Intellectual humility is about ...

During Jeff Bezos’s tenure as CEO of Amazon, what was the No. 1 quality he looked for when hiring people? Hard work and past accomplishments certainly mattered. But when the then-Amazon boss spoke at ...