There has been an increasing awareness of the importance of leadership and decision making, including scientists and academics, over recent times. By whom and how decisions are made can have serious implications across all levels of society. Several people have been successful in their life and have been inflicted by excessive pride and self-confidence. There are times when the manifestations o...

This paper examines politicians’ publicly displayed emotional responses to the sex affair and resignation of a Member European Parliament, József Szájer, from Fidesz, Hungary’s one ruling party. The results qualitative analysis indicate that politicians various combinations self-conscious moral emotions: shame, guilt, pride, hubris. Inspired by MOSS-SASD model shame compass concept, research de...

This article is about how hubris, individually and collectively, has contributed to the climate emergency an environmental ethic of humility could play ameliorating role in crisis. It focuses on relationship between virtue ethics natural environment, it argues that a collective “human hubris” (“The Problem”) significantly anthropogenic change “humility-based approach” toward environment entails...

Editor’s Note: Members of the Journal of Palliative Medicine editorial board include individuals with immense insight, experience and knowledge concerning care near the end of life. As such, I have invited editorial board members to contribute their thoughts to the “Notes from the Editor” column. Over the coming year different board members will share their thoughts on a particular topic of rel...

Epistemic hubris—the expression of unwarranted factual certitude—is a conspicuous yet understudied democratic hazard. Here, in two nationally representative studies, we examine its features and analyze variance. We hypothesize, find, that epistemic hubris is (a) prevalent, (b) bipartisan, (c) associated with both intellectualism (an identity marked by ruminative habits learning for own sake) an...