The Psychology Of Wisdom

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.

• | Author: Robert J. Sternberg|Judith Glück
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: May 19, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Psychology
• | ISBN-10: 1009088009
• | ISBN-13: 9781009088008