Format:
1 online resource (398 pages)
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Diagramme
ISBN:
9780262362610
Series Statement:
Strüngmann Forum Reports v.29
Content:
Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and legal scholars explore the conscious choice not to seek information.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Exploring the Phenomenon of Deliberate Ignorance -- What Constitutes the Deep Structure of Deliberate Ignorance? -- How Can Deliberate Ignorance be Modeled? -- Is Deliberate Ignorance Good or Bad and, if so, When? -- What Are the Institutional Implications of Deliberate Ignorance? -- Closing Remarks -- The Phenomenon -- 1 Homo Ignorans: Deliberately Choosing Not to Know -- Abstract -- Homo Ignorans: Deliberately Choosing Not to Know -- A Taxonomy of Deliberate Ignorance -- When Is Deliberate Ignorance a Good Thing? -- Building a Theory -- Future Challenges: To Know or Not to Know? -- Acknowledgments -- 2 The Complex Dynamics of Deliberate Ignoranc e and the Desire to Know in Times of Transformation -- Abstract -- The Simultaneity of Forgetting and Remembrance -- Knowledge, Secrecy, and Power -- Ousting a Knowledge Regime in Political Transformation -- The History of Deliberate Ignorance: Transformations in Twentiethand Twenty-First Century Germany -- The Stasi Files and Individuals' Reasons for Deliberate Ignorance -- Deliberate Ignorance in the Memory Politics during Transformational Periods -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- 3 Utilizing Strategic Ignorance in Negotiations -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Strategic versus Individual Decision Making -- Normative Reasons for Deliberate Ignorance in a Negotiation -- Descriptive Results on Deliberate Ignorance in a Negotiation -- Psychological Reasons for Deliberate Ignorance in a Negotiation -- Conclusion -- 4 Blinding to Remove Biases in Science and Society -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Deep Structure -- 5 The Deep Structure of Deliberate Ignorance -- Abstract -- Introduction -- What Counts as Deliberate Ignorance -- Domain Specificity of Deliberate Ignorance -- Psychological Mechanisms That Implement Deliberate Ignorance.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262045599
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Deliberate ignorance Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2020 ISBN 9780262045599
Language:
English
Subjects:
Psychology
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Sociology
Keywords:
Nichtwissen
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Erkenntnistheorie
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Psychologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
