WISDOM AND IRRATIONALITY: PROBE TO THE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS

• Authors: Kordacova Jana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper focuses on the question of whether there exists a relation between irrationality (Ellis type) and wisdom (as understood by M. Ardelt), and if it does, what it is, and to what extent irrational beliefs influence the level of wisdom. Results of a study conducted on 167 Slovak university students confirmed the negative relation of irrationality and wisdom, from which follows that rational persons were significantly wiser than irrational persons and women were wiser than men. The results also showed that of the 5 factors of the Irrational Belief Scale IPA, general wisdom was best (negatively) predicted by Negative Expectations.

Keywords

EN

BEHAVIORAL APPROACH; IRRATIONAL BELIEFS; NEGATIVE EXPECTATIONS; WISDOM

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 339-346
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kordacova Jana

• Jana Kordacova, Ustav experimentalnej psychologie SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA094437