“…By defining humility as an interpersonal quality that plays out in a social context (in line with Owens et al, 2013), we take a behavioral view of humility as a personality characteristic, which view suggests that consistent "behavioral acts are the building blocks [and core indicators] of traits, and the stronger an individual's propensity toward a trait, the more frequently and intensely the individual enacts a corresponding set of behaviors" (Grant, Gino, & Hofmann, 2011, p. 530; see also Buss & Craik, 1983;Fleeson, 2001). As humility has qualitatively been shown to be a malleable attribute that is subject to development or deterioration and that can fluctuate according to life experience (Owens, 2009a;Vera & Rodriguez-Lopez, 2004), humility is akin to what personality psychologists call a "modifiable trait" that people can "increase dramatically by practic[e]" (Dunning, 1995(Dunning, , p. 1302; see also Duval & Silvia, 2002). This is in line with Dweck, Hong, and Chiu's (1993) conception of trait incrementalism, or the belief that personal attributes are malleable.…”