Measure Of Humility Research Articles

Developing a Text‐Based Measure of Humility in Inquiry Using Computational Grounded Theory

ABSTRACTWe describe a project in which we develop a text‐based measure of HI in the context of scholarly communication using corpora of scientific publications. The data and analytic approach we use will circumvent known concerns with self‐reported data on humility levels and will be calculable on a large scale. We use a computational grounded theory approach to develop a text‐based measure of HI. We draw from an annotated corpus of scientific articles in economics, psychology, and sociology (2010–2023), generating three supra‐dimensions of HI (Epistemic, Rhetorical, and Transparent) and several novel sub‐codes of HI. We present our initial analysis with a focus on the three dimensions of HI derived from a computational grounded theory approach. The text‐based measure helps us better understand how contextual factors shape HI and contribute to mixed methods in information science research.

Replication Study to Evaluate the Effects of Awe on Humility

This paper replicates Stellar and Colleagues’ 2018 study involving an experimental manipulation of awe using standardized video induction, as well as proposing and testing out an additional hypothesis. The previous study hypothesized that watching an awe-inducing video would lead participants to write fewer strengths before writing their weaknesses. In addition to the replication, we hypothesized that participants with higher scores of depressive symptomatology (DS) would list fewer strengths due to diminished self-concept and self-efficacy. Ninety-four undergraduate psychology students were recruited from McGill University ranging from 18 to 35 years of age. Participants were randomly assigned to either the awe-inducing or neutral video condition, and then filled out measures of humility, emotional reactions, and DS. In contradiction with the original study, participants in the awe condition and the neutral condition did not significantly differ in their ratio of disclosed strengths to weaknesses, therefore no significant correlations were found between awe and humility or humility and depression. Additionally, results indicated that participants with greater DS did not list fewer strengths compared to those scoring lower on the CES-D. We were unable to directly replicate the original study and thus rejected our alternate hypothesis. This study had various potential limitations, among which are the possibilities of self-report bias, issues regarding convenience sampling, and bias due to time constraints. The current study advances the literature by including depression relating to awe and humility. Further research is needed, to differentiate lab-induced awe from natural experiences of awe and identify possible moderating factors on humility.

Measuring humility in musical contexts: Initial development of the Musical Humility Scale

The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a psychometric measure of humility in musical contexts. Using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) ( N = 423), we demonstrated initial evidence for the validity of a theoretical model of musical humility. We used CFA to test an a priori model building from prior research, which confirmed five factors: purposeful musical engagement and collaboration, other-orientedness, lack of superiority, acknowledgment of shortcomings and learnability, and healthy pride. The resulting Musical Humility Scale is comprised of 30 items that may be further tested alongside other psychometric batteries for investigating predictors and correlates of humility in musical participation. We offer limitations and directions for future research, including strategies for refining the testing criteria and suggestions for establishing convergent and discriminant validity.

Can Humility Be Measured? Difficulties Faced in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Humility

Alçakgönüllülük yüzyıllardır dini ve felsefi gelenekler tarafından üzerinde durulan önemli bir erdem olsa da bu erdeme yönelik ampirik ilginin başlangıcı pozitif psikoloji yaklaşımıyla birlikte olmuştur. Ancak alçakgönüllülüğü ele alan bilimsel araştırmalar bazı güçlüklerle karşılaşmışlardır. Bunlardan ilki alçakgönüllülüğün kavramsallaştırılması problemidir. Bir takım faktörlerden ötürü alçakgönüllülük tanımları bir çalışmadan diğerine değişkenlik göstermiştir. Ancak yakın zamanda gerçekleştirilen çalışmalar alçakgönüllülüğün “benliğin tam bir şekilde değerlendirilmesi, sadelik ve kişilerarası yönelimlilik” olmak üzere üç temel bileşeni üzerinde durmaktadır. Alçakgönüllülük araştırmalarında karşılaşılan ikinci güçlük ise ölçüm problemidir. Ölçüm alanında alçakgönüllülük, doğası itibarıyla öz bildirim ölçme yöntemlerine kolayca tabi olmayan bir yapıya sahiptir. Buna yapının değişken tanımları da eklenince alçakgönüllülüğü ölçebilecek geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçüm aracı uzun süre geliştirilememiştir. Alçakgönüllülüğü ölçen geçerli bir öz bildirim ölçeğini geliştirmede karşılaşılan bir takım güçlüklerden ötürü araştırmacılar bu zor yapıyı değerlendirebilmek üzere öz-bildirim ölçeklerine karşı alternatif ve yenilikçi yaklaşımlar geliştirmişlerdir.

