Justin Ludwig

Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now! Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨

Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.

We’ve launched an open letter.

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The EO has to be interpreted in light of the (decades long) Republican attack on science.

This has nothing to do with improving science. They're using legitImate criticism from within science to (ironically) decrease the credibility of science. They then have no obligation to listen to scientists.

Lay Preferences for and Perceptions of Intellectual Humility Across Societal Roles | Social Cognition Research on intellectual humility (IH)—the awareness of one's intellectual limitations—demonstrates that high levels of self-reported IH are associated with behaviors that are broadly beneficial for i...

New paper alert! Published in Social Cognition, people want experts to be intellectually humble, but see all these experts as falling short of this ideal level of intellectual humility. We discuss implications for person perception and public trust.

Full paper here: doi.org/10.1521/soco...

These findings suggest that cultivating gratitude and humility alongside self-forgiveness may help mitigate the potential negative effects of DF on apology behavior.

At the same time, this is not the whole story. Our research also shows that perceptions of DF can foster gratitude and humility, which in turn encourage sincere, high-quality apologies.

As such, transgressors may bypass the person they hurt, achieving self-forgiveness without making amends. Our findings show that when DF leads to greater self-forgiveness, it can disrupt constructive responses—such as offering high-quality apologies—that are essential for repairing relationships.

Our research highlights an important consideration in situations where someone offends another person: while perceptions of DF for these transgressions can promote self-forgiveness, it may also reduce the likelihood of apologizing—and apologizing well—to the person harmed.

Divine forgiveness (DF)—the belief that one has been forgiven by God—is a deeply meaningful part of many people’s lives and can positively impact their well-being, including the ability to self-forgive after wrongdoing.