Intellectual Humility and Forgiveness of Religious Conflict

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Publication Source

Journal of Psychology and Theology

Volume Number

43

Issue Number

4

First Page

255

Last Page

262

ISSN

0091-6471

Abstract

Intellectual humility (IH) involves an accurate view of one's intellectual strengths and weaknesses as well as the ability to negotiate different ideas in an interpersonally respectful manner. The current study examined how IH and perceptions of IH affect responses to a religious conflict. Participants (N = 200) were undergraduate students who filled out online questionnaires about their experience of a religious conflict. Participants rated (a) their own IH toward the offender's religious beliefs and values, (b) their perception of the offender's IH toward the participants' religious beliefs and values, and (c) their own general humility. Next, they reported their forgiveness of the offender following a religious conflict. Both victim IH and perceived IH of the offender were positively associated with forgiveness, even when controlling for general humility. We conclude by discussing limitations and areas for future research.

Keywords

Close Relationships, Personality Judgment, Scale

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