Philosophers and psychological scientists have converged on the idea that wisdom involves
certain aspects of thinking (eg, intellectual humility, recognition of uncertainty and change) …

The study of authoritarianism and other personality theories of political attitudes is often
dismissed a priori as an illegitimate, value-laden attempt to correlate general psychological …

Uncertainty and affect are fundamental and interrelated aspects of the human condition.
Uncertainty is often associated with negative affect, but in some circumstances, it is …

Terror management theory posits that human awareness of the inevitability of death exerts a
profound influence on diverse aspects of human thought, emotion, motivation, and behavior …

Immigration policies and the treatment of immigrants and refugees are contentious issues
involving uncertainty and unease. The media may take advantage of this uncertainty to …

The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of
researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability …

The authors outline a psychological model of extremism and analyze violent extremism as a
special case of it. Their significance quest theory identifies 3 general drivers of violent …

The present studies examined the hypothesis that loss of personal significance fuels
extremism via the need for cognitive closure. Situations of significance loss—those that …

In this chapter, I review the literature on motivated identity construction, drawing together
insights and evidence from diverse theoretical perspectives, and I propose the foundations …

Entropy, a concept derived from thermodynamics and information theory, describes the
amount of uncertainty and disorder within a system. Self-organizing systems engage in a …