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Existential Psychology 2027 SPSP Preconference in Philadelphia PA on Feb 11.
Submit by Oct 8, Register by Jan 29!
Speaker theme: Awe, Growth, & the Good Life.
Keynotes, Research Talks, Data Blitzes, Posters, Awards!
Visit issep.org/conference for info, submission, registration
Michael Prinzing retweeted
“There has been tons of research on how intellectual humility might help people to think better...but there has been almost none on how intellectual humility might impact a person’s well-being.”
#WFU research scholar Michael Prinzing on exploring virtue ethics & mental health. 🧠✨
psypost.org/two-forms-of-int…
People are really excited about the benefits of intellectual humility. But, even if IH leads to good thinking, is it good *for* you? After all, an inflated sense of self feels good! It turns out that the answer may depend on what precisely "intellectual humility" refers to.
It turns out that the latter is consistently associated with better well-being (cross-sectionally, within and between persons, and in longitudinal changes over 2 years), whereas the latter is not. In fact, it's actually associated with *worse* well-being.
My coauthors and I argue that this highlights the importance of the distinction between these two forms of IH and has important implications for its status as an intellectual virtue as well as for efforts to encourage people to cultivate IH.
doi.org/10.1177/014616722614…
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Something big is happening at @WakeForest, and at colleges and universities across the country.
![“Wake Forest decided to put character formation at the center of its mission about a decade ago. Since 2020, it has trained 140 faculty across various departments on how to do character education, and 160 faculty [and staff] on how to think about their own moral growth. The university also formed the Educating Character Initiative, which has so far dispersed more than $35 million impacting 146 institutions that are developing their own programs.”
The Atlantic’s David Brooks in his May 17 article: “Something Big is Happening on Campus”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIsstyKXEAANGCL.jpg?name=orig)
ALT “Wake Forest decided to put character formation at the center of its mission about a decade ago. Since 2020, it has trained 140 faculty across various departments on how to do character education, and 160 faculty [and staff] on how to think about their own moral growth. The university also formed the Educating Character Initiative, which has so far dispersed more than $35 million impacting 146 institutions that are developing their own programs.” The Atlantic’s David Brooks in his May 17 article: “Something Big is Happening on Campus”
Lots of people think philosophy is an "armchair" discipline in which empirical evidence is largely irrelevant. But, humorously, this idea is contradicted by the empirical data. Looking at records from prestigous, generalist philosophy journals, I found something striking.
The paper (forthcoming in Synthese) is available on PhilPapers!
philpapers.org/rec/PRITRO-23
The official version is now up on the journal's website: doi.org/10.1007/s11229-026-0…
One of these roles is on the Research Team for the Educating Character Initiative! We're looking for someone with empirical expertise who wants to write papers with me about character development!
🚀 We're hiring @character_wfu @WakeForest! With funds from a new grant to build communities of impact around character in higher education, we're searching for several administrative and research positions. The link is below!
leadershipandcharacter.wfu.e…
Michael Prinzing retweeted
Opinion | The Real ‘Diploma Divide’ Is About Identity, Not Beliefs
The familiar narrative that colleges are fueling a growing divide in political beliefs is not backed up by the data. But something else consequential has changed. bit.ly/4rWo4E2
ALT A blue chess pawn and a red pawn, each mounted on a wooden block, face one another.
Intuitively, it seems like bringing people together to discuss complex ethical and political issues should help them to be more intellectually humble about those issues—at least if the conversations are rigorous yet respectful. But, empirically, doesn't seem to work that way.
Michael Vazquez and I tested this "collaborative dialogue hypothesis." But the results of quasi-experiments and a randomized experiment (and using self-reports, behavioral indicators, and text-analytic measures) consistently contradicted the hypothesis.
We think these results, now published in American Psychologist, highlight a need for more theorizing and tests of popular claims about how to cultivate this much-needed trait.
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/…
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Dr Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing presented our latest seminar in the McGill - UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar series (2026 March 4): "The Ordinary Concept of a Good Life".
youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzkLen0…
For our full series, see wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca…
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Our next CHERN McGill-UofT seminar will be by Prof Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing, on "The Ordinary Concept of a Good Life".
Past seminars, and link to registration:
wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca…
Due to my poor calendaring, CWKN is hosting a webinar at the same time!
Check out this article on The Conversation! It offers a general audience summary some of my recent work with @DrSchnitker and @kk_melton on virtue and it's relationship with well-being.
theconversation.com/is-being…
