Whether people inform themselves or remain ignorant is due to three factors

 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/936722

 

 News Release 3-Dec-2021
Peer-Reviewed Publication
University College London

 

People choose whether to seek or avoid information about their health, finances and personal traits based on how they think it will make them feel, how useful it is, and if it relates to things they think about often, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

Most people fall into one of three ‘information-seeking types’: those that mostly consider the impact of information on their feelings when deciding whether to get informed, those that mostly consider how useful information will be for making decisions, and those that mostly seek information about issues they think about often, according to the findings published in Nature Communications.

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