Wisdom Course Bibliography

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• Ardelt, M. (1997). "Wisdom and Life Satisfaction in Old Age." The Journals of Gerontology 52B: 15-27.

• Baltes, P. B. and A. M. Freund (2002). The Intermarriage of Wisdom and Selective Optimization with Compensation. Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived. C. L. M. Keyes and J. Haidt. Washington, DC, American Psychological Association: 249-271.

• Baltes, P. B. and J. Smith (1990). Toward a psychology of wisdom and its ontogenesis. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• Birren, J. E. S., Cheryl M. (2005). Wisdom in History. A Handbook of Wisdom. R. J. J. Sternberg. Cambridge, Cambridge UP: 3-31.

• Boyd, R. R., Peter J. (2009). "Culture and the evolution of human cooperation." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364: 3281-3288.

• Pali Canon. (2006). The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving. Early Buddhist Discourses. J. J. Holder. Indianapolis, Hackett.

• Carstensen, L. (2006). "The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development." Science 312: 1913-1915.

• Clayton, V. and J. E. Birren (1980). The Devleopment of Wisdom Across the Life Span: A re-examination of an ancient topic. New York, Academic Press.

• Edgerton, R. (1992). Sick Societies, Free Press.

• Epictetus. "Enchiridion." Retrieved August 19, 2010, from Internet Classics Archive.

• Estes, D. (2005). Proverbs. Handbook on the Wisdom Books and Psalms. D. Estes. Grand Rapids, MI, Baker Academic: 213-269.

• Haidt, J. (2001). "The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgement." Psychological Review 108(4): 814-834.

• Haidt, J. (2006). Chapter 9: Divinity with or without God. The Happiness Hypothesis: finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. New York, Basic Books: 181-211.

• Hall, S. S. (2010). Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience. New York, Alfred A. Knopf.

• Kunzman, U. B., Paul (2005). The Psychology of Wisdom: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges. A Handbook of Wisdom: psychological perspectives. R. J. Sternberg, Jennifer. New York, Cambridge University Press: 110-139.

• Labouvie-Vief, G. (1990). Wisdom as intergrated thoguht: Historical and devleopmental perspectives. Wisdom: Its Nature, Origins, and Development. R. J. Sternberg. Cambridge, Cambridge UP: 52-83.

• Long, A. A. (2002). Chapter 1: Epictetus in His Time and Place. Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life. A. A. Long. Oxford, Clarendon Press.

• Osbeck, L. M. R., Daniel N. (2005). Philosophical Theories of Wisdom. A Handbook of wisdom: psychological perspectives. R. J. Sternberg, Jennifer. Cambridge, Cambridge UP: 61-83.

• Ricard, M. (2003). Chapter 6: The Alchemy of Suffering. Happiness: a guide to developing; life's most important skill. M. Ricard. New York, Little, Brown and Company: 59-80.

• Ricard, M. (2003). Chapter 7: The Viels of the Ego. Happiness: a guide to developing; life's most important skill. M. Ricard. New York, Little, Brown and Company: 80-97.

• Robinson, D. (1990). Wisdom through the ages. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• Sosis, R. (2004). "The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual." American Scientist 92: 166-172.

• Stanovich, K. E. (2001). "The Rationality of Educating for Wisdom." Educational Psychologist 36(4): 247-251.

• Sternberg, R. J. (1990). Wisdom and its relations to intelligence and creativity. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• Wilson, D. (2002). Chapter 4: The Secular Utility of Relgion. Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society. D. Wilson. Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 125-160.

• Wilson, T. (2002). Strangers to Ourselves, Belknap.