Kees van den Bos
Tell me about it.This article is about how people make sense of life and focuses on one core threat that may play a pivotal role in people’s lives as existential meaning makers: personal uncertainty.
But how about you? Or, more to the point [mine], how do you go about defending what you are certain about when others are just as certain that you are wrong. Starting with, say, those newspaper headlines.
That's how it works alright. Pick a point in history. Then pick a particular community embedded in a particular culture at that time. Lo and behold there will be a moral narrative and a political agenda that may or may not be ensconced further in a religious denomination.Personal uncertainty is defined as the aversive feeling that you experience when you feel uncertain about yourself. Drawing on an uncertainty management perspective, it is hypothesized that cultural worldviews may provide a means to cope with personal uncertainty and that this may explain why under conditions of personal uncertainty people may respond especially positively to events that bolster their cultural norms and values and particularly negatively to persons and events that violate these norms and values.
Only that was far more the case "back then". Back then? Back before such communication technologies as radio and television and movies and newspapers and the internet brought men and women around the globe into contact with all of the truly vast and diverse One True Paths of other people.
What then? You think this but now you are aware that others think something altogether different. So, does that prompt you to expand your own horizons...or prompt you all the more to cling self-righteously to your own local dogmas.
So, what's your own "uncertainty management model"? And how is it able to confront and to rebut the arguments of those like me? As for terror management, that depends on just how threatened you are by those who do not accept all the things that you yourself are very, very, very certain about.Findings are reviewed that support the uncertainty management model’s predictions. Furthermore, the uncertainty management model may explain why terror management theory is not always about terror, but (at least partly) about personal uncertainty. Finally, conceptual implications, conflicting findings, and loose ends are noted, and testable hypotheses are formulated, which may further insight into the psychological processes pertaining to sense-making, worldview defense, and self-regulation.
You know the ones.
https://ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=176529