{"id":10093,"date":"2020-05-29T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/cuando-hay-incertidumbre-nos-volvemos-nacionalistas"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:25:13","slug":"cuando-hay-incertidumbre-nos-volvemos-mas-nacionalistas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/cuando-hay-incertidumbre-nos-volvemos-mas-nacionalistas\/","title":{"rendered":"When there is uncertainty, we become more nationalistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/094563\/choice-2692575_640\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Cuando hay incertidumbre, nos volvemos m\u00e1s nacionalistas\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>What difference is there between a group of people who read Franz Kafka, another who plays with a manipulated deck of cards in which the diamonds are red and the hearts are black, and another who ultimately did not receive any of these stimuli?<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The degree of uncertainty<\/strong> and, apparently, by extension, his tendency to become more nationalistic, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semanticscholar.org\/paper\/Turn-frogs-and-careful-sweaters%3A-Non-conscious-of-Randles-Proulx\/1a91d2336d34ed6783c8655a099d9f5d38da3e2a\">A study<\/a> made by psychologists <strong>Travis Proulx<\/strong> and <strong>Daniel Randles<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Rejection of uncertainty<\/h2>\n<p>To assess how much uncertainty (a surreal story and manipulated letters) made people tend to seek order, they asked the three groups to <strong>look for patterns in a succession of random letters<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/necesario-vs-poco-realista-diferencia-izquierdas-derechas-politica\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/912678\/artificial-intelligence-4389372_960_720\/375_142.jpg\" alt=\"Necesario VS poco realista: la diferencia entre izquierdas y derechas en pol\u00edtica\"><br \/>\n   <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"desvio-summary\">\n<div class=\"desvio-taxonomy js-desvio-taxonomy\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/necesario-vs-poco-realista-diferencia-izquierdas-derechas-politica\" class=\"desvio-taxonomy-anchor\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/necesario-vs-poco-realista-diferencia-izquierdas-derechas-politica\" class=\"desvio-title js-desvio-title\">Necessary VS unrealistic: the difference between left and right in politics<\/a>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As the journalist explains <strong>Marta Garc\u00eda Aller<\/strong> in his book <em>The unpredictable. Everything that technology wants and cannot control<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Those who had read the surrealist story, like those who received manipulated letters, had a greater need for order and found patterns even where there were none, like someone who sees the face of the Virgin in a damp spot on the wall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/magnet.xataka.com\/en-diez-minutos\/espana-era-pais-polarizado-europa-coronavirus-solo-esta-agrandando-brecha\" ><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/b20788\/sanchez-vete-ya\/375_142.jpeg\" alt=\"Espa\u00f1a ya era el pa\u00eds m\u00e1s polarizado de Europa. El coronavirus s\u00f3lo est\u00e1 agrandando la brecha\"><br \/>\n   <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"desvio-summary\">\n<div class=\"desvio-taxonomy js-desvio-taxonomy\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/magnet.xataka.com\/en-diez-minutos\/espana-era-pais-polarizado-europa-coronavirus-solo-esta-agrandando-brecha\" class=\"desvio-taxonomy-anchor m-crosspost\" >On Magnet<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/magnet.xataka.com\/en-diez-minutos\/espana-era-pais-polarizado-europa-coronavirus-solo-esta-agrandando-brecha\" class=\"desvio-title js-desvio-title\" >Spain was already the most polarized country in Europe. The coronavirus is only widening the gap<\/a>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>This tendency to seek order seems to be able to be extrapolated to politics as well.<\/strong>: An ideological position would therefore be sought that did not entail a high level of ambiguity, as suggested in another experiment that asked about political ideology:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And those who had been exposed to greater ambiguity expressed nationalist ideas more fervently. The ideology of each of the subjects did not matter, that is, it did not matter if they were left-wing or right-wing. These experiments concluded that, in situations of stress and uncertainty, we are more likely to polarize our lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/cuando-hay-incertidumbre-nos-volvemos-nacionalistas?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=29_May_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> When there is uncertainty, we become more nationalistic <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=29_May_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=29_May_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/N4gC5DBnSDE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    What difference is there between a group of people who read Franz Kafka, another who plays with a manipulated deck of cards in which the diamonds are red and the hearts are black and another who finally received neither of these is...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10093"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10554,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093\/revisions\/10554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}