Humility is a relative newcomer to social and personality psychology, at least as a trait or behavior to be studied on its own. More recently, humility has found a foothold in the most widely used measure of personality traits, the five- factor questionnaire. In another , ongoing study, Dr. Krumrei Mancuso had 587 American adults complete questionnaires intended to measure levels of intellectual humility. “These kinds of findings may account for the fact that people high in intellectual humility are not easily manipulated with regard to their views,” Dr. Krumrei Mancuso said. The findings, she added, may also “help us understand how humility can be associated with holding convictions.”

Source: New York Times October 21, 2019 09:00 UTC