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Why Individuals Avoid Information
17 Jun 2025
Why Individuals Avoid Information:
A common hypothesis posits that individuals strategically avoid information to hold particular beliefs or to take certain actions—such as behaving selfishly—with lower image costs … We find evidence for other reasons why individuals avoid information, such as a desire to avoid interpersonal tradeoffs, a desire to avoid bad news, laziness, inattention, and confusion.
Anthologies: Connection, Somatic Architecture, On Being Fruitful, On Culture, On Thinking and Reasoning, Psychologia