Meta-Analyses of the Reliabilities of Measures of Forgiveness and Humility

Meta-analyses of 264 studies using one of nine measures of forgiveness and 85 studies using one of four measures of humility are reported. Measures of forgiveness have very good internal consistency, with three measures and four. Measures of humility have respectable internal consistency . Measures typically have been developed with early adult, university student samples, but internal consistency estimates are nearly as high with other adult samples. The limited available evidence supports the internal consistencies with adolescent samples. Additional comparisons by country and electronic versus paper-pencil administration are reported.

Be it ever so humble: Proposing a dual-dimension account and measurement of humility

What does it mean to be humble? We argue that humility is an epistemically and ethically aligned state of awareness – the experience of ourselves as a small part of a larger universe and as one among a host of other morally relevant beings. So conceived, humility can be operationalized and measured along the dual dimensions of low self-focus and high other-focus and is distinct from other related constructs (e.g., modesty and open-mindedness). We discuss our newly developed scale (Study 1 and 2), and provide preliminary validation using self-report (Study 3) and behavioral measures (Study 4), showing that humility is related to people’s general ethical orientation (e.g., empathy, universalism/benevolence, and civic responsibility), their well-being (e.g., sense of autonomy, life-purpose, and secure attachment), mature religious beliefs/practices, and reactions to disagreement – specifically, people high in humility sat closer and less angled away from their conversation partner with whom they disagreed. Together, this provides support for our new Dual-Dimension Humility Scale.

A call for SCAI members to become physician leaders.

In 2010 Robert Kocher MD painted a grim view of two possible futures 1. Both included accountable care organizations (ACOs) as key players in the United States health care system. In one version of the future, physicians took responsibility for leading ACOs, and consequently set the policies by which ACOs operated. Physicians were key decision-makers, advocated for excellent patient care, and reaped the economic benefits of efficient care rendered in the ACOs. In the other, very different vision of the future, physicians ceded control of ACOs to hospital administrators who operated their ACOs to benefit hospitals. In this vision, physicians dwindled in status, influence, and economic well-being, and patient care suffered. Kocher's message is clear: take a seat at the leadership table, or be on the menu. This paper is a call for interventional cardiologists to step up to positions of leadership to make sure that Kocher's second vision of the future does not come true. One theory of leadership holds that good leaders are good leaders because they have certain inborn traits 2. The opposing theory holds that good leadership is learned. Both are partly true. Either way, the drive and ambition required to be an interventional cardiologist makes us particularly well-suited for leadership. Most interventional cardiologists have many traits of “natural” leaders. We know how to set goals, make decisions under stress, learn and rebound from failure, and lead and inspire teams. All of these are important for successful leaders. Some leadership skills must be acquired through study, including business and financial savvy, negotiation, and knowledge of organizational behavior. But if they can be mastered by college business majors they can also be learned by physicians. Other qualities such as emotional intelligence and relationship-building, if not learned through medical or interventional cardiology training, can be picked up by aspiring leaders through hard work and a measure of humility. Interventional cardiologists are used to mastering new skills and techniques on the job; if we can learn new structural heart disease procedures we can learn how to read a financial statement or develop a strategic plan. Interventional cardiologists need to take leadership positions in health care for two reasons. The first is the welfare of our patients. As payment systems transition to “value-based”, and as health systems seek ways to make health care more efficient, no group is as well-positioned to understand threats to patients from health care reform, or to guard the interests of patients, as are physicians. Physicians have a moral obligation to lead health care organizations at all levels so as to protect the interests of their patients 2. The second reason for physicians to learn leadership is to retain control of their own fate. If you aren't leading, someone less competent may be leading you. If you aren't leading, someone with a non-patient-oriented viewpoint may lead your organization. If you aren't leading, someone else may lead you down a path of professional dissatisfaction. Academic physicians 4, surgeons 5, family practitioners 6 and heart failure physicians 7 have issued calls for their colleagues to become physician leaders. This is your call to leadership. Not only do interventional cardiologists have the same reasons as other specialists to become leaders, but interventional cardiologists are particularly well-suited to do it. Colleagues – answer this challenge, prepare yourself for leadership, and step up to leadership positions in your organizations. Thanks for critique and contribution to this article by Jeff Adams MBA, Susan Frye MBA, and Mary Stark MFA.

Reproductive biology and medicine 2015--the year in review.

