HAVE we reached the peak of the culture war? Looking at my social media feeds, it seems that polarised thinking and misinformation have never been more common. Even users I once admired now draw on dubious evidence to support their beliefs.
Perhaps it is time for us all to embrace a little “existential humility”. I came across this idea in a paper by Jeffrey Green at Virginia Commonwealth University and his colleagues. They build on a decade of research examining the benefits of “intellectual humility” more generally – our ability to recognise the errors in our judgement and remain…