Getting humble about intellectual humility

Over the past 20 years, intellectual humility research has blossomed. Ballantyne's (2021) target article argues that intellectual humility research is stymied by disagreements over assessment, terminology, and how to accommodate certain findings with others. In this commentary, I make a case that these struggles are a typical part of a broader research cycle. I use the General Aggression Model as an example of when researchers applied intellectual humility to develop an overarching theory of aggression and how doing so supercharged aggression research. I conclude by encouraging intellectual humility researchers to come together and formulate a general theory of intellectual humility.