Wisdom predicts emotional intelligence and wise reasoning

In a recent article in The Journal of Positive Psychology, Schneider et al. (2023) examined the relations of emotional intelligence (EI) on wise reasoning and three-dimensional wisdom. They concluded that only the managing emotions branch of EI predicted wise reasoning, contingent upon epistemic humility and need for cognition in Study 1 (N = 99) and epistemic humility, empathic concern, and perspective taking in Study 2 (N = 150). Unfortunately, this article has several problems, including (a) the mischaracterization of three-dimensional wisdom as knowledge rather than personality qualities, (b) mediating variables whose concepts and measures partially overlapped with wise reasoning and wisdom, and (c) some problems with computing the three-dimensional wisdom scale (3D-WS) in Study 2. I tested alternative path models, which showed that three-dimensional wisdom predicted EI and wise reasoning, whereas EI by itself did not predict wise reasoning. Wise reasoning might depend more on personal wisdom than EI.