Knowing what you know: Intellectual humility and judgments of recognition memory
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2016-07-01
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© 2016 Elsevier Ltd.This study examined the relationship between recognition memory and intellectual humility, the degree to which people recognize that their personal beliefs are fallible. Participants completed the General Intellectual Humility Scale, an incidental old/new recognition task, and a task that assessed the tendency to over-claim one's knowledge. Signal detection analyses showed that higher intellectual humility was associated with higher discriminability between old and new items, regardless of whether the items were congruent or incongruent with participants' own beliefs. However, intellectual humility was not related to response bias, indicating that intellectually arrogant people were not biased to claim that they knew everything. Together, the findings support a relationship between intellectual humility and performance on memory tasks, indicating that individual differences in intellectual humility may partly reflect how people process information and judge what they do and do not know.
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Deffler, SA, MR Leary and RH Hoyle (2016). Knowing what you know: Intellectual humility and judgments of recognition memory. Personality and Individual Differences, 96. pp. 255–259. 10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.016 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13817.
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Mark R. Leary
Mark Leary is Garonzik Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from West Virginia Wesleyan College and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Florida. He taught previously at Denison University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Wake Forest University.
Leary has published 14 books and more than 250 scholarly articles and chapters on topics dealing with social motivation, emotion, and self-relevant thought, including The Curse of the Self: Self-awareness, Egotism, and the Quality of Human Life. He has also recorded two courses for the Teaching Company's Great Courses series: Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior and Why You Are Who You Are: Investigations to Human Personality.
Leary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He received the Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity and was co-recipient of the Scientific Impact Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. He was founding editor of Self and Identity, editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review, and served as President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Rick Hoyle
I am a social and quantitative psychologist. My research primarily concerns social, psychological, and technological factors that contribute to the development of and change in health-promoting and health-risk behaviors during late adolescence and emerging adulthood. A secondary interest is factors at play in political and religious polarization. I also specialize in latent variable models of observational data, with a particular focus on modeling stability and change in data from traditional and intensive longitudinal designs.
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