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High-stakes decisions do not require narrative conviction but narrative flexibility

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Abstract We challenge Johnson et al.'s assumption that people reduce unclear situations to a single narrative explanation and that such reduction would be adaptive for decision-making under radical uncertainty. Instead,… Click to show full abstract

Abstract We challenge Johnson et al.'s assumption that people reduce unclear situations to a single narrative explanation and that such reduction would be adaptive for decision-making under radical uncertainty. Instead, we argue that people imagine and maintain multiple narrative possibilities throughout the decision-making process and that this process provides cognitive flexibility and adaptive benefits within the proposed model.

Keywords: high stakes; narrative conviction; flexibility; require narrative; stakes decisions; decisions require

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2023

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