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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect : Children s and adults perceptions of intellectually arrogant, humble, and diffident people
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Intellectual humility is usually regarded as a virtue. In this paper we conceptualized intellectual
humility along 2 dimensions: (1) placing an adequate level of confidence in one’s own beliefs;
(2) being willing to consider other people’s beliefs. We tested whether children (ages 4-11 years)
and adults perceived intellectual humility as positive and how these perceptions changed across
the development. To do so, we asked participants to evaluate an intellectually humble person as
compared to an intellectually arrogant person, who readily dismissed other people’s beliefs, or to
an intellectually diffident person, who was unsure of a well-supported belief. Young children did
not favor the intellectually humble person over the others, but older children and adults liked this
person better and tended to consider her nicer than the arrogant one and smarter than the
diffident one. These findings suggest that the virtuousness of intellectual humility in others is
recognized from mid-childhood on.
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Intellectual humility Humility Arrogance Diffidence Social perceptions Person perception Personality impressions Social cognitive development Children’s perceptions
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Hagá, S., & Olson, K. R. (2017). ‘If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect’: Children’s and adults’ perceptions of intellectually arrogant, humble, and diffident people. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 12(1), 87-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2016.1167943
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Taylor & Francis