OBJECTIVES This study examined individual differences in laypeople's conceptions of wisdom using a person-oriented approach, as previous studies using a priori group variables may have underestimated the variability. Although there is a tradition of examining people's implicit theories of wisdom, this study is the first to also investigate their views of how wisdom develops. METHODS A total o...

Abstract:About whether Islamic philosophy can play a role in the production of humanities? There is a continuum of ideas that, on the one hand, are ideas that have neglected the role of Islamic philosophy in general. And on the other hand, there are ideas that incor-porate the teachings of Islamic philosophy into paradigmatic elements for the produc-tion of a new type of human science. In...

Teaching From Country (TFC) took as one of its primary tasks the following challenge: “What is a helpful conceptual framing of issues involved in our work that is valid in Yolŋu terms and supports translation into academic contexts?” This paper explores one dimension of this: how can Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) be “translated” so as to better prepare dominant culture environmental sci...

Wisdom sits atop the knowledge pyramid in the Information Systems (IS) literature. Yet there has been little research on wisdom in the IS field despite the need to transform knowledge to wisdom. Perhaps there is no other subject central to human existence whose exploration holds so much promise as wisdom to help address myriad crises affecting the world. Wisdom is intricately connected to many ...

Wisdom is a field of growing interest both inside and outside academic psychology, and researchers are increasingly interested in using measures of wisdom in their work. However, wisdom is a highly complex construct, and its various operationalizations are based on quite different definitions. Which measure a researcher chooses for a particular research project may have a strong influence on th...

Objective Measurement of Wisdom within a short period of time is vital for both the public interest (e.g., understanding a presidential election) and research (e.g., testing factors that facilitate wisdom development). A measurement of emotion associated with wisdom would be especially informative; therefore, a novel Thin-Slice measurement of wisdom was developed based on the Berlin Paradigm. F...

Nurses seek to understand better what practicing with wisdom means and how to apply wisdom to practice; however, the experience of wisdom in nursing has not been well defined or researched. This study was designed to understand how emergency department (ED) nurses construct the meaning of wisdom within the culture of clinical nursing practice. Using Charmaz's constructivist grounded theory meth...

Wisdom is derived (in modern language terms) from the Old English words wis ("of a certainty, for certain"; "Wisdom," 2015) and dóm ("statute, judgment, jurisdiction"; "Wisdom," 2015); wisdom is, at its broadest, defined as the "Capacity of judging rightly in matters relating to life and conduct; soundness of judgement in the choice of means and ends; sometimes less strictly, sound sense, esp. ...