Interactive minds: A facilitative setting for wisdom-related performance?

Two goals guided the present study: to develop ecologically relevant and functional interactive-minds settings for the assessment of wisdom-related performance and to investigate whether and under which conditions such settings would facilitate higher levels of wisdom-related performance. After baseline assessment of wisdom-related performance, a sample of 122 natural dyads (244 participants), ranging in age from 20 to 70 years, were randomly assigned to 5 experimental conditions. These-conditions varied in the degree to which they were judged to be ecologically relevant and functional and involved the interaction of minds. It was found that performance settings that were judged to be ecologically relevant and functional and provided for actual or ''virtual'' (internal) interaction of minds increased wisdom-related performance levels by 1 SD. In addition, older adults profited more than younger adults From 1 setting.