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. ...

This study explores the various relations between two important processes in life-span development: wisdom and learning from significant life experience. A diverse sample of 375 individuals from Taiwan, culled from an initial sample of 475, completed a sequence of three questionnaires that asked them to describe their most significant life learning, the wisdom they had displayed, and the relati...

OBJECTIVES Contrary to lay theories, past work does not suggest robust age differences in wisdom-related knowledge across the adult life span. This study investigated a potential moderator of age differences in wisdom-related knowledge: The age relevance of a given wisdom task. METHOD To test this moderator, 192 participants covering the adult life span were asked to think aloud about a tradi...

Friedman’s (1981, 1983) transpersonal cartography of self-expansiveness places the individual self-concept in a central position at the intersection of temporal and spatial dimensions. This map can be inverted, however, by placing transcendent consciousness in the center, creating a new cartography that is equally viable. Juxtaposing the original version (depicting the individual self as emergi...

Paul B. Baltes and his colleagues, who are among the most prominent contemporary wisdom researchers, define wisdom as ‘expert knowledge in the domain fundamental pragmatics of life.’ By contrast, this article argues that the definition, operationalization, and measurement of wisdom should not be reduced to expertise and that the term wisdom should be reserved for wise persons rather than expert...

Purpose This conceptual paper aims to contribute the knowledge management (KM) literature by seeking determine whether wisdom (WM) will replace KM in future. Design/methodology/approach exploratory follows interpretivist research philosophy and deductive approach. The data collection is based on selected literatures from three disciplines (KM, psychology). findings were qualitatively analysed. ...

How have anthropologists related to extraordinary or supernatural phenomena (the transcendent) in disciplinary definitions of religion and the practice social analysis? This text argues that ...