Opening the Mind to Learning: Intellectual Humility Predicts Beneficial Approaches to Learning

I was there in a talk from Dr. Karina Schumann, Stanford University. She introduced a new terminology to me, Intellectual Humility. Intellectual Humility means being aware that you don't know everything, that you are probably wrong as often as you are right, and that others have as much opportunity to be right if they apply themselves as you do. It also means not fearing to be wrong, but instead viewing it as an opportunity to be right later. She presented several studies related to this topic. One of the studies found that intellectual humility was associated with greater motivation to learn and greater self-reported engagement in adaptive strategies for learning. In other study, intellectual humility was associated with greater openness to learning from others in a disagreement context. These are really interesting heads ups regarding designing the online social learning system, where high motivation of the learners are critical factors influencing their learning outcomes.