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#539 Ralph Hertwig - Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know

The Dissenter

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Dr. Ralph Eratwig is Director of the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. He says that our way we make decisions is often a reflection of the world's information structure or other physical structures. And he argues that if we want to understand how the human mind works, we also need to look at the environment. This kind of mapping of the cognitive structure to the environmental structure can really support our decision making and help us to make better decisions.

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