{"pk":30170,"title":"Keep Calm and Learn the Language: Do Multilinguals Have Lower Intolerance ofUncertainty than Monolinguals?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of an observational study on therelationship between multilingualism and lower Intolerance ofUncertainty (IoU). A group of over two hundred multilingualand monolingual individuals filled in an online survey that con-tained items about one’s language profile, cross-cultural expe-rience, and the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 (IUS-12)– a psychometrically-sound instrument to assess one’s vulner-ability towards uncertain situations on an emotional, behav-ioral and cognitive level. We ask whether highly multilingualpeople are less likely to fear unknowns as a result of their ex-posure to linguistic and/or cultural uncertainty while learningforeign languages and/or staying abroad. The results show thatan advanced knowledge of multiple languages and longer staysabroad correlate with lower aversion towards uncertain situa-tions, thus, lower scores on the IUS-12. The study opens upnew avenues for further investigation into how multilingual-ism and multiculturalism shape one’s cognition and might havepositive effects on mental well-being.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"multilingualism; multiculturalism; intolerance ofuncertainty; cognition; well-being"}],"section":"Papers accepted as Posters, appearing in proceedings only","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58z8r3wk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Julija","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vaitonyt ̇","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg University,","department":""},{"first_name":"Ozge  ̈","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ozt  ̈urk","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Sheffield","department":""},{"first_name":"Lisa-Maria","middle_name":"","last_name":"M  ̈uller","name_suffix":"","institution":"Chartered College of Teaching","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30170/galley/20024/download/"}]}