From: Daily Mail
Ignorance IS bliss! We don’t want to know about complex issues preferring to leave them to governments
November 22, 2011
Daily Mail:
People who know less about challenging social issues, are more likely to want to avoid becoming well-informed about them, according to a new report.
The study looked at people’s knowledge and willingness to learn about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment.
And it revealed that the more urgent the issue, the more people want to remain unaware, according to a paper published online in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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