People with a higher level of intellectual humility are less likely to take fake news headlines at face value, according to new research published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The new study provides evidence of a causal link between intellectual humility and the desire to investigate political misinformation. Intellectual humility refers to the ability to recognize the limits of one’s knowledge and to accept the possibility of being wrong. People with a high level of intellectually humility tend to be less hostile towards their sociopolitical rivals and more motivated to lear…
