Editing Feeling (section)

== Perception ==
{{Main article| Perception}}

=== Feelings of certainty ===
{{see also| Deja vu|Perception#Familiarity}}
The way that we see other people express their emotions or feelings determines how we respond. The way an individual responds to a situation is based on [[feeling rules]]. If an individual is uninformed about a situation the way they respond would be in a completely different demeanor than if they were informed about a situation. For example, if a tragic event had occurred and they had knowledge of it, their response would be sympathetic to that situation. If they had no knowledge of the situation, then their response may be indifference. A lack of knowledge or information about an event can shape the way an individual sees things and the way they respond.{{sfnp|Hochschild|2003}}

[[Timothy D. Wilson]], a psychology professor, tested this theory of the feeling of uncertainty along with his colleague Yoav Bar-Anan, a social psychologist. Wilson and Bar-Anan found that the more uncertain or unclear an individual is about a situation, the more invested they are. Since an individual does not know the background or the ending of a story they are constantly replaying an event in their mind which is causing them to have mixed feelings of happiness, sadness, excitement, and et cetera. If there is any difference between feelings and emotions, the feeling of uncertainty is less sure than the emotion of ambivalence: the former is precarious, the latter is not yet acted upon or decided upon.{{sfnp|Bar-Anan|Wilson|Gilbert|2009}}

The neurologist Robert Burton, writes in his book ''On Being Certain'', that feelings of certainty may stem from involuntary mental sensations, much like emotions or perceptual recognition (another example might be the [[tip of the tongue]] phenomenon).{{sfnp|Burton|2008}}

Individuals in society want to know every detail about something in hopes to maximize the feeling for that moment, but Wilson found that feeling uncertain can lead to something being more enjoyable because it has a sense of mystery. In fact, the feeling of not knowing can lead them to constantly think and feel about what could have been.{{sfnp|Horne|Csipke|2009}}

=== Sense of agency and sense of ownership ===
{{Main article| Sense of agency}}
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