app01 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:29:57 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) On Wisdom - Episodes Tagged with “Roxane Cohen Silver” https://www.onwisdompodcast.com/tags/roxane%20cohen%20silver Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:00:00 -0400 What does it actually take to think wisely? On Wisdom digs into the empirical science of wisdom, judgment, and decision-making, and what it means for how we live. Igor Grossmann runs the Wisdom &amp; Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo. Charles Cassidy runs the Evidence-Based Wisdom project in London. Each episode pairs freewheeling conversation with guest spots from leading behavioural scientists working on reasoning, wellbeing, culture, and society. Past guests include Adam Grant, Jonathan Haidt, Paul Bloom, Shannon Vallor, Lisa Barrett, David Dunning, Mara Mather, Tom Gilovich, Laura Carstensen, Oliver Burkeman, Simine Vazire, Dacher Keltner, and more. This autumn: a five-episode special series built around the first Annual Review of Psychology chapter on wisdom since 2011, featuring fifteen scholars on narrative, metacognition, measurement, training, and the neuroscience of wise decisions. en-us episodic What does science tell us about wisdom? Charles Cassidy and Igor Grossmann What does it actually take to think wisely? On Wisdom digs into the empirical science of wisdom, judgment, and decision-making, and what it means for how we live. Igor Grossmann runs the Wisdom &amp; Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo. Charles Cassidy runs the Evidence-Based Wisdom project in London. Each episode pairs freewheeling conversation with guest spots from leading behavioural scientists working on reasoning, wellbeing, culture, and society. Past guests include Adam Grant, Jonathan Haidt, Paul Bloom, Shannon Vallor, Lisa Barrett, David Dunning, Mara Mather, Tom Gilovich, Laura Carstensen, Oliver Burkeman, Simine Vazire, Dacher Keltner, and more. This autumn: a five-episode special series built around the first Annual Review of Psychology chapter on wisdom since 2011, featuring fifteen scholars on narrative, metacognition, measurement, training, and the neuroscience of wise decisions. no psychology, science, happiness, philosophy, wisdom, decision-making, reasoning, society; judgment; metacognition Charles Cassidy and Igor Grossmann charlesdavidcassidy@gmail.com 37: World After Covid series: Wisdom for Positive Consequences (Pt. I) - Sympathy and Compassion, Self-distancing, Perspective-taking, and Learning from pandemics https://www.onwisdompodcast.com/37 47d02109-f627-48c2-ab2a-901fbc9c4992 Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:00:00 -0400 Charles Cassidy and Igor Grossmann 37 World After Covid series: Wisdom for Positive Consequences (Pt. I) - Sympathy and Compassion, Self-distancing, Perspective-taking, and Learning from pandemics full Charles Cassidy and Igor Grossmann On Wisdom dissects the latest research emerging from the field of wisdom research and discusses what it might mean for each of us and for society in terms of reasoning and living more wisely in the 21st Century. 29:36 no <h3>What kind of wisdom will people need to capitalize on the positive societal and/or psychological change after the pandemic?</h3> <p>Igor and Charles share and discuss responses from 57 of the world's leading behavioral and social scientists, collected as part of the <a href="https://worldaftercovid.info/" rel="nofollow noopener">World After Covid</a> project. Each episode, four responses are selected. This time, the conversation covers themes of <strong>sympathy and compassion, self-distancing, perspective-taking, and learning from pandemics</strong> in the midst of the pandemic. Igor wonders what being empathetic and compassionate even looks like online, and Charles ponders lessons not learned from past global catastrophes.</p> <p><strong>Featuring:</strong><br> <a href="https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/rsilver/" rel="nofollow noopener">Roxane Cohen Silver</a>, Social-Personality Psychologist and Adversity Research Trailblazer <br> <a href="https://longevity.stanford.edu/people-2/laura-carstensen/" rel="nofollow noopener">Laura Carstensen</a>, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and Founding Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity<br> <a href="https://www.edouardmachery.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">Edouard Machery</a>, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh<br> <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/anand-menon" rel="nofollow noopener">Anand Menon</a>, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London</p> Roxane Cohen Silver, Laura Carstensen, Edouard Machery, Anand Menon, , solidarity, improved communication, follow rules, control, agency, intellectual humility, patience, social awareness, acknowledge uncertainty, perspective-taking, political cooperation, bipartisanship, self-distancing, compassion, sympathy, connectedness, social support, long-term orientation, care for elders, science interest, work-life balance, critical thinking, optimism, hope, nature, resilience, gratitude, shared humanity, structural change,, political engagement, togetherness, trust, prosocial behavior, autobiographical memory, irrationality, intimate relation, despair, pessimism, career disruptions, educational inequality, loneliness, economic hardship, authoritarianism, social inequality, mistrust, political conflict, wac2020, worldaftercovid, cultural change, forecast, coronavirus, covid-19, predictions, wisdom, society What kind of wisdom will people need to capitalize on the positive societal and/or psychological change after the pandemic?

Igor and Charles share and discuss responses from 57 of the world's leading behavioral and social scientists, collected as part of the World After Covid project. Each episode, four responses are selected. This time, the conversation covers themes of sympathy and compassion, self-distancing, perspective-taking, and learning from pandemics in the midst of the pandemic. Igor wonders what being empathetic and compassionate even looks like online, and Charles ponders lessons not learned from past global catastrophes.

Featuring:
Roxane Cohen Silver, Social-Personality Psychologist and Adversity Research Trailblazer
Laura Carstensen, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and Founding Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity
Edouard Machery, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London

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Igor and Charles share and discuss responses from 57 of the world's leading behavioral and social scientists, collected as part of the World After Covid project. Each episode, four responses are selected. This time, the conversation covers themes of sympathy and compassion, self-distancing, perspective-taking, and learning from pandemics in the midst of the pandemic. Igor wonders what being empathetic and compassionate even looks like online, and Charles ponders lessons not learned from past global catastrophes.

Featuring:
Roxane Cohen Silver, Social-Personality Psychologist and Adversity Research Trailblazer
Laura Carstensen, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and Founding Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity
Edouard Machery, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London

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