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Knowing what you know: Intellectual humility and judgments of recognition memory

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Deffler, SA; Leary, MR; Hoyle, RH
Published in: Personality and Individual Differences
July 1, 2016

This study examined the relationship between recognition memory and intellectual humility, the degree to which people recognize that their personal beliefs are fallible. Participants completed the General Intellectual Humility Scale, an incidental old/new recognition task, and a task that assessed the tendency to over-claim one's knowledge. Signal detection analyses showed that higher intellectual humility was associated with higher discriminability between old and new items, regardless of whether the items were congruent or incongruent with participants' own beliefs. However, intellectual humility was not related to response bias, indicating that intellectually arrogant people were not biased to claim that they knew everything. Together, the findings support a relationship between intellectual humility and performance on memory tasks, indicating that individual differences in intellectual humility may partly reflect how people process information and judge what they do and do not know.

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Personality and Individual Differences

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0191-8869

Publication Date

July 1, 2016

Volume

96

Start / End Page

255 / 259

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Deffler, S. A., Leary, M. R., & Hoyle, R. H. (2016). Knowing what you know: Intellectual humility and judgments of recognition memory. Personality and Individual Differences, 96, 255–259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.016
Deffler, S. A., M. R. Leary, and R. H. Hoyle. “Knowing what you know: Intellectual humility and judgments of recognition memory.” Personality and Individual Differences 96 (July 1, 2016): 255–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.016.
Deffler SA, Leary MR, Hoyle RH. Knowing what you know: Intellectual humility and judgments of recognition memory. Personality and Individual Differences. 2016 Jul 1;96:255–9.
Deffler, S. A., et al. “Knowing what you know: Intellectual humility and judgments of recognition memory.” Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 96, July 2016, pp. 255–59. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.016.
Deffler SA, Leary MR, Hoyle RH. Knowing what you know: Intellectual humility and judgments of recognition memory. Personality and Individual Differences. 2016 Jul 1;96:255–259.
Journal cover image

Published In

Personality and Individual Differences

DOI

ISSN

0191-8869

Publication Date

July 1, 2016

Volume

96

Start / End Page

255 / 259

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology