Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Critical Thinking
A topic within Critical Thinking, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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Kathryn Schulz (TED)
Argues that the feeling of being right is indistinguishable from the feeling of being wrong until the moment of correction, so intellectual humility has to be built into how you hold beliefs rather than triggered by noticing your own error.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Mark R. Leary et al.
Defines intellectual humility as recognising the limits of one's own knowledge and treating one's beliefs as fallible, and finds it predicts less polarised judgement of controversial claims independent of general open-mindedness.