Information Avoidance

Is this what your doctor is doing to not have to keep up-to-date on all the stroke research out there? My doctor pooh-poohed the information I brought him on Saebo-flex and Henry Hoffman, did absolutely nothing. He was completely worthless. This would be a great thesis project for a neurologist.
https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/docs/loewenstein/InfoAvoidance.pdf

We commonly think of information as a means to an end. However, a growing theo-

retical and experimental literature suggests that information may directly enter the

agent’s utility function. This can create an incentive to avoid information, even when it

is useful, free, and independent of strategic considerations. We review research docu-

menting the occurrence of information avoidance, as well as theoretical and empirical

research on reasons why people avoid information, drawing from economics, psy-

chology, and other disciplines. The review concludes with a discussion of some of the

diverse (and often costly) individual and societal consequences of information avoid-

ance.

(Journal of Economic Literature 2017, 55(1), 96–135

https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20151245

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