It would be an understatement to suggest that the discoveries in reproductive biology and medicine during 2015 were anything short of remarkable. And to rank these according to potential impact on our field would be a disservice to the groups that have persevered in tackling fundamental questions with the most sophisticated of techniques ensconced in the biomedical research enterprise of this decade. And so, with a measure of humility, a sense of awe, and the poetic license liberally taken by your EIC, a short summary of what might be considered a sentinel of what reproductive medicine may look like in the coming years is provided below. Progress in the area of germline stem cells continues to dominate a research landscape aiming to define the embryonic origins of primordial germ cells (PGCs) in molecular terms while at the same time nudging this line of research into the domain of treating infertility in men and women. That the horizon indeed holds the promise of making germline stem cells in vivo and in vitro is evidenced by the latest contributions from the laboratory of Surani and colleagues who have now mapped a molecular signature for the production of PGCs in humans (Tang et al., A Unique Gene Regulatory Network Resets the Human Germline Epigenome for Development. Cell. 2015 Jun 4;161(6):1453–67. doi: 10. 1016/j.cell.2015.04.053. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/26046444). And the continuing quest for ways to obtain the best quality stem cells, which the field of regenerative medicine has been waiting for (as human ARTs sets the gold standards for quality embryo production), has taken an interesting twist of fate with a recent publication from the laboratory of Susan Fisher and her colleagues at UCSF (Zdavkovic et al., Human stem cells from single blastomeres reveal pathways of embryonic or trophoblast fate specification. http://dev.biologists.org/lookup/ doi/10.1242/dev.122846). Taking single blastomeres from four 8-cell and one 12-cell embryos from a single individual lead to the derivation of ten ES cell lines, each of which displayed unique transcriptomic and protein heterogeneities, providing new insights into the allocation of cell lineages in the human embryo. Gene editing in human embryos captured the attention of many this past year. The power of CRISPR/Cas9 entered the arena of reproductive medicine with much fanfare as a result of the publication by Liang and colleagues proof-of-principle case using ART generated three PN zygotes (Liang et al., CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes. Protein Cell. 2015 May;6(5):363–72. doi: 10.1007/ s13238-015-0153-5. Epub 2015 Apr 18. http://www.ncbi. nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25894090). This work sparked renewed interest in prospects for genetic engineering but in tandem has brought the level of discourse to new heights in light of ethical and societal implications that are only now being subject to the degree of scrutiny they deserve. That RNAs of the many varieties now understood to have important physiological functions have been catching their fair share of attention at both the basic and clinical levels has come as no surprise. From the Kravetz and Diamond groups, this year came the exciting finding that certain spermassociated RNAs detected by next gen sequencing could be Capsule 2015 was a year of unprecedented discovery in the fields of reproductive biology and medicine. Here, we take note of ten publications that have drawn upon technological advances of the past decade to bring new ways of thinking about old problems into the realm of human ARTs and reproductive genetics.

When Colleagues Go Astray...

One of the saddest aspects of a long career as a psychiatric psychotherapist is the experience of working with colleagues who have seriously betrayed the ethical code of our profession. Mostly sexual violations, these are inevitably distressing situations that gravely harm patients, ruin careers, and bring about personal tragedy to the wayward colleague and his or her family. When we encounter these situations, either through doing damage control with the victims or by trying to help the colleague deal with what he or she has done, we ourselves must come to grips with a sea of conflicting feelings in order to offer the best we can do as professionals. Each situation presents its own unique set of circumstances and challenges. Dealing with our own feelings about what has happened Understandably, our first reaction to hearing about the situation is a feeling of shock and revulsion. We have been intensively indoctrinated with the dictum of primum non nocere or “first, do no harm.” A patient has been hurt by the boundary violation, and so has the ethical tradition of our profession. Our colleague has betrayed what we stand for and undermined the fundamental trust that is essential to the patient’s full engagement in treatment, especially psychotherapy. Ethical violations also damage the public image of psychiatry, medicine, and other mental health professions. As we learn more about what has happened, our feelings may progress to indignation and anger. If we learn that the perpetrator is a habitual offender, we want to condemn and ostracize him or her. But we are also likely to be aware of the truth uttered by early colonist John Bradford, as he watched prisoners marched to their execution, that “But for the grace of God, there goes John Bradford.” We are well aware that prominent, experienced leaders in psychiatry and other mental health professions, even professional association presidents or chairs of ethics committees, have fallen to disgrace in the wake of ethical violations. The private setting of psychotherapy and the encounter of deep-seated, intense emotional forces place a heavy burden on our adherence to ethical constraints. Thus we approach our task with some measure of humility, along with anxiety about our own vulnerability. We also wonder about the role the patient has played in the dismal events. I resist using the word “blame” in regard to the patient’s part, because no matter what the patient has done, it was the therapist’s responsibility to maintain ethical boundaries. Patients bring powerful forces with them into therapy, and sometimes they act them out. It is our task to assist the patient in containing them and mastering them through understanding and managing them in a healthier manner, but a boundary violation is a failure on the part of the therapist. These negative feelings are countered by compassion. We feel for the patient whose opportunity for the benefits of therapy has turned into a traumatic situation that will make future therapy much more difficult. There is much work to do, if the patient has not been too hurt to accept it. We also may feel for the colleague, especially if the colleague is a friend or respected member of our professional community. We wonder how this could have happened. We suspect that shame, anguish, and despair rule the day. We know that the colleague’s family relations and livelihood are in grave peril. We

