How uncertainty builds anxiety: experts named the main reasons
It has long been known that uncertainty causes severe anxiety and fear in humans.
Nevertheless, what does this have to do with?
How uncertainty and fear are related
In a recent stusy published in the journal Computational Psychiatry, researchers in the Department of Psychology at the University of California,
Davis, delve deeper into the causes of fear of uncertainty.
Scientists believe that when you expect something bad, there can be different ways of perceiving it.
For example, if there is a countdown to an electric shock, your anxiety will be lower than if the electric shock can strike you at any time.
That is, if a person knows for sure that something will happen at a specific time, the person’s sense of danger will be lower than if there is uncertainty.
This is probably due to the evolution of the human brain, which has learned to monitor the level of danger.
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