Psychologists theorise that uncertainty reduction maximises subjective utility in naive humans. If a person subjectively identifies uncertain stimuli associated with negative outcomes, this is not suprising.
Some normative decision theories treat knightian uncertainty as risk neutral
Defensive pessimism is anxiety reducing. This anxiety reduction may be because uncertainties are reduced by analysing them adhoc in ones worry.
Anxiety can also be reduced by non avoidance of an anxiety producing stimuli. When the target of ones worry is an anxiety producing stimuli and the strategy used is non avoidance, this may entail a human agent interacting with anxiety producing stimuli in order to produce a potentially spurious risk reduction attempt assuming that the risk is more accurately classified as knightian uncertainty
I suspect this framework may be useful In understanding why hopelessness can create a self fulfilling prophecy that can sometimes explain behaviours like suicidality, self destructing rather than optimistic gambling. I might flesh out the logic and evidence that has inspired this hypothesis more completely if I see a way that it could be operationalised.
Psychologists theorise that uncertainty reduction maximises subjective utility in naive humans. If a person subjectively identifies uncertain stimuli associated with negative outcomes, this is not suprising.
Some normative decision theories treat knightian uncertainty as risk neutral
Defensive pessimism is anxiety reducing. This anxiety reduction may be because uncertainties are reduced by analysing them adhoc in ones worry.
Anxiety can also be reduced by non avoidance of an anxiety producing stimuli. When the target of ones worry is an anxiety producing stimuli and the strategy used is non avoidance, this may entail a human agent interacting with anxiety producing stimuli in order to produce a potentially spurious risk reduction attempt assuming that the risk is more accurately classified as knightian uncertainty
I suspect this framework may be useful In understanding why hopelessness can create a self fulfilling prophecy that can sometimes explain behaviours like suicidality, self destructing rather than optimistic gambling. I might flesh out the logic and evidence that has inspired this hypothesis more completely if I see a way that it could be operationalised.