Why We Hate Uncertainty

We're not particularly good at envisioning our future selves or empathizing with our future selves. We often do favor making decisions that are advantageous to us in the short term. There is a principle in cognitive science called the illusion of control. People will actually feel more stressed out when they have a 50% chance of receiving an electric shock than when they've got 100%.

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