Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development.
Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universitat Berlin.
Psychol Aging. 2021 Jun;36(4):407-414. doi: 10.1037/pag0000603. Epub 2021 Apr 29.
People sometimes choose to remain ignorant, even when information comes at low marginal costs and promises high utility. To investigate whether older adults enlist deliberate ignorance more than younger adults, potentially as an emotion-regulation tool, we presented a representative sample of 1,910 residents of Germany with 13 scenarios in which knowledge could result in substantial gains or losses. The strongest correlate of deliberate ignorance was indeed age. Openness to experience was negatively correlated with deliberate ignorance; risk preference did not and neuroticism did not consistently predict it. Findings suggest a possible positivity effect in the decision to access new but ambiguous information. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
人们有时选择保持无知，即使信息的边际成本很低，而且承诺会带来很高的效用。为了研究老年人是否比年轻人更倾向于故意忽视信息，可能将其作为一种情绪调节工具，我们向德国的 1910 名居民展示了 13 个场景，这些场景中的知识可能会带来重大的收益或损失。故意忽视的最强相关因素确实是年龄。对经验的开放性与故意忽视呈负相关；风险偏好与故意忽视没有必然的关联，神经质也不能始终预测故意忽视。研究结果表明，在决定获取新的但模棱两可的信息时，可能存在一种积极的影响。
