Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate
Intellectual humility, which entails openness to other views and a willingness to listen and engage with them, is crucial for facilitating civil dialogue and progress in debate between opposing sides. In the present research, we tested whether intellectual humility can be reliably detected in discou...
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| author | Paul H. P. Hanel Deborah Roy Samuel Taylor Michael Franjieh Chris Heffer Alessandra Tanesini Gregory R. Maio |
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| description | Intellectual humility, which entails openness to other views and a willingness to listen and engage with them, is crucial for facilitating civil dialogue and progress in debate between opposing sides. In the present research, we tested whether intellectual humility can be reliably detected in discourse and experimentally increased by a prior self-affirmation task. Three hundred and three participants took part in 116 audio- and video-recorded group discussions. Blind to condition, linguists coded participants' discourse to create an intellectual humility score. As expected, the self-affirmation task increased the coded intellectual humility, as well as participants’ self-rated prosocial affect (e.g. empathy). Unexpectedly, the effect on prosocial affect did not mediate the link between experimental condition and intellectual humility in debate. Self-reported intellectual humility and other personality variables were uncorrelated with expert-coded intellectual humility. Implications of these findings for understanding the social psychological mechanisms underpinning intellectual humility are considered. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f92e316e75ea4264958946293acc127a2023-03-28T08:51:00ZengThe Royal SocietyRoyal Society Open Science2054-57032023-02-0110210.1098/rsos.220958Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debatePaul H. P. Hanel0Deborah Roy1Samuel Taylor2Michael Franjieh3Chris Heffer4Alessandra Tanesini5Gregory R. Maio6Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester Campus, CO4 3SQ Colchester, UKDepartment of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UKDepartment of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UKFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Surrey, Guilford, UKSchool of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UKSchool of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UKDepartment of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UKIntellectual humility, which entails openness to other views and a willingness to listen and engage with them, is crucial for facilitating civil dialogue and progress in debate between opposing sides. In the present research, we tested whether intellectual humility can be reliably detected in discourse and experimentally increased by a prior self-affirmation task. Three hundred and three participants took part in 116 audio- and video-recorded group discussions. Blind to condition, linguists coded participants' discourse to create an intellectual humility score. As expected, the self-affirmation task increased the coded intellectual humility, as well as participants’ self-rated prosocial affect (e.g. empathy). Unexpectedly, the effect on prosocial affect did not mediate the link between experimental condition and intellectual humility in debate. Self-reported intellectual humility and other personality variables were uncorrelated with expert-coded intellectual humility. Implications of these findings for understanding the social psychological mechanisms underpinning intellectual humility are considered.https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.220958intellectual humilitydebatevalue affirmationemotions |
| spellingShingle | Paul H. P. Hanel Deborah Roy Samuel Taylor Michael Franjieh Chris Heffer Alessandra Tanesini Gregory R. Maio Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate Royal Society Open Science intellectual humility debate value affirmation emotions |
| title | Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate |
| title_full | Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate |
| title_fullStr | Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate |
| title_short | Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate |
| title_sort | using self affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate |
| topic | intellectual humility debate value affirmation emotions |
| url | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.220958 |
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