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    On Wisdom

    What does it actually take to think wisely? On Wisdom digs into the empirical science of wisdom, judgment, and decision-making, and what it means for how we live. Igor Grossmann runs the Wisdom & Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo. Charles Cassidy runs the Evidence-Based Wisdom project in London. Each episode pairs freewheeling conversation with guest spots from leading behavioural scientists working on reasoning, wellbeing, culture, and society. Past guests include Adam Grant, Jonathan Haidt, Paul Bloom, Shannon Vallor, Lisa Barrett, David Dunning, Mara Mather, Tom Gilovich, Laura Carstensen, Oliver Burkeman, Simine Vazire, Dacher Keltner, and more. This autumn: a five-episode special series built around the first Annual Review of Psychology chapter on wisdom since 2011, featuring fifteen scholars on narrative, metacognition, measurement, training, and the neuroscience of wise decisions.

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    Episode 3: On Death (with Laura Blackie) Apr 25, 2018
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    Why do we avoid thinking about our own death? How does contemplating our own mortality change our day-to-day behaviour? Why do drivers, when reminded of the fact that they will die, actually drive even faster? Whilst society typically hides death from us, might certain death reflection scenarios actually lead to the development of wisdom? Laura Blackie has considered these and many related questions, and joins Igor and Charles to discuss Terror Management Theory, Death Reflection, and the potential upsides of contemplating our own demise. Igor dismisses a death clock which tells him he won't live as long as Charles, Laura outlines the possible prosocial benefits of imagining a painful and horrible death, and Charles admits to spending too much time thinking about whether his funeral will be well attended. Welcome to Episode 3.

    Special Guest: Laura Blackie.

    Links:

    • Laura Blackie - The University of Nottingham
    • The Death Clock: Calculate your life expectancy today
    • The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development | Science
    • Terror Management Theory - Greenberg & Arndt
    • Specific and Individuated Death Reflection Fosters Identity Integration
    • Greed, death, and values: from terror management to transcendence management theory. - PubMed - NCBI
    • Self-affirmation and mortality salience: affirming values reduces worldview defense and death-thought accessibility. - PubMed - NCBI
    Episode 2: The Paradox of Ageing Apr 22, 2018
    Show notes

    Does wisdom really come with age? Or is this an outdated myth from a bygone era? How might wisdom develop in a brain that's ageing? Or perhaps by 'age', are we really talking about 'experience'? If so, do all experiences lead to wisdom, or only bad ones? If old people can be foolish, can young people ever be wise? And how on earth do you even gather reliable evidence across generations? Igor brings sad news of declining brain function to anyone over 25 and cautions against seeking out traumatic experiences as a strategy for developing wisdom, whilst Charles is forced to rethink his whole position on Jude Law. Welcome to Episode 2.

    Links:

    • The Science of Older and Wiser - The New York Times - Vivian Clayton
    • Older and Wiser? Integrating Results on the Relationship between Age and Wisdom-related Performance: International Journal of Behavioral Development: Vol 23, No 3
    • Erikson, in His Own Old Age, Expands His View of Life
    • The Fascination of Wisdom: Its Nature, Ontogeny, and Function - Paul B. Baltes, Jacqui Smith, 2008
    • Wisdom in Context - Igor Grossmann, 2017
    • Perceived Control Over Aging-Related Declines: Adaptive Beliefs and Behaviors - Margie E. Lachman, 2006
    • THE MYTH OF THE AGED SAGE: Does older really mean wiser? « evidence-based wisdom
    • Older & Wiser « evidence-based wisdom - Infographic
    Episode 1: Wisdom vs Intelligence Apr 20, 2018
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    What's the difference between someone who's smart and someone who's wise? If you can you be intelligent without being wise, can you be wise without also being intelligent? If wisdom's so essential for taking good decisions, what's driving our exclusive obsession with intelligence? And which is really more helpful in our daily lives? Igor describes some surprising fighter-plane-based scenarios when wisdom is as useless as intelligence and Charles explains how open-ended questioning in the classroom comes with its own unique set of risks. Welcome to Episode 1 of the On Wisdom podcast.

    Links:

    • Wisdom and Intelligence: The Nature and Function of Knowledge in the Later Years - Vivian Clayton, 1983
    • Herbert Simon | The Economist
    • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Wikipedia
    • J. Intell. | Free Full-Text | The Strengths of Wisdom Provide Unique Contributions to Improved Leadership, Sustainability, Inequality, Gross National Happiness, and Civic Discourse in the Face of Contemporary World Problems
    • A model of educational leadership: Wisdom, intelligence, and creativity, synthesized: International Journal of Leadership in Education: Vol 8, No 4
    • A route to well-being: intelligence versus wise reasoning. - PubMed - NCBI
    • g factor (psychometrics) - Wikipedia
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