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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
卷 36, 期 4, 页码 407-414出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/pag0000603
关键词
deliberate ignorance; uncertainty; emotion regulation; positivity effect; aging
The research found that older adults tend to deliberately choose ignorance more than younger adults, but the relationship with openness, risk preference, and neuroticism is inconsistent.
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.
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