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Description: Wisdom is the intellectual virtue of considering all possible factors related to a problem, especially relevant individuals’ interests and perspectives. Consistently, wisdom advising is advising individuals in distress after considering different factors, especially different individuals’ interests and perspectives. Previous studies generally adopted a third-person perspective wisdom-advising paradigm. However, Martin Buber argues that there is a fundamental difference between the I-He/She relationship and the I-thou relationship, such that the latter is more equal and authentic than the former. We predicted that second-person perspective advising may be easier for the individuals to derive meanings from their own life experience and sympathize with the advised person, and thus enhance general wisdom conveyed through advising. On the other hand, second-person perspective advising may also make advisors more self-centered and more self-defensive, and thus less wise advising on the problem, as suggested by previous studies on perspective effect on wise reasoning (Grossmann, Brienza, & Bobocel, 2017; Grossmann & Kross, 2014). In this research project, an innovative second-person perspective wisdom-advising paradigm is proposed to investigate the potential differences in neural activity between the second-person perspective and third-person perspective wisdom-advising. Moreover, we will investigate the correlation between General Wisdom conveyed through the second-person perspective advising and the advisors’ Personal Wisdom.