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Wisdom operates through a situated metacognitive architecture where sociocultural folk theories provide strategies for action, and perspectival metacognition regulates their context-sensitive application to support sound judgment under uncertainty. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Integrate separate research tracks on cultural folk theories and cognitive mechanisms into a unified, situated metacognitive model of wise judgment under uncertainty.

August 19, 2026Annual Review of PsychologyOpen Access

Navigating the Unknown: The Sociocultural and Metacognitive Architecture of Wisdom

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IGIgor GrossmannUniversity of Waterloo NWNic M. WeststrateUniversity of Illinois Chicago

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Review demonstrates how situated metacognition and cultural folk theories interact to guide wise judgment, suggesting new frameworks for assessing and cultivating wisdom.

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Integrate separate research tracks on cultural folk theories and cognitive mechanisms into a unified, situated metacognitive model of wise judgment under uncertainty.
Reviewed literature spanning cultural folk theories, exemplars, narratives, heuristics, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying sound judgment.
Analyzed the integration of perspectival metacognition with situated assessment methods and wisdom development interventions.
Wisdom relies on an interaction where folk theories provide candidate strategies and perspectival metacognition regulates their context-sensitive selection.
Wisdom-related processes link directly to improved emotional balance, relational well-being, cooperation, and reduced ideological polarization.
Situated assessment models resolve key measurement trade-offs by overcoming the psychometric limitations of global self-report scales.

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Grossmann et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8562eb03308d306e2d5e5f https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020226-034154

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Review demonstrates how situated metacognition and cultural folk theories interact to guide wise judgment, suggesting new frameworks for assessing and cultivating wisdom.

Navigating the Unknown: The Sociocultural and Metacognitive Architecture of Wisdom

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Navigating the Unknown: The Sociocultural and Metacognitive Architecture of Wisdom

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