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Larnak1 t1_jed1iib wrote

Reply to comment by Creative_soja in People who are averse to uncertainty have a strong motivation to mitigate uncertainty, which also affects semantic representations of different concepts and related neural activity patterns by Creative_soja

Would that affect ability or speed of associations?

I could imagine that typical associations occur due to being grouped together and being activated at the same time. Mitigating that in an attempt to reduce uncertainty would then potentially reduce the ability to quickly associate similar concepts with each other.

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Creative_soja OP t1_jed0oc5 wrote

Reply to comment by lovethebee_bethebee in People who are averse to uncertainty have a strong motivation to mitigate uncertainty, which also affects semantic representations of different concepts and related neural activity patterns by Creative_soja

It is analogous to discrete vs continuous color spectrum. Discrete spectrum clearly separates all colors, whereas continuous spectrum has gradual transition.

My simplistic understanding is that people who dont like uncertainty tend to remember concepts as discrete as possible to avoid mixing different concepts. This helps them in reducing memory errors in distinguishing different concepts. However, this also reduces their ability to generalize, meaning they fail to see similarities among different concepts.

The study doesn't establish any causality. So, it is unclear whether how you remember information determines a dislike for uncertainty or vice versa.

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luminous_beings t1_jecymf0 wrote

Reply to People who are averse to uncertainty have a strong motivation to mitigate uncertainty, which also affects semantic representations of different concepts and related neural activity patterns by Creative_soja

My daughter is one of these people. She absolutely cannot stand any sort of anticipation at all. She can’t even watch a movie without knowing precisely what’s going to happen. She’s been like this her whole life. Christmas and birthdays are a nightmare

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Creative_soja OP t1_jecwr1j wrote

Reply to People who are averse to uncertainty have a strong motivation to mitigate uncertainty, which also affects semantic representations of different concepts and related neural activity patterns by Creative_soja

From the article

"Knowledge about the world is stored in our semantic representations (that is, concepts that correspond to our knowledge about and experiences with the world). These semantic representations are structured following a similarity principle, such that the semantic representations of similar concepts are grouped closer together in neural and psychological space, and those of dissimilar concepts are farther apart1. Because stimuli often activate more than one concept, there is always some uncertainty when a person needs to identify which concept to retrieve. This mapping presents an ongoing challenge for those who are averse to uncertainty. One way to reduce this uncertainty is to separate the semantic representations that are activated by the same stimulus as much as possible in representational space. We posited that people structure their semantic representations in ways that satisfy their psychological needs, including the desire to reduce uncertainty. On the basis of classic work in cognitive science2, we hypothesized that to achieve this uncertainty-reduction goal, people who are averse to uncertainty should exhibit separated semantic representations, which would make each representation more easily identifiable."

Layman's language by the editorial team

"People who are averse to uncertainty usually have a strong motivation to mitigate uncertainty. In this work, the authors suggest that this motivation to decrease uncertainty might also affect semantic representations and related neural activity patterns. The reported findings are a fascinating demonstration of how individual differences can fundamentally affect our cognition"

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You clearly haven't read anything I've said.

Not everyone who doesn't agree with you is for everything you're against.

I told you that I didn't need to tell you the problems with the Republican party. You have stated all the things wrong with the Republican party.

Wanting to protect myself from having my second amendment rights from being infringed and wanting to be protected from the Federal government under the 10th amendment IN ALL APPLICABLE CASES doesn't make me a Republican supporter.

I'm a Libertarian with extra steps.

The people need to be able to be accurately represented. People in California live and believe differently than in Texas and the only way this Country functions is when both are left to represent themselves with what is left to them under the 10th.

That doesn't mean I'm supporting any of the things you are talking about and I would never cast a vote towards any of that. I will, however, still respect those states' decisions with how they want to be represented in their own state.

It's none of my business what some other people in another state think, believe, or how they vote. Just like I think it's none of my business what someone does in their bedroom with whoever they choose. That doesn't mean they can't think differently and to force them into submission is un-American.

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