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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Intellectual humility, the recognition of knowledge limitations, varies significantly among individuals.
  • The developmental pathways and individual differences in children's intellectual humility remain underexplored.
  • Understanding parent-to-child transmission offers insights into the origins of intellectual humility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the potential transmission of intellectual humility from parents to children aged 7-10.
  • To examine how different measures of parental intellectual humility relate to children's self-assessment of knowledge.

Main Methods:

  • Parents (N=108) completed self-report (Comprehensive Intellectual Humility Scale) and behavioral (Prompted Explanation Task) measures of intellectual humility.
  • Children (N=108) completed a knowledge estimation task assessing their confidence in answering explanatory questions.
  • Correlational analyses examined the relationships between parental and child intellectual humility measures.

Main Results:

  • Parental self-report and behavioral measures of intellectual humility were not correlated.
  • Higher self-reported parental intellectual humility was paradoxically associated with lower child intellectual humility.
  • Lower behavioral intellectual humility in parents (i.e., fewer references to knowledge gaps) predicted lower intellectual humility in children's knowledge self-assessments.

Conclusions:

  • Parental intellectual humility is linked to children's intellectual humility, but the nature of this link is complex and measure-dependent.
  • Behavioral indicators of parental intellectual humility may be more predictive of child development in this area than self-reports.
  • Findings highlight the importance of considering measurement methods when studying the intergenerational transmission of intellectual humility.