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Homo Ignorans: Deliberately Choosing Not to Know

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by Jimmc414

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Follow up paper that extends the concept of identity protective cognition explaining that people avoid, neglect, and distort information to protect identity based belief systems.
The Good, Bad and Ugly of information (un)processing; Homo Economicus, Homo Heuristicus and Homo Ignorans
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01674...

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by cyanydeez

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If conservatives could read, they'd be very upset.
But atleast they have their bots: