Information Avoidance¶
Golman, R., Hagmann, D., & Loewenstein, G. (2017). Information Avoidance. Journal of Economic Literature.
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Domain-specific¶
- Ostrich Effect
- The same asymmetric avoidance appears in cancer-screening uptake, where individuals at elevated genetic risk have been observed to defer testing more than those at lower risk — the opposite of what decision-theoretic expected utility predicts.
This sourceA cross-disciplinary review documenting the occurrence of information avoidance and the reasons people give for avoiding useful, free information.
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“We review research documenting the occurrence of information avoidance, as well as theoretical and empirical research on reasons why people avoid information, drawing from economics, psychology, and other disciplines.”
- The same asymmetric avoidance appears in cancer-screening uptake, where individuals at elevated genetic risk have been observed to defer testing more than those at lower risk — the opposite of what decision-theoretic expected utility predicts.
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