Aantekeninge Oor Vigsmortaliteit: Die Groot Onsekerheid

After identifying the many uncertainties regarding actual levels of AIDS mortality, it is suggested that writers who try their hands at estimating and projecting such levels should evince a large measure of humility, and take heed of the warning of a simulation modeler, Nicolas Brouard: projection of the AIDS epidemic must have a much lower reliability than that for a similar demographic process even if the infectivity level were as reliable as the fertility level” (1989:84).

Olin Palladium Award Address: Some Observations on Conducting Research in the Digital Era

This is obviously a very happy day in my life, and one of the most important days in my scientific career. It is important therefore to put things in perspective, and a measure of humility is called for. I would like to start by thanking the Honors & Awards Committee for choosing me to be the recipient of the Olin Palladium Award for the year 2003. Whatever scientific achievements I may have had to justify their decision, it also indicates, I am happy to say, that over the past 40 years as an electrochemist I must have made many more friends than enemies!

Does Six Sigma Belong in Sixth Grade?

In their search for the next generation of talented employees, big businesses are looking critically at the early years of their future recruits. Fearing that public education may only get worse, corporations are initiating partnerships with schools to help bolster the quality and tailor the skill sets of graduates soon to enter the work force. In today9s technological society, the bar has been raised: the required level of reading, writing and arithmetic skills is moving steadily upward. Yet for business/school partnerships to work, companies have to listen, as well as teach. Educators probably have more to offer businesses than businesses can offer to education. By operating with some measure of humility, companies stand to gain much from their education partners: how to create an environment in which people—employees and students alike—can not only learn and achieve, but prosper.

Chaucer and the Trivium: The Mindsong of the Canterbury Tales (review)

264 Reviews a very useful guide to readers finding their w a y between the present contributions and pursuing issues raised and approaches to the material further. There is m u c h to be gained from a concerted effort of reading through the collection in its entirety. The essays are short and eminently readable, and, especially w h e n taken as a whole, contribute, in many significant ways, to the current discourse on w o m e n and the Middle Ages. Margaret Rogerson Department ofEnglish University of Sydney Russell, J . Stephen, Chaucer and the Trivium: The Mindsong of the Canterbu Tales, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1998; cloth; pp. x, 265 R.R.P. US$49.95. This lively study of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales covers the General Pr the Knight's Tale, the Man of Law's Tale and the Clerk's Tale in detail a in its conclusion, deals briefly with the characterisation of the Wife of Bath and the Merchant, and also with the Tale ofMelibee and the Franklin's Tal It is aimed primarily at students (who are characterised as 'workers', those w h o try to connect with others) of Chaucer and Middle English literature but is also directed to those w h o are concerned with 'medieval ideas about the mind, language, expression and identity' (p. ix). It is eminently readable, with a clear and sometimes colloquial style, and frequently uses twentieth-century analogies to clarify complex points. It situates itself not as a definitive or exhaustive discussion of its topic, but as an invitation and stimulus to further work in the area. Its major title gives a clear indication of its subject-matter; a discussion of Chaucer's work in relation to the curriculum of the trivium. Its subtitle makes clear its focus on the Canterbury Tales and introduces the key term 'mindsong' which, like 'worker', is a term expressing connection. A s Professor Russell explains, 'mindsong' encapsulates the truth, acknowledged by medieval thinkers as well as by modern ones, that 'we never actually connect with each other at all, that w e can never do better than to share words and ideas imperfectly, inexactly', and that 265 'our words try to connect' but are never more than 'a performance that i s both by us and about us' (p. ix). In a short introductory chapter which sets out to reassure medievalists of the validity of their enterprise, Russell positions his work as a negotiation between the 'presumptions of the old historicism and the despair of the New', arguing that, while 'a measure of humility in the face of the past' m a y be a positive challenge to scholars, it can be so only if it frees itself from the enervating constraints of scepticism and is energised by 'palpable passion, curiosity, and boldness, at least to explore and hypothesize' (p. 2). Certainly, there is humility in this book and a deep passion that sustains its carefully elucidated thesis. Russell argues that the trivium was a formative influence on the Canterbury Tales and that an understanding of the 'trivial' curriculum (especially of the sister arts of grammar and logic, the bases of medieval understandings of the cognitive processes) leads not only to a validation of truths already intuitively held about the text, but also to new ways of knowing both the characters w h o populate i t and the tales they tell. Before embarking on his detailed analyses of the General Prologue and selected tales, Russell presents a 'litel tretys' on medieval education, its values and priorities (p. 5). This 'tretys' (pp. 6-53) offers a clear and cogent exploration of the various branches of the trivium, the basis of language framing in the medieval period. Russell is cautious about our ability to know precisely what Chaucer's education was, but is prepared to claim that, if it is assumed that he would have been exposed to the languagebased trivium subjects, then it m a y equally be assumed that he would have shared the understanding that language is a fallible medium of expression. He further suggests that, along with other medieval artists and thinkers Chaucer would have seen...

