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

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Is Information Avoidance a Psychological Phenomenon?

ignorance is a psychological phenomenon been studied cross-culturally for example do we have data on people from more traditional societies like enter gatherers or something like that not to the best of my knowledge now both deliver ignorance. If you for instance think about religion religion is full of taboos and you could see taboos as cultural recommendations or not even just recommendation instructions to be deliberate ignorance don't make yourself an image of God is a form if you will of deliberate ignorance.

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