Within the four seas, all men are brothers 1 Confucius A man begins his self-cultivation by serving his parents well and he cannot serve his parents well unless he knows the people, and one cannot know the people well unless he knows the way of Heaven 2 Confucius I Guanxi is a powerful concept: not only as a tool to grasp the essence of Chinese sociality but also as a sociological challenge. It...

OBJECTIVES The relationships between wisdom and age and between wisdom and mental health are complex with empirical results often inconsistent. We used a lifespan sample and broad, psychometrically sound measures of wisdom and mental health to test for possible age trends in wisdom and its subcomponents and the relationship between wisdom and hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of well-being. METH...

Purpose: Three levels of learning developed by Gregory Bateson in the tradition of second‐order cybernetics have in‐part been translated in terms of double‐loop and triple‐loop learning, particularly in the tradition of systems thinking. Learning III and triple‐loop learning have gained less popularity since they deal with less tangible issues regarding virtues of wisdom and justice respective...

The development of wisdom agriculture with agricultural found Chinese demand. The development of wisdom agriculture has the characteristics of integrity, functional and systematic. The article analyzes the main issues and influencing factors according to the current wisdom agriculture in China, such as the gap between domestic and abroad, wisdom, the wisdom agriculture rural development e-gover...

Surgical removal of impacted third molars is one of the most frequent procedures in oral surgery. Here, three-dimensional (3D) imaging is often used, yet its necessity is still being heavily debated. The aim of the study was to describe the variation in the anatomical positioning of third mandibular molars, and, by doing so, examine the necessity of 3D imaging. A retrospective case study was pe...

Wisdom represents a fruitful topic for psychological investigations for at least two reasons. First, the study of wisdom emphasizes the search for the continued optimization and the further cultural evolution of the human condition. Second, it exemplifies the collaboration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes. The growth and scope of psychological wisdom research over the past fe...

Background and Objectives: Patience and wisdom are highly respected moral virtues in Islamic culture. The former (patience) is of utmost importance in the Islamic religion and the latter (wisdom) is one of the six basic virtues both in the recent classification of positive psychologists and Islamic-Iranian culture. These moral virtues are considered important in individuals’ wellbeing and can h...