Causal Uncertainty & Related Goal Structures

因果不确定性

• 批准号: 9709541
• 负责人: Gifford Weary
• 金额: $ 18.19万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9709541&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Causal; Uncertainty; & Related; Goal

People are motivated for survival purposes to develop cognitive understandings of the world that are as accurate as possible. When their subjective sense of accurate understanding becomes strained (e.g., by unexpected events), people typically respond with an alerting response to the source of the uncertainty and they take some action to improve their state of knowledge. It is proposed that the most important source of a motivation for uncertainty reduction is one's potential failure to understand the relatively unchanging causes of events. When a person is uncertain about their ability to identify cause and effect relationships, it is expected to create doubt about one's perception of reality and one's ability to exercise effective control. The current research focuses on the concept of causal uncertainty beliefs. The experiments examine cognitive processes that are associated with causal uncertainty beliefs, and some of the motivational consequences of such beliefs. This research has important implications for understanding people's responses to adverse circumstances, the cognitive bases of human motivation, and individual differences in social information processing.

人们出于生存的目的，会尽可能准确地认知世界。当他们对准确理解的主观感觉变得紧张时（例如，由于意外事件），人们通常对不确定性的来源做出警报响应，并采取一些行动来改善他们的知识状态。有人提出，减少不确定性的动机的最重要的来源是一个人的潜在的失败，以了解事件的相对不变的原因。当一个人不确定自己识别因果关系的能力时，人们就会怀疑他对现实的看法和他行使有效控制的能力。目前的研究主要集中在因果不确定性信念的概念。这些实验研究了与因果不确定性信念相关的认知过程，以及这些信念的一些动机后果。这项研究对于理解人们对不利环境的反应，人类动机的认知基础以及社会信息处理的个体差异具有重要意义。