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Searching for answers in an uncertain world: Meaning threats lead to increased working memory capacity

The Meaning Maintenance Model posits that individuals seek to resolve uncertainty by searching for patterns in the environment, yet little is known about how this is accomplished. Four studies investigated whether uncertainty has an effect on people’s cognitive functioning. In particular, we investi...

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Autores principales: Randles, Daniel, Benjamin, Rachele, Martens, Jason P., Heine, Steven J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6169904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30281622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204640