Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But achieving intellectual humility is hard. Overconfidence is a persistent problem, faced by many, and does not appear to be ...

Now, here’s something you don’t see every day; an essay in Nature (no link available) urging humility in creating public policy around science. The author, Sheila Jasanoff, is a professor of Science ...

The virtue of intellectual humility is getting a lot of attention. It’s heralded as a part of wisdom, an aid to self-improvement and a catalyst for more productive political dialogue. While ...