Welcome to the Defining Wisdom Research Network
The Arete Initiative at The University of Chicago has launched a $2 million research
program on the nature and benefits of wisdom. Once regarded as a subject worthy
of the most rigorous inquiries in order to discern its nature and benefits, wisdom
is currently overlooked as a topic for serious scholarly and scientific investigation
in many fields. Yet it is difficult to imagine a subject more central to the human
enterprise and whose exploration holds greater promise in shedding light and opening
up creative possibilities for human flourishing.
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Never mind what people believe—how can we change what they do?
This article explores the ways in which behavioral psychology can help policymakers and advocates for energy efficiency.
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Automatic Evaluation
The authors discuss the way in which humans evaluate the
people, objects and places that surround them in an automatic fashion.
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Keyboards, Codes and the Search for Optimality
In biology, as in technology, we should not confuse persistence with perfection.
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The Process of Personal Change Through Reading Fictional Narratives
This qualitative study provides an understanding of how and when
individuals experience transformational change as a consequence of
reading narratives.
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