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Uncertainty Middle-Management: Personal Certainty Is Not the Core Existential Motive

Uncertainty Middle-Management: Personal Certainty Is Not the Core Existential Motive Psychological Inquiry, 20: 235–239, 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/10478400903333502 Uncertainty Middle-Management: Personal Certainty Is Not the Core Existential Motive Clay Routledge and Jacob Juhl Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota Daniel Sullivan Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Research in the field of social psychology has long their place within it ...too much personal uncertainty demonstrated that people adopt attitudes and engage threatens the meaning of existence” and “Uncertainty in a variety of behaviors that promote feelings of cer- ...is generally aversive because it is ultimately asso- tainty (see Arkin, Oleson, & Carroll, in press). Van ciated with reduced control over one’s life” (p. 200). den Bos (this issue) proposes that seeking personal From such statements one is left rather uncertain as to certainty is the core existential motive, or at least that what particular motive Van den Bos believes to be at the uncertainty management model would be the most the heart of uncertainty management. Regardless of the profitable basis for social psychological research on answer, it appears that Van den Bos would agree that existential concerns. Specifically, he asserts that “there http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychological Inquiry Taylor & Francis

Uncertainty Middle-Management: Personal Certainty Is Not the Core Existential Motive

Routledge, Clay; Juhl, Jacob; Sullivan, Daniel
Psychological Inquiry , Volume 20 (4): 5 – Dec 11, 2009
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Psychological Inquiry, 20: 235–239, 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1047-840X print / 1532-7965 online DOI: 10.1080/10478400903333502 Uncertainty Middle-Management: Personal Certainty Is Not the Core Existential Motive Clay Routledge and Jacob Juhl Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota Daniel Sullivan Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Research in the field of social psychology has long their place within it ...too much personal uncertainty demonstrated that people adopt attitudes and engage threatens the meaning of existence” and “Uncertainty in a variety of behaviors that promote feelings of cer- ...is generally aversive because it is ultimately asso- tainty (see Arkin, Oleson, & Carroll, in press). Van ciated with reduced control over one’s life” (p. 200). den Bos (this issue) proposes that seeking personal From such statements one is left rather uncertain as to certainty is the core existential motive, or at least that what particular motive Van den Bos believes to be at the uncertainty management model would be the most the heart of uncertainty management. Regardless of the profitable basis for social psychological research on answer, it appears that Van den Bos would agree that existential concerns. Specifically, he asserts that “there

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