Academic Sanction-Reply

In Reply. — Mr Susser of CHISA is uncertain if I oppose any form of academic sanction. I am in favor of academic sanction that reflects the criteria outlined in the article, including a careful judgment of the full consequences and a clear statement of the reason, nature, exceptions, and expected duration, with specifics for rescinding the sanction, salted with a measure of humility for transcultural barriers and unconditional acceptance of ongoing negotiations. This is very different from passing a resolution during an ill-attended business meeting of a scientific association. As far as the World Medical Association's announced policy with regard to academic sanction, it seems more enlightened than that of many others. That it admits the Medical Association of South Africa is another matter. Rather than seeking an evil motive in a partially good action, a policy against indiscriminate academic sanction, I think those physicians who are so vocal

The future of child psychiatry. Mandate for change.

It seems that the future of child psychiatry is uncertain, since its present body of knowledge and its identity both within its own discipline and relative to others are unclear. Nevertheless, the vast problems of childhood and adolescence delineated by the recent plethora of reports indicate the unmet needs, and it is obviously necessary that child psychiatrists should join other groups in attempting to radically alleviate these problems. But although it has been fashionable to describe the radical child psychiatrist as liberal, flexible, non-committed and open, true radicalism in chid psychiatry would be signalled by a return to structure, by careful and circumscribed clinical activity and by a proper measure of humility.

Jan Mossin's Theory of Financial Markets

* As one whose own work and education have been greatly influenced by Jan Mossin's ideas, I greet the opportunity to review Mossin's recent monograph' with some measure of humility. The admiring pupil must respectfully defer to the master. Those who have enjoyed the cogency and elegance of Mossin's published papers will not be disappointed. Where his monograph is redundant of his earlier work and where the related work of others is reviewed, the reader will find a fresh presentation with new insights; where new materia 1 is developed, Mossin preserves his characteristic laconic incisiveness. The dominant theme-integration of portfolio theory, security valuation, financing-investment decisions of firms, and the optimality of security market allocation into a cohesive and logically satisfying model reflects the modern development of financial theory under uncertainty, a dramatic burst of ideas fueled, to a large extent, by Mossin's own prior work. Mossin was among the first to perceive the implications of the mean-variance security valuation model and the objective of maximization of the value of corporate securities for corporate financial decisions. Like the classical construction of a play, Mossin moves from a brief Prologue (Chapter 1 ) into Act I, personal financial theory (Chapters 2 and 3), to Act II, security valuation (Chapters 4-6), and to Act III, corporate financial theory (Chapters 7 and 8), with the climax appropriately in Act Il-statement of the mean-variance security valuation equation. Chapter 2, Taking and Risk Aversion, contains one of the most readable and compact treatments of the relevant features of utility theory for financial analysis: the axiomatic basis of measurable utility, comments on Savage's simultaneous axiomatization of utility and subjective probability, the simplest version of the portfolio selection problem under uncertainty (one risk-free security with zero rate of return and one risky security with two states-of-theworld), implications of risk aversion, justification and insurance analysis of absolute and proportional risk aversion,2 comments on indirect utility functions, and the significance of the distinction between temporal and timeless prospects in the two-period consumption allocation problem.3 This would also have been an appropriate place for a development of temporal measures of risk aversion,4