Situation-Based Contingencies Underlying Wisdom-Content Manifestations: Examining Intellectual Humility in Daily Life

Situation-based contingencies underlying trait-content manifestation in behavior.

Two studies investigated whether situations are associated with the manifestation of Big Five trait contents in behavior. Several times per day for 2 or 5 weeks, participants reported their current Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability states and rated the concurrent situation on several characteristics. Multilevel models tested for the average individual's con...

The Wisdom to Know the Difference: Strategy-Situation Fit in Emotion Regulation in Daily Life Is Associated With Well-Being

The ability to regulate emotions is central to well-being, but healthy emotion regulation may not merely be about using the “right” strategies. According to the strategy-situation-fit hypothesis, emotion-regulation strategies are conducive to well-being only when used in appropriate contexts. This study is the first to test the strategy-situation-fit hypothesis using ecological momentary assess...

The Semantic Space of Intellectual Humility

Intellectual humility is an interesting but underexplored disposition. The claim “I am (intellectually) humble” seems paradoxical in that someone who has the disposition in question would not typically volunteer it. There is an explanatory gap between the meaning of the sentence and the meaning the speaker expresses by uttering it. We therefore suggest analyzing intellectual humility semantical...

Cultural Differences in Communication: Examining Patterns of Daily Life

Net Premiums in Stochastic Life Contingencies

A fundamental problem in actuarial science is the determination of the level of a premium payment plan necessary to meet future contingent obligations. In the modern stochastic version of life contingencies, this net level is determined by the principle that expected value of a certain loss random variable is set equal to zero. This principle is desirable in that it yields the same net premium ...