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Development and validation of a multi-dimensional measure of intellectual humility

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  • Mark Alfano
  • Kathryn Iurino
  • Paul Stey
  • Brian Robinson
  • Markus Christen
  • Feng Yu
  • Daniel Lapsley

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This paper presents five studies on the development and validation of a scale of intellectual humility. This scale captures cognitive, affective, behavioral, and motivational components of the construct that have been identified by various philosophers in their conceptual analyses of intellectual humility. We find that intellectual humility has four core dimensions: Open-mindedness (versus Arrogance), Intellectual Modesty (versus Vanity), Corrigibility (versus Fragility), and Engagement (versus Boredom). These dimensions display adequate self-informant agreement, and adequate convergent, divergent, and discriminant validity. In particular, Open-mindedness adds predictive power beyond the Big Six for an objective behavioral measure of intellectual humility, and Intellectual Modesty is uniquely related to Narcissism. We find that a similar factor structure emerges in Germanophone participants, giving initial evidence for the model’s cross-cultural generalizability.

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  • Mark Alfano & Kathryn Iurino & Paul Stey & Brian Robinson & Markus Christen & Feng Yu & Daniel Lapsley, 2017. "Development and validation of a multi-dimensional measure of intellectual humility," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(8), pages 1-28, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0182950
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182950
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    1. Isler, Ozan & Gächter, Simon, 2022. "Conforming with peers in honesty and cooperation," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 195(C), pages 75-86.

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