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Uncertainty, Belongingness, and Four Needs for Meaning

Uncertainty, Belongingness, and Four Needs for Meaning Psychological Inquiry, 20: 249–251, 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/10478400903333544 Tyler F. Stillman and Roy F. Baumeister Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida The Van den Bos research program is persuasive The idea that uncertainty promotes meaningless- in demonstrating that when uncertainty arises, people ness is an untested presumption in the Van den Bos cling to their cultural worldview. That is, uncertainty analysis. However, we expect that uncertainty would increases worldview defense. Why? The assumption decrease meaningfulness on the basis of the four needs is that personal uncertainty indicates that life is mean- for meaning. In particular, uncertainty may have an ingless and absurd, and defending one’s worldview especially strong effect on purposiveness, because un- allows the sense that life is meaningful to prevail. In certainty about one’s current actions is likely to re- other words, people manage feelings of uncertainty, via duce the sense that those actions are contributing to a worldview defense, to make sense of life. Indeed, Van future outcome. Similarly, it seems likely that uncer- den Bos (this issue) proposes that uncertainty man- tainty would detract from efficacy, or the feeling that agement is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychological Inquiry Taylor & Francis

Uncertainty, Belongingness, and Four Needs for Meaning

Stillman, Tyler F.; Baumeister, Roy F.
Psychological Inquiry , Volume 20 (4): 3 – Dec 11, 2009
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Psychological Inquiry, 20: 249–251, 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/10478400903333544 Tyler F. Stillman and Roy F. Baumeister Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida The Van den Bos research program is persuasive The idea that uncertainty promotes meaningless- in demonstrating that when uncertainty arises, people ness is an untested presumption in the Van den Bos cling to their cultural worldview. That is, uncertainty analysis. However, we expect that uncertainty would increases worldview defense. Why? The assumption decrease meaningfulness on the basis of the four needs is that personal uncertainty indicates that life is mean- for meaning. In particular, uncertainty may have an ingless and absurd, and defending one’s worldview especially strong effect on purposiveness, because un- allows the sense that life is meaningful to prevail. In certainty about one’s current actions is likely to re- other words, people manage feelings of uncertainty, via duce the sense that those actions are contributing to a worldview defense, to make sense of life. Indeed, Van future outcome. Similarly, it seems likely that uncer- den Bos (this issue) proposes that uncertainty man- tainty would detract from efficacy, or the feeling that agement is

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