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Welcome! I’m Igor Grossmann, Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo.
I study how people navigate life’s most difficult decisions, and how we can do so wisely. My work focuses on wise reasoning (including intellectual humility) across cultures and time, with projects on cultural change, forecasting societal trends, and human–AI decision-making.
Shaped by firsthand experience of societal upheaval, I’m driven to understand how humans find wisdom amid uncertainty. My research has appeared in Science, Nature Human Behaviour, and PNAS, and reaches broader audiences through research, public writing, and the On Wisdom podcast.
I direct the Wisdom and Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo, lead international research collaboratives, and work with scholars in philosophy, economics, and computer science.