The Uncertain Mind: Individual Differences in Facing the Unknown

By R. Sorrentino, C. Roney. 2002

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Uncertain Self in a Changing World: A Foundation for Radicalisation, Populism, and Autocratic Leadership (2020, background): “Other social psychological literatures invoke self-related uncertainty (see Arkin et al., 2010; Hogg et al., 2013; Križan & Gibbons, 2014; Kruglanski & Fishman, 2009; Kruglanski et al., 2006; Sorrentino & Roney, 1999; Van den Bos, 2009).”
• Exploring lay uncertainty about an environmental health risk (2007, background): “Findings also support previous proposals that “not knowing” is a component of perceived uncertainty (Einsiedel and Thorne, 1999; Sorrentino and Roney, 2000).”
• Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. (2003, background): “Thus, epistemic needs affect the style and manner by which individuals seek to overcome uncertainty and the fear of the unknown (e.g., Kruglanski, 1989; Rokeach, 1960; Sorrentino & Roney, 2000; Wilson, 1973c).”
• Avoiding versus seeking: the relationship of information seeking to avoidance, blunting, coping, dissonance, and related concepts. (2005, background): “But as Sorrentino [18] points out, much of the literature on uncertainty reduction emphasizes either the benefits (particularly long-term) of having new information (e.”
• Communication and Uncertainty Management. (2001, background): “Uncertainty appraisals may be situational (Brashers, Neidig, Haas, et al., 2000) or dispositional (e.g., uncertainty orientation, see Sorrentino & Roney, 2000).”
• Relationships between measures of I- and D-type curiosity, ambiguity tolerance, and need for closure: An initial test of the wanting-liking model of information-seeking (2010, background): “Thus, both dimensions of NFC may involve being oriented more towards maintaining clarity rather than obtaining new information (Hodson & Sorrentino, 1999; Sorrentino & Roney, 2000).”
• What drives people to carpool? Explaining carpooling intention from the perspectives of carpooling passengers and drivers (2018, background): “Especially when people face situations of uncertainty, individual differences regarding trust in others have been shown to play an important role when making decisions (Acar-Burkay, Fennis, & Warlop, 2014; Sorrentino & Roney, 2000).”
• The Influence of the Ethos of Conflict on Israeli Jews' Interpretation of Jewish—Palestinian Encounters (2009, background): “Returning to the discussion about the ideological mode of thinking, it has been suggested that this mode is characterized by the inability to endure ambiguity or uncertainty as well as by mental rigidity, closure, and dogmatism (Rokeach 1960; Sidanius 1985; Sorrentino and Roney 2000).”
• Managing Uncertainty During Collaborative Problem Solving in Elementary School Teams: The Role of Peer Influence in Robotics Engineering Activity (2014, background): “Much research on uncertainty management has conceived of it as an individual endeavor (see, for instance, Sorrentino & Roney, 2000; Webster & Kruglanski, 1994).”
• Psychological Flexibility as a Fundamental Aspect of Health (2010, background): “Additional evidence for openness and curiosity being relevant to flexible thinking and behavior stems from work on opposing tendencies such as intolerance of uncertainty and the need for closure (Kruglanski & Webster, 1996; Sorrentino & Roney, 2000).”