Research suggests that people are more likely to follow advice delivered with confidence and to reject advice delivered with hesitancy or uncertainty - via healthing_ca healthing research canada
In addition to forming accurate impressions in your memory, communicated uncertainty also helps you learn about cases that are uncertain by their nature. Disease transmission is one of these cases.someone who expresses that uncertainty outrightIn this study, kids saw cause-and-effect relations – objects turned on a music machine. Some objects always made it go, others never made it go, and still others made it go sometimes.
Another group of kids heard the contrast communicated with uncertainty: “Maybe the red ones sometimes make it go, and the white ones sometimes do not.” Kids in this group were not confused. They learned that these objects were effective only sometimes, and they could distinguish them from objects that were always or never effective.The studies above show that appropriately communicated uncertainty can influence trust in the short term.
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