The Psychology of Wisdom
An Introduction
Published on 9. June 2022
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-316-51463-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Psychology of Wisdom: An Introduction is the first comprehensive coursebook on wisdom, providing an engaging, balanced, and expert introduction to the psychology of wisdom. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the psychological science of wisdom, covering wide-ranging perspectives. Each chapter includes extensive pedagogy, including a summary, a glossary, bolded terms, practical applications, discussion questions, and a brief description of the authors' research. Topics include the philosophical foundations, folk conceptions, and psychological theories of wisdom; relations of wisdom to morality and ethics, to personality and well-being, to emotion; wisdom and leadership, wisdom and social policy. These topics are covered in a non-technical, bias-free, and student-friendly manner. Written by the most eminent experts in the field, this is the definitive coursebook for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as interested professionals and researchers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
741 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-316-51463-4 (9781316514634)
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Content
Part I. Introduction to Wisdom Theory and Research: 1. Introduction: What is wisdom and why is it important? Robert J. Sternberg and Judith Glueck; 2. Philosophical foundations for the study of wisdom Jason D. Swartwood; 3. Folk conceptions of wisdom around the world Nic M. Weststrate; 4. Psychological theories of wisdom Robert J. Sternberg, Judith Glueck and Sareh Karami; 5. Wisdom: Situational, Dispositional, or Both? Igor Grossmann; 6. Measurement of wisdom Judith Glueck; Part II. Foundations of Wisdom in the Individual and in the World: 7. Wisdom, intelligence, and creativity Dowon Choi, Sarah F. Lynch, and James C. Kaufman; 8. Wisdom, morality, and ethics Judith Glueck and Robert J. Sternberg; 9. Wisdom, personality, and well-being Monika Ardelt and Stephen Pridgen; 10. Wisdom and Emotion Ute Kunzmann; Part III. The Modifiability of Wisdom: 11. The development of wisdom Judith Glueck; 12. Interventions for developing wisdom Michel Ferrari, Juensung Kim and Stephanie Morris; Part IV. Wisdom in the World : 13. Wisdom in the professions Barry Schwartz and Kenneth E. Sharpe; 14. Wisdom development and practice in leadership David Rooney and Bernard McKenna; 15. Injecting wisdom into social policy so we can deal with gigantic problems in the World Don Ambrose.