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SUBMITTER: Vives ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5997641 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180612 1
Uncertainty is a fundamental feature of human life that can be fractioned into two distinct psychological constructs: risk (known probabilistic outcomes) and ambiguity (unknown probabilistic outcomes). Although risk and ambiguity are known to powerfully bias nonsocial decision-making, their influence on prosocial behavior remains largely unexplored. Here we show that ambiguity attitudes, but not risk attitudes, predict prosocial behavior: the greater an individual's ambiguity tolerance, the more ...[more]