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Postdoctoral Position for Spring/Summer 2018
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.
BBC Radio 4: All in the Mind show features work on wisdom
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b083p88h
Vanier Scholarship for Harrison Oakes
Harrison Oakes received the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship! Congratulations, Harrison!!!
Contrary to common beliefs, older adults aren’t necessarily besieged by fraud
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.
Solomon's Paradox - A New Discovery
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
Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award!
Research Awards!
This summer started with a few awards for research in the Wisdom & Culture lab. Initial research on wise reasoning received the 2013 Association of American Psychology Dissertation Award (Div 20: Psychology & Aging).
Alex Huynh received the 2013 Brendan Gail Rule Award from the Canadian Psychological Association.
Congratulations!!!
In the news: Wisdom, culture, well-being
Recent Publications [English]
Grossmann, I., Na, J., Varnum, M. E. W., Kitayama, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (in press). A Route to Well-being: Intelligence vs. Wise Reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. pdf