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WaC Research Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung!

Wisdom and Culture Lab research was recently featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung, highlighting international findings showing that, from villages in Ecuador to government offices in Berlin, people facing tough decisions prefer to trust their inner voice—challenging the notion that this tendency…

WaC Research Featured in Haaretz!

Wisdom and Culture lab research featured in a recent article in Haaretz on new cross-cultural research revealing that, across both traditional and collectivist societies as well as modern and individualistic ones, people tend to prefer trusting their own judgment over following others’ advice.

WJC Welcomes Two New Postdoctoral Fellows

We are excited to announce that two outstanding postdoctoral researchers will be joining the Wise Judgment Consortium this fall. Yisheng Li will join us in September as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Language Processing. He is currently completing his PhD…

New Publication in European Review of Social Psychology

A study led by Igor Grossmann and colleagues highlights that core aspects of wisdom—such as intellectual humility, open-mindedness, and perspective-taking—change over time in response to life experiences. Reviewing dominant theories and empirical practices, the authors emphasize the need for social…

New Publication in Nature Communications

Across different cultures and countries, people perceive the wisest people to be logical and reflective as well as able to consider other people’s feelings and perceptions, a study led by Maksim Rudnev and Igor Grossmann of the University of Waterloo…