Wisdom represents a fruitful topic for psychological investigations for at least two reasons.
First, the study of wisdom emphasizes the search for the continued optimization and the …

Interest in wisdom in the cognitive sciences, psychology, and education has been paralleled
by conceptual confusions about its nature and assessment. To clarify these issues and …

This article reviews the literature on the relationship between wisdom and aging. It opens
with a discussion of different approaches to defining what wisdom is. Philosophical, implicit …

This book is a scholarly overview of the modern concepts, definitions, and theories of
intellectual giftedness, and of past and current developments in the field of gifted education …

Psychological research on wisdom has flourished in the last 30 years, much of it
investigating laypeople's implicit theories of wisdom. In three studies, we took an exemplar …

Objectives. This study examined individual differences in laypeople's conceptions of wisdom
using a person-oriented approach, as previous studies using a priori group variables may …

98 NIC M. WESTSTRATE, SUSAN BLUCK, AND JUDITH GLüCK superstitious,“more
primitive” beliefs. We also avoid the term “implicit,” mostly for the sake of clarity, given that it …

Increasing age diversity in the workplace has led to growing research attention to the
knowledge transfer between older and younger employees. The existing literature on age …

The present study proposes to define wisdom as a real-life process which consists of three
core components—integration, embodiment, and positive effects. Two studies were …

Publisher Summary This examines the philosophical roots of psychological theories on
wisdom, and discusses recent developments in theorizing on wisdom. Attention is paid to …