India, April 24 -- If you gracefully admit that you may be wrong, you may have an edge in decoding how others feel, and maybe even figure out how to settle the disagreement quicker. This quality is called intellectual humility. A study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin examined intellectual humility and how, when one inculcates this quality, they respond better to others' opinions that are different from theirs, with compassion rather than heated stress and hostility. So, in other words, being intellectually humble means you're less likely to get into pointless arguments with your friends, peers, or colleagues over small things.

In a way, when you are open-minded, you begin to read the room and the people in it ...