Probability Expression for Changeable and Changeless Uncertainties: An Implicit Test
‘Everything changes and nothing remains still.’ We designed three implicit studies to understand how people react or adapt to a rapidly changing world by testing whether verbal probability is better in expressing changeable uncertainty while numerical probability is better in expressing unchangeable...
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| description | ‘Everything changes and nothing remains still.’ We designed three implicit studies to understand how people react or adapt to a rapidly changing world by testing whether verbal probability is better in expressing changeable uncertainty while numerical probability is better in expressing unchangeable uncertainty. We found that the ‘verbal-changeable’ combination in implicit tasks was more compatible than the ‘numerical-changeable’ combination. Furthermore, the ‘numerical-changeless’ combination was more compatible than the ‘verbal-changeless’ combination. Thus, a novel feature called ‘changeability’ was proposed to describe the changeable nature of verbal probability. However, numerical probability is a better carrier of changeless uncertainty than verbal probability. These results extend the domain of probability predictions and enrich our general understanding of communication with verbal and numerical probabilities. Given that the world around us is constantly changing, this ‘changeability’ feature may play a major role in preparing for uncertainty. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9c3c27e45ff8471b987b85082d9679d42022-12-21T23:29:02ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782014-11-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.01313113430Probability Expression for Changeable and Changeless Uncertainties: An Implicit TestYun eWang0Yun eWang1Xue-Lei eDu2Xue-Lei eDu3Li-Lin eRao4Shu eLi5Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences‘Everything changes and nothing remains still.’ We designed three implicit studies to understand how people react or adapt to a rapidly changing world by testing whether verbal probability is better in expressing changeable uncertainty while numerical probability is better in expressing unchangeable uncertainty. We found that the ‘verbal-changeable’ combination in implicit tasks was more compatible than the ‘numerical-changeable’ combination. Furthermore, the ‘numerical-changeless’ combination was more compatible than the ‘verbal-changeless’ combination. Thus, a novel feature called ‘changeability’ was proposed to describe the changeable nature of verbal probability. However, numerical probability is a better carrier of changeless uncertainty than verbal probability. These results extend the domain of probability predictions and enrich our general understanding of communication with verbal and numerical probabilities. Given that the world around us is constantly changing, this ‘changeability’ feature may play a major role in preparing for uncertainty.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01313/fullverbal probabilitynumerical probabilitychangeable uncertaintyunchangeable uncertaintychangeability feature |
| spellingShingle | Yun eWang Yun eWang Xue-Lei eDu Xue-Lei eDu Li-Lin eRao Shu eLi Probability Expression for Changeable and Changeless Uncertainties: An Implicit Test Frontiers in Psychology verbal probability numerical probability changeable uncertainty unchangeable uncertainty changeability feature |
| title | Probability Expression for Changeable and Changeless Uncertainties: An Implicit Test |
| title_full | Probability Expression for Changeable and Changeless Uncertainties: An Implicit Test |
| title_fullStr | Probability Expression for Changeable and Changeless Uncertainties: An Implicit Test |
| title_full_unstemmed | Probability Expression for Changeable and Changeless Uncertainties: An Implicit Test |
| title_short | Probability Expression for Changeable and Changeless Uncertainties: An Implicit Test |
| title_sort | probability expression for changeable and changeless uncertainties an implicit test |
| topic | verbal probability numerical probability changeable uncertainty unchangeable uncertainty changeability feature |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01313/full |
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