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Embodied choices bypass narratives under radical uncertainty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2023

Rouwen Cañal-Bruland
Affiliation:
Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07749 Jena, Germany. rouwen.canal.bruland@uni-jena.de https://www.spowi.uni-jena.de/en/departments/department-for-the-psychology-of-human-movement-and-sport/people/rouwen-canal-bruland
Markus Raab
Affiliation:
Department of Performance Psychology, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany. raab@dshs-koeln.de https://fis.dshs-koeln.de/portal/en/persons/markus-raab(05e809e4-1be0-45aa-b811-58adc6779693).html School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, SE1 0AA London, UK

Abstract

Johnson et al. suggest that we rely on narratives to make choices under radical uncertainty. We argue that in its current version Conviction Narrative Theory (CNT) does not account for embodied, direct sensorimotor influences on choices under radical uncertainty that may bypass narratives, particularly in highly time-constrained situations. We therefore suggest to extend CNT by an embodied choice perspective.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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