The Wise Mind Balances the Abstract and the Concrete.

Igor Grossmann, Johanna Peetz, Anna Dorfman, Amanda Rotella, Roger Buehler

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Article in Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Developing a General Construal Questionnaire.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Igor GrossmannDepartment of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2681-3600

Johanna PeetzPsychology Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-0315

Anna DorfmanDepartment of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4175-1631

Amanda RotellaDepartment of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2637-1892

Roger BuehlerPsychology Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We explored how individuals' mental representations of complex and uncertain situations impact their ability to reason wisely. To this end, we introduce situated methods to capture abstract and concrete mental representations and the switching between them when reflecting on social challenges. Using these methods, we evaluated the alignment of abstractness and concreteness with four integral facets of wisdom: intellectual humility, open-mindedness, perspective-taking, and compromise-seeking. Data from North American and UK participants (

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construalmeasurementmental representationsperspective-takingwisdom

Identifiers

PMID38974582

DOI10.1162/opmi_a_00149

PMCPMC11226238

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