Larnak1 t1_jed1iib wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:01 AM

Reply to comment by Creative_soja in People who are averse to uncertainty have a strong motivation to mitigate uncertainty, which also affects semantic representations of different concepts and related neural activity patterns by Creative_soja

Would that affect ability or speed of associations?

I could imagine that typical associations occur due to being grouped together and being activated at the same time. Mitigating that in an attempt to reduce uncertainty would then potentially reduce the ability to quickly associate similar concepts with each other.

Creative_soja OP t1_jed22a7 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:06 AM

I think so too but the study doesn't mention that. It would be interesting future research