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Articles on Uncertainty
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It is common to find uncertainty upsetting, confusing and frustrating.
As uncertainty abounds and anxiety skyrockets, you’ve probably heard advice to be patient, stay calm and keep the faith. Here are 10 concrete tips to help you actually manage the stress.
Election misinformation typically involves false narratives of fraud that include out-of-context or otherwise misleading images and faulty statistics as purported evidence.
Deliberately weaponising ambiguity to foster distrust in civic institutions is a dangerous game that can backfire.
In the age of masks, improve your interactions by using all aspects of human communication.
Feel like you’re facing too many pandemic-related unknowns? Reframing what it means to not know can help you break the uncertainty-anxiety connection.
Many great innovators have personality traits in common. Comfort with uncertainty is critical, but passion, curiosity and a number of other learnable skills can prime you for an innovate idea.
One of the hard things about life during a pandemic is the all encompassing lack of certainty. The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard can help us make our peace with this situation.
When this feeling dawned on me years ago on one of many early morning drives to Canberra during my PhD, it was almost crippling.
The coronavirus pandemic alters who we are, writes a psychologist. It affects how we think, how we relate to others and what we value.
Worried about an uncertain future? A psychologist offers tips to overcome the stress.
It’s time to break the deadlock with a referendum on no-deal Brexit or Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement.
The delay in adopting a national approach to building industry reform, based on a report received more than a year ago, typifies official neglect of the impacts of uncertainty on the affected people.
Heisenberg’s famous Uncertainty Principle is put to the test to see if things really are uncertain in the quantum world.
Months of low advertising spending has been blown out of the water by a Christmas splurge.
Changes proposed in a new counter-terrorism bill would make the line between pre-criminal and criminal actions ever more uncertain.
Could you treat depression, anxiety and other disorders by training people to be better at dealing with uncertainty? Scientists are trying to find out.
Brexit has not happened yet but the uncertainty unleashed by the vote to leave the EU is already taking its toll.
When you engage in recreational gambling, you’re not simply playing against the odds – you’re battling an enemy trained in the art of deceit and subterfuge who uses human nature against you.
Top contributors
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Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
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Emeritus Professor, College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle, Australia, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
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Adjunct Professor, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of New England
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Professor and Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Lecturer in applied mathematics, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Adjunct Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University
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Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
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Professor of Finance, University of Liverpool
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Head of the Centre for Water, Environment, Sustainability and Public Health, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Researcher, University of Tasmania
