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 ...

Early in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's science fiction blockbuster "Project Hail Mary," middle school teacher Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, is tasked by an international coalition to ...

In my last post, I discussed the principle of intellectual charity as an essential element of constructive political conversations. As a companion to the principle of charity, we also need to ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. There are a lot of reasons behind the political polarization of the country and the deterioration of civic discourse. I ...

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 ...

Many moons ago, I wrote an “infamous” paper, “Modest Systems Psychology: A Neutral Complement to Positive Psychological Thinking.” I call it infamous because, at the time, it was a tough “take-down” ...

IN today’s dynamic and fast-paced work environments, intellectual humility is becoming one of the crucial skills for developing innovation, collaboration and overall success for teams. Aside from the ...

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 ...

In July 2022, the GGSC announced the 19 winners of our grants to support the production of innovative nonfiction stories on intellectual humility. In addition to financial support, offered in ...