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34 - Why Is Wisdom Such an Obscure Field of Inquiry and What Can and Should Be Done About It?

from Part VIII - Conclusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2019

By
Robert J. Sternberg  and
Judith Glück
Edited by
Robert J. Sternberg  and
Judith Glück
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Judith Glück
Affiliation:
Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
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Summary

In this chapter, we discuss why, after so many years of research, wisdom remains a somewhat obscure field of study within psychology. Some examples of reasons are that some people believe the study of wisdom is best left to philosophers, some scholars believe that wisdom is so culturally relative that it is unclear whether it really can be pinned down in any universally meaningful way, some scholars believe that wisdom is hard to measure, and wisdom is harder to study and publish about than many other psychological construct.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom , pp. 783 - 796
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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