International

Over the course of the summer-fall 2020 Dr. Grossmann asked over 50 of the world’s leading scholars in behavioral and social sciences, along with futurists and disaster/crisis management scholars to share their thoughts on what effects COVID-19 pandemic will have on our societies. The goal was to create a time capsule of scientists’ hopes and worries at this critical moment in human history. My team subsequently set up interviews on an interactive portal, guided by results of analyses of core themes and interrelationships of different themes brought up by scholars.

Newest lab research on the folk standards of sound judgment is scheduled to appear in Science Advances. Pre-print available here.

https://aeon.co/ideas/why-speaking-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-makes-you-wiser

POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Psychology

University of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

The Wisdom and Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo, directed by Igor Grossmann, is seeking applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, starting in Spring/Summer 2018. The postdoc is broken into two one year segments, with opportunity for renewal at one year mark assuming excellent performance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b083p88h

Harrison Oakes received the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship! Congratulations, Harrison!!!

Wisdom Research Network Interview with Dr. Grossmann on the current state of wisdom research

A new review paper published by Dr. Grossmann, together with Dr. Michael Ross and Dr. Emily Schryer find no evidence that older adults are actually more vulnerable to fraud. See more under publications.

New paper in Psychological Science [pdf]: People are wiser when reasoning about others than the reasoning about themselves, yet self-distance eliminated this asymmetry [link] @psywisdom #relations

The article "Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters,” [pdf] (Psych Science 2012)  won the 2013 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from the Society for Psychological Studies of Social Issues (SPSSI)!