The shared characteristics of wisdom suggest that wisdom and its related body of knowledge and skills have been culturally selected because of their adaptive value for humankind. Two major approaches to the psychological study of wisdom, grounded in either implicit or explicit theories of wisdom, are distinguished. Within the explicit approaches three lines of work are noted: assessment of wisdom as a personal characteristic, assessment of wisdom in the neo-Piagetian tradition of postformal operations and mature thought, and assessment of wisdom as an expert system. Within these explicit approaches to the assessment of wisdom, a number of individual-differences measures are identified.
«The shared characteristics of wisdom suggest that wisdom and its related body of knowledge and skills have been culturally selected because of their adaptive value for humankind. Two major approaches to the psychological study of wisdom, grounded in either implicit or explicit theories of wisdom, are distinguished. Within the explicit approaches three lines of work are noted: assessment of wisdom as a personal characteristic, assessment of wisdom in the neo-Piagetian tradition of postformal oper...
»