Running head: STATE HUMILITY CONCEPTUAL VALIDATION 1 State Humility: Measurement, Conceptual Validation, and Intrapersonal Processes Short title: STATE HUMILITY CONCEPTUAL VALIDATION

State humility: Measurement, conceptual validation, and intrapersonal processes

Humility is a core psychological process theoretically marked by low self-focus, secure identity, and balanced awareness of strengths and weaknesses. We began with a consensual definition of humility before theoretically unpacking it. First, using 25 samples and 2622 adults, we developed the Brief State Humility Scale, which demonstrates strong construct validity and good reliability, is sensit...

Humble Beginnings: Current Trends, State Perspectives, and Hallmarks of Humility

After decades of neglect, research in humility is finally turning a corner. Within the past few years, investigators have articulated two promising strategies to overcome methodological concerns—namely, using personality judgments and designing humility “stress tests” to elicit humility-relevant behavior. We also highlight an alternative perspective of humility that has not yet gained much atte...

Development and validation of a multi-dimensional measure of intellectual humility

This paper presents five studies on the development and validation of a scale of intellectual humility. This scale captures cognitive, affective, behavioral, and motivational components of the construct that have been identified by various philosophers in their conceptual analyses of intellectual humility. We find that intellectual humility has four core dimensions: Open-mindedness (versus Arro...

Running head: HUMILITY AS A DESIRABLE PERSONALITY TRAIT 1 Humility as a Desirable Personality Trait and a Construct of Effective Leadership: A Review of the Literature

PSYCHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF HUMILITY 1 In press, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Running Head: STRUCTURE OF HUMILITY The Psychological Structure of Humility

Psychological inquiry into humility has advanced considerably over the past decade, yet this literature suffers from two notable limitations. First, there is no clear consensus among researchers about what humility is, and conceptualizations vary considerably across studies. Second, researchers have uniformly operationalized humility as a positive, socially desirable construct, while dismissing...