Together with Shinobu Kitayama, Ethan Kross, and Richard Nisbett and I have been working on a question how people are able to think and act wisely, either by using cognitive strategies that facilitate resolution of social conflicts or by adaptively controlling emotions that undermine their goals and compromise their health. Hereby, my colleagues and I developed a novel research framework, which has been shown to produce reliable age differences and match experts’ opinions on the definition of wisdom. The goal of the current series of studies will be to experimentally manipulate several aspects of wisdom, specifically focusing on different mental strategies and social roles. We adopt an integrative approach spanning multiple levels of analysis to address this issue, and focus on a variety of participant populations.