Uncertainty Makes Me Emotional: Uncertainty as an Elicitor and Modulator of Emotional States
dc.contributor.author | Morriss, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Tupitsa, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Dodd, HF | |
dc.contributor.author | Hirsch, CR | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-10T12:47:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-03-08 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-11-10T12:16:51Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Uncertainty and emotion are an inevitable part of everyday life and play a vital role in mental health. Yet, our understanding of how uncertainty and emotion interact is limited. Here, an online survey was conducted (n = 231) to examine whether uncertainty evokes and modulates a range of negative and positive emotions. The data show that uncertainty is predominantly associated with negative emotional states such as fear/anxiety. However, uncertainty was also found to modulate a variety of other negative (i.e., sadness/upset, anger/frustration, and confusion) and positive (i.e., surprise/interest and excited/enthusiastic) emotional states, depending on the valence of an anticipated outcome (i.e., negative and positive) and the sub parameter of uncertainty (i.e., risk and ambiguity). Uncertainty increased the intensity of negative emotional states and decreased the intensity of positive emotional states. These findings support prior research suggesting that uncertainty is aversive and associated with negative emotional states such as fear and anxiety. However, the findings also revealed that uncertainty is involved in eliciting and modulating a wide array of emotional phenomena beyond fear and anxiety. This study highlights an opportunity for further study of how uncertainty and emotion interactions are conceptualised generally and in relation to mental health. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | BIAL Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 777025- | |
dc.format.medium | Electronic-eCollection | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 13, article 777025 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.777025 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 149/20 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/R01145/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/131731 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (Dodd, Helen F) | |
dc.identifier | ScopusID: 26667614900 (Dodd, Helen F) | |
dc.identifier | ResearcherID: L-1430-2019 (Dodd, Helen F) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35350739 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://osf.io/yr276 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2022 Morriss, Tupitsa, Dodd and Hirsch. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | en_GB |
dc.subject | ambiguity | en_GB |
dc.subject | emotion | en_GB |
dc.subject | negative | en_GB |
dc.subject | positive | en_GB |
dc.subject | risk | en_GB |
dc.subject | uncertainty | en_GB |
dc.title | Uncertainty Makes Me Emotional: Uncertainty as an Elicitor and Modulator of Emotional States | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-10T12:47:04Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | |
exeter.article-number | ARTN 777025 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | Switzerland | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Frontiers Media via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability Statement: The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. The names of the repository/repositories and accession number(s) can be found below: All data and analyses have been made publicly available on the Open Science Framework and can be accessed at https://osf.io/yr276. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1664-1078 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Frontiers in Psychology | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Front Psychol, 13 | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-02-02 | |
dc.rights.license | CC BY | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-03-08 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-11-10T12:44:27Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-11-10T12:47:14Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-03-08 |
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