Why we're hardwired to hate uncertainty | Marc Lewis

A new study shows that uncertainity is even more stressful than knowing something bad is definitely going to happen. But you can learn to live with itA team of researchers has published the most sophisticated experiment ever conceived on the relationship between uncertainty and stress. The volunteers for this experiment played a computer game requiring them to overturn rocks that might have snakes hidden under them. If a snake appeared, a painful electric shock was delivered. The participants we