Interventions that enhance prosocial behaviors, emotional regulation and spirituality — all of which researchers consider “components of wisdom” — appeared effective among a proportion of individuals ...

Wisdom has gained increasing interest among researchers over the last few decades as a biologically based personality trait relevant to physical well-being and mental health. Previous studies have ...

In the eternal quest for happiness, people can get caught in false fulfillment traps like chasing a big bonus at work or a high-profile award. Psychologists who study happiness, however, have largely ...

A new study published in Frontiers in Psychology charts out why men and women exhibit different levels and types of wisdom. “Wisdom has been shown to be related to better mental health and perhaps ...

Previous studies have shown that wisdom is a personality trait underpinning mental health and well-being. Recently, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine looked at ...

The great philosopher Aristotle once said, "The wise man knows he knows nothing." Indeed, wisdom is a complex and multifaceted construct that has been studied across various disciplines, including ...

Researchers asked 21 hospice patients, ages 58 to 97 and in the last six months of their lives, to describe the core characteristics of wisdom and whether their terminal illnesses had changed or ...

Scientists have taken the connection between wisdom, loneliness and biology one step further, reporting that wisdom and loneliness appear to influence -- and/or be influenced by -- microbial diversity ...