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
The paper describes deliberate ignorance as a universal human tendency, not a partisan one. Reducing it to a conservative specific problem is ironically a good demonstration of the phenomenon.
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...
Link to paper:
http://www.spp1516.de/Publikationen/pdfs/Hertwig%20&%20Engel...
If conservatives could read, they'd be very upset.
But atleast they have their bots:
The paper describes deliberate ignorance as a universal human tendency, not a partisan one. Reducing it to a conservative specific problem is ironically a good demonstration of the phenomenon.