Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
208 University of North Texas (142096)
Principal Investigator: Hook,Joshua Nord
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 39,036
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 7/1/22 - 6/30/23
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Psychology
Department, Center, School, or Institute: College of Lib Arts & Soc Sci
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Applied Research on Intellectual Humility Request for Proposals (RFP)
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Georgia State University
CFDA:
Program Title: none
Note:
As our world becomes increasingly connected and globalized, people are more likely to engage with individuals and groups who are different from them. Unfortunately, this engagement often leads to tension and conflict because humans demonstrate a strong penchant to perceive themselves as ?right? and defend their perspective. Intellectual humility (IH) may be a critical character strength that enables individuals to acknowledge and own their intellectual limitations and engage positively with those who are different from them. After a slow start, research on IH has developed quickly in the past few years. Compared to other positive psychology constructs (e.g., gratitude or forgiveness; Davis et al., 2016; Wade et al., 2014), however, we see very limited applied work on IH. In other words, although there is empirical evidence that IH is important, there is a dearth of theory and research exploring how individuals and groups can develop and practice IH. Thus, the central goal of this project is to catalyze applied intervention research on IH through a Request for Proposals (RFP) and several internal research projects. We seek to cultivate both basic and applied research in the development of IH. Applied research on IH fills an important gap because it seeks to develop interventions that help people acknowledge and own their intellectual limitations (which may involve the practice of other complementary virtues, such as open-mindedness). We are particularly interested in promoting effective strategies to help people engage a life-long process of growth and change. Accordingly, we will explore two Big Questions: (1) What are the psychological mechanisms responsible for enhancing intellectual humble behavior? (2) In what domains, applications, and contexts are interventions most beneficial? To address these questions, we will host an RFP that will invite projects focused on (a) testing mechanisms (where the focus will be on internal validity), or (b) translating and applying existing research on IH to contexts where it seems most necessary and potentially helpful (where focus will be on external validity). We also include three internal projects that align with the main priorities of the RFP. Altogether, this project will produce at least 30 top-tier empirical journal articles and at least 30 professional conference presentations. Critically, the long-term impact of this project will be to provide a suite of empirically-tested and publicly-available intervention efforts to cultivate IH.
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