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The Whys and Whens of Personal Uncertainty

The Whys and Whens of Personal Uncertainty Psychological Inquiry, 20: 218–220, 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/10478400903333437 COMMENTARIES David De Cremer Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Constantine Sedikides Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Van den Bos (this issue) argues for the regulatory tions that the thought of your being uncertain arouses in importance of personal uncertainty. He defines per- you” and “what you think physically will happen to you sonal uncertainty as “a subjective sense of doubt or in- as you feel uncertain” (p. 204). This manipulation was stability in self-views, world-views, or the interrelation originally designed, in part, to disentangle the relative between the two” and as involving “the implicit and contribution of personal uncertainty versus existential explicit feelings and other subjective reactions people terror on adherence to sociocultural norms, values, or experience as a result of being uncertain about them- worldviews. As such, this operationalization of per- selves” (p. 198). Given that personal uncertainty is sonal uncertainty is suited to generic concerns about the uncomfortable or aversive, people are motivated to re- social world, and that is why we (De Cremer, Brebels, duce it. They do so in a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychological Inquiry Taylor & Francis

The Whys and Whens of Personal Uncertainty

De Cremer, David; Sedikides, Constantine
Psychological Inquiry , Volume 20 (4): 3 – Dec 11, 2009
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Psychological Inquiry, 20: 218–220, 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/10478400903333437 COMMENTARIES David De Cremer Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Constantine Sedikides Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Van den Bos (this issue) argues for the regulatory tions that the thought of your being uncertain arouses in importance of personal uncertainty. He defines per- you” and “what you think physically will happen to you sonal uncertainty as “a subjective sense of doubt or in- as you feel uncertain” (p. 204). This manipulation was stability in self-views, world-views, or the interrelation originally designed, in part, to disentangle the relative between the two” and as involving “the implicit and contribution of personal uncertainty versus existential explicit feelings and other subjective reactions people terror on adherence to sociocultural norms, values, or experience as a result of being uncertain about them- worldviews. As such, this operationalization of per- selves” (p. 198). Given that personal uncertainty is sonal uncertainty is suited to generic concerns about the uncomfortable or aversive, people are motivated to re- social world, and that is why we (De Cremer, Brebels, duce it. They do so in a

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