Abstract
The article reveals the concept of “uncertainty” in the context of culture, science and practice. The notions of uncertainty in different schools and concepts in the field of philosophy and psychology are compared. The hypotheses of the uncertainty phenomenon are explained in detail. The article describes a clinical analysis of five types of subjective attitude to uncertainty, based on the research of scientists: M. K. Mamardashvili, T. E. Sokolova and other experts in the field of subjective attitude to uncertainty. At the end of the article, the data of the scientific interview is given. The article also presents research by modern scientists: Byrne, Peters, Willis, Phan, Worthy (2020), who demonstrated in their research the psychological States of respondents with high uncertainty. The article goes on to describe in more detail the types of research that demonstrate the concepts of acute and moderate stress, tolerance, and other important factors that influence attitudes to uncertainty. The following describes a study aimed at disaster risk reduction, researchers: Schueller, Booth, Fleming, Abad (2020), who developed a disaster risk reduction (DRR) recommendation for stakeholders, which is designed to assess how uncertainty affects the processing of early warning information and subsequent decision-making (for example, an evacuation order), embedded in fictitious geo-graphical, policy and practical conditions. This topic: "Uncertainty as an important determinant in psychological science and practice" is relevant in modern society. The conclusions reveal the content of the data obtained, the analysis of the attitude to uncertainty as a phenomenon of science and practice.
Highlights
Based on the statements of a specialist in historical anthropology, Christoph Wulff, who argued that uncertainty is a defining element of culture, uncertainty is an essential condition for a free, productive and happy human life [1].As the natural science methodologist Ilya Prigozhin [2] shows, psychologists (Asmolov, 2016) [3] have radically changed the image of science over the course of the twentieth century
It is in such non-equilibrium systems, as Prigozhin wrote, that it is possible to expand the scale of this system itself, i.e., to change its attitude to the external world, to the external environment of the system
Based on the results of the pilot study, we obtained the following results: both negative and positive perceptions are important in the study
Summary
Based on the statements of a specialist in historical anthropology, Christoph Wulff, who argued that uncertainty is a defining element of culture, uncertainty is an essential condition for a free, productive and happy human life [1]. "Our mind is an excellent explanatory machine that can find meaning in almost anything, interpret any phenomenon, but is completely unable to accept the idea of unpredictability" [Ibid.: 41] In another book, he justifies the significance in the modern world of a psychological characteristic, which, for lack of a more appropriate term, he calls "antifragility". You can predict, expect, and plan something with varying degrees of confidence, but the predictability of the future, including our own actions, is always, to put it mildly, incomplete This causes us mortals great problems, because we do not want to accept the unpredictability of the future, naturally generates a specific form of psychological protection: a confident understanding of what will happen. The fifth type is an experience tinged with a positive emotional tone: curiosity, searchbased supra-situational activity, fantasy play, generation of new meanings, joy, excitement, pleasure-related research, and insights that lead to a creative and meaningful transformation of the situation of uncertainty
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