Abstract
How stable vs. dynamic is wisdom in daily life? We conducted a daily diary study of wise reasoning (WR) by recording people’s reflections on daily challenges in terms of three facets: intellectual humility, self-transcendence, and consideration of others’ perspectives/compromise. We observed substantial and systematic intraindividual variability in WR, with wiser reasoning in the social versus nonsocial contexts. State-level WR variability was potent in predicting a bigger-picture construal of the event, more positive (vs. negative) emotions, greater emotional complexity, lower emotional reactivity, less thought suppression, and more reappraisal and forgiveness. In contrast, on the trait level, we observed only a few associations to emotional complexity and reappraisal. We discuss implications for conceptualization and measurement of wisdom-related thought.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 611-622 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Social Psychological and Personality Science |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 7 |
Early online date | 03 Jun 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01 Sept 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.
Keywords
- emotion regulation
- forgiveness
- reasoning
- state vs. trait
- wisdom
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
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