Toward an understanding of collective intellectual humility

Krumrei-Mancuso, Elizabeth, Pärnamets, Philip, Bland, Steven, Astola, Mandi, Cichocka, Aleksandra, de Ridder, Jeroen, Mercier, Hugo, Meyer, Marco, O'Connor, Cailin, Porter, Tenelle, Tanesini, Alessandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-471X, Alfano, Mark and Van Bavel, Jay 2025. Toward an understanding of collective intellectual humility. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 29 (1) , pp. 15-27. 10.1016/j.tics.2024.09.006

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Abstract

The study of intellectual humility (IH), which is gaining increasing interest among cognitive scientists, has been dominated by a focus on individuals. We propose that IH operates at the collective level as the tendency of a collective’s members to attend to each other’s intellectual limitations and the limitations of their collective cognitive efforts. Given people’s propensity to better recognize others’ limitations than their own, IH may be more readily achievable in collectives than individuals. We describe the socio-cognitive dynamics that can interfere with collective IH and offer the solution of building intellectually humbling environments that create a culture of IH that can outlast the given membership of a collective. We conclude with promising research directions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	Cell Press
ISSN:	1364-6613
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 October 2024
Date of Acceptance:	11 September 2024
Last Modified:	15 Jan 2025 14:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172319

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