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#68: Intellectual Humility with Tenelle Porter


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Tenelle Porter is a new colleague of mine at Ball State University. She's an educational psychologist, and one of the things she studies is intellectual humility, which is people's awareness of the limits of their knowledge and the fallibility of their reasoning. Intellectual humility offers a variety of handy benefits even though there has been some disagreement about what it is, exactly. I was excited to sit down with Tenelle and get her take on intellectual humility, what it does for people, and when we ought to have more or less of it.

Things that come up in this episode:

  • For a nice summary of a lot of the things we discuss, check out Tenelle's new review article in Nature Reviews Psychology (Porter et al., 2022a)
  • Surveying different definitions of "intellectual humility" to clarify the content of this idea (Porter et al., 2022b)
  • Intellectual humility promotes openness to other opinions (Porter & Schumann, 2018)
  • Intellectual humility promotes mastery in learning (Porter et al., 2020)
  • Classroom environments can shape students' intellectual humility (Porter et al., 2022c)

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