Psychology of Wisdom (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction
Redaktion: Sternberg, Robert J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Psychology of Wisdom: An Introduction is the first comprehensive coursebook on wisdom, providing an engaging, balanced, and expert introduction to the psychology of wisdom. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the psychological science of wisdom, covering wide-ranging perspectives. Each chapter includes extensive pedagogy, including a summary, a glossary, bolded terms, practical applications, discussion questions, and a brief description of the authors' research. Topics include the philosophical foundations, folk conceptions, and psychological theories of wisdom; relations of wisdom to morality and ethics, to personality and well-being, to emotion; wisdom and leadership, wisdom and social policy. These topics are covered in a non-technical, bias-free, and student-friendly manner. Written by the most eminent experts in the field, this is the definitive coursebook for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as interested professionals and researchers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009092722
• Artikelnr.: 66176992

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction to Wisdom Theory and Research: 1. Introduction: What
is wisdom and why is it important? Robert J. Sternberg and Judith Glück; 2.
Philosophical foundations for the study of wisdom Jason D. Swartwood; 3.
Folk conceptions of wisdom around the world Nic M. Weststrate; 4.
Psychological theories of wisdom Robert J. Sternberg, Judith Glück and
Sareh Karami; 5. Wisdom: Situational, Dispositional, or Both? Igor
Grossmann; 6. Measurement of wisdom Judith Glück; Part II. Foundations of
Wisdom in the Individual and in the World: 7. Wisdom, intelligence, and
creativity Dowon Choi, Sarah F. Lynch, and James C. Kaufman; 8. Wisdom,
morality, and ethics Judith Glück and Robert J. Sternberg; 9. Wisdom,
personality, and well-being Monika Ardelt and Stephen Pridgen; 10. Wisdom
and Emotion Ute Kunzmann; Part III. The Modifiability of Wisdom: 11. The
development of wisdom Judith Glück; 12. Interventions for developing wisdom
Michel Ferrari, Juensung Kim and Stephanie Morris; Part IV. Wisdom in the
World : 13. Wisdom in the professions Barry Schwartz and Kenneth E. Sharpe;
14. Wisdom development and practice in leadership David Rooney and Bernard
McKenna; 15. Injecting wisdom into social policy so we can deal with
gigantic problems in the World Don Ambrose.