Wisdom

The Psychology of Wise Thoughts, Words, and Deeds

Robert J. Sternberg, Judith Glück (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-84156-6 (ISBN)

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Wisdom is the deployment of intelligence and knowledge to serve a common good, over the long term as well as the short term. We need it now, more than ever, to solve the world's problems. This book explains what it is, how to acquire it, and how to use it.

The world is simultaneously facing many crises that humanity is failing to solve. Yet, at the same time, humans are smarter (with IQs on average thirty points higher than a century ago) and more knowledgeable (with the world's knowledge base at our fingertips), and scientific advances are accelerating. However, intelligence and knowledge are not enough: wisdom harnesses these strengths to serve the common good. Education is focused on acquiring knowledge, but schools would do better also to teach and test for the development of wisdom. To a lot of people, wisdom is an abstraction, but there is a growing body of scientific research into what wisdom is and how it works. This introduction sets out why wisdom is so important. Drawing on insights from psychology, philosophy, science, and common sense, this book provides a complete account of wisdom and how we can develop it throughout our lives.

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, USA, and Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He won the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the James McKeen Cattell and William James Awards of the Association for Psychological Science. Judith Glück is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her research investigates what wisdom is, how it develops, how it can best be measured, and how it is influenced by situations and other people.

1. What is wisdom?; 2. Why is wisdom important and why doesn't society always see it that way?; 3. How has wisdom been studied in psychology?; 4. How is wisdom measured?; 5. How does wisdom develop?; 6. How do we cultivate wisdom?; 7. How is wisdom related to other psychological characteristics?; 8. Am I wise?; Epilogue; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2021
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	330 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	1-108-84156-2 / 1108841562
ISBN-13	978-1-108-84156-6 / 9781108841566
Zustand	Neuware