Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social

Wisdom decoder & cultural voyager🧭 | @uwaterloo Prof | @OnWisdomPodcast co-host | Forecasting Collaborative founder | 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

9/9

I’m super proud of what our international team accomplished. I hope the paper will be useful to colleagues studying #personality, #culture, #metacognition, and #conflict.

Paper: https://t.co/uRr3Ad3klT

Data, materials & code: https://t.co/LlN9Vwf67j

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

1/9

How much does wise reasoning depend on the situation? And can we study it in a similar way across cultures?

Our new paper in Journal of Personality explores these questions across 12 countries.

https://t.co/uRr3Ad3klT

#CrossCulturalPsychology #SocialPsychology

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

8/9

Between-region differences accounted for a relatively small share of item-level variation in Study 2. Of course, this doesn’t mean culture doesn’t matter! But it does make RANKING of “wise cultures” VERY HARD TO DEFEND.

@cogsci_soc @easpinfo

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

Students use Canadian AI to learn at university — by teaching it https://t.co/Us8rG9LzKy A little feature on Crystalis - flipping the concept of teaching to have students teach a naive bot - i have had an honour to help shepherd along at University of Waterloo.

[UW Wisdom And Culture Lab @WisdomAndCultu1]

Did you know the UW Wisdom and Culture Lab has a podcast?

@onwisdompodcast explores the empirical science of wisdom, judgment, and decision-making, and what it means for how we live.

It's hosted by Igor Grossmann @psywisdom and Charles Cassidy ( @EBasedwisdom )

Links: ⬇️

[On Wisdom @onwisdompodcast]

Can wisdom live beyond the individual, in the organizations we build, and the technologies we create?

The series arrives at a final question: if we can build machines that are increasingly intelligent, what would it mean to make them wise?

Hosted by @EBasedwisdom and @psywisdom

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

4/ Episode w/ Dilip Jeste, @BarrySch & @brienza_p: from the neuroscience of wisdom → what kills judgment at work → can AI labs keep their missions?
📝 https://t.co/8dntG87UkS
🎧 https://t.co/6b3kMJv2di

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

3/ Aviation doesn’t rely on wise pilots alone. It has no-blame incident reporting, checklists, and crew resource management.

Pilots rarely learn from crashing. Yet, the system learns from near-misses on their behalf.

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

2/ Government nudge units: 1.4-point effects across 23M people (vs 8.7 in journals).

Cheap, sure! But in one study, merely hearing about a green nudge lowered support for a carbon tax. Small fixes can crowd out big ones.

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

1/ I asked leading behavioral scientists how to make communities wiser.

They kept telling me how to fix individuals.

New essay on “trickle-up wisdom,” plus the finale of our On Wisdom series 🧵

[On Wisdom @onwisdompodcast]

Episode 4 of On Wisdom's special series is now available! This week: Interventions and Training with Judith Glück, @ethan_kross, and Kristján Kristjánsson.

Can we actually learn to be wiser? What it takes to develop better judgment?

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/XdtjnZdwcA

[On Wisdom @onwisdompodcast]

And why getting older or going through difficult experiences doesn't necessarily make us wiser.

Hosted by @psywisdom and @EBasedwisdom

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

Listen to the full conversation with Charles Cassidy, Judith Glück, Ethan Kross, and Kristján Kristjánsson: 🎧 Podcast: https://t.co/MlIuZ2vkog📖 Essay & full transcript: https://t.co/unywsnCZpS

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

I’ve studied wisdom for 20 years. I still lose arguments, maximize over impossible choices, & get hijacked by my own emotions. Why is wisdom so easy when it’s someone else’s problem, and so hard when it’s our own? New essay + On Wisdom Ep. 72 out now. 🧵👇 https://t.co/unywsnCrAk

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

Finally, Kristján Kristjánsson bridges psychology and Aristotelian phronesis (practical wisdom): how children graduate from moral habits around age 8–10 when virtues clash (e.g., honesty vs. compassion), and why institutions need collective phronesis in teams.