Science is an "endless frontier," and opportunities for transformative discovery abound. The young scientist will profit by paying mind to two forms of balance: the contrast between depth and breadth in training, and the contrast between hypothesis-driven research and random inquiry into the unknown.

Simple text classification algorithms perform remarkably well when used for detecting famous quotes in literary or philosophical text, with f-scores approaching 95%. We compare the task to topic classification, polarity classification and authorship attribution.

In this paper, I am concerned with the relationship of the book of Daniel and the biblical wisdom literature. The study draws its impetus from the belief of von Rad that apocalyptic is the "child" of wisdom (1965, II, pp. 304-15). My intent is to test von Rad's claim by a study of wisdom terminology in Daniel in order to determine whether, in fact, that book has its roots in the wisdom traditio...

This study explores the various relations between two important processes in life-span development: wisdom and learning from significant life experience. A diverse sample of 375 individuals from Taiwan, culled from an initial sample of 475, completed a sequence of three questionnaires that asked them to describe their most significant life learning, the wisdom they had displayed, and the relati...

OBJECTIVES Contrary to lay theories, past work does not suggest robust age differences in wisdom-related knowledge across the adult life span. This study investigated a potential moderator of age differences in wisdom-related knowledge: The age relevance of a given wisdom task. METHOD To test this moderator, 192 participants covering the adult life span were asked to think aloud about a tradi...

R research has advanced our understanding of how people use the advice of others to update their beliefs. Because groups and teams play a significant role in organizations and collectively are wiser than their individual members, it is important to understand their influence on belief revision as well. I report the results of four studies examining intuitions about group wisdom and the informat...