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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Contempt has been conceptualized as a sentiment, encompassing both attitudes and emotions.
  • Humility is a complex psychological construct with attitudinal and emotional dimensions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and explore the utility of conceptualizing humility as a sentiment.
  • To integrate recent findings on humility within this proposed sentiment framework.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of existing research on humility.
  • Conceptual analysis drawing parallels between humility and other sentiments like contempt.

Main Results:

  • Humility shares characteristics with sentiments, possessing both cognitive and affective components.
  • Viewing humility as a sentiment offers a novel lens for its study.

Conclusions:

  • Conceptualizing humility as a sentiment may provide a more integrated understanding of its antecedents, phenomenology, and functional consequences.
  • This framework could advance psychological research on positive character strengths and emotional experiences.