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

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Are There Different Cognitive Mechanisms Associated With Deliberate Ignorance?

I would like to ask you now if there are different cognitive mechanisms associated with deliberate ignorance. To be more concrete and give an example. Okay, so is there a connection between deliberate ignorance and biases and the eristics? Because just the definition itself of deliberately choosing not to seek more information in a particular domain, it brings to mind bias where people simply decide to not seek out sources of information which would run counter to their prior beliefs or something like that. So does this make sense? You know it makes a very good sense. I think that again the answer is not a simple one.

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