When given the choice to learn how their actions will affect someone else, 40% of people will choose ignorance, often in order to have an excuse to act selfishly, according to recent research.

A recent article in Scientific American states that some people seem to willfully ignore facts and information, especially if we would need to make inconvenient changes to our lives. (Try cutting out ...

Our behavior seems to be built by evolution, and it's sometimes paradoxical. To borrow from the hard sciences, our behavior exhibits complementarity. We are largely felicitous to our family and ...

Ignorance is the “lack of knowledge or information” (Cambridge Languages). The word has negative connotations, but we are all ignorant in many regards and to varying degrees. We routinely depend on ...

I still find it somewhat astounding that these “range rights” folks seem to forget, ignore or seem plain outraged over the simple fact that they are accessing resources that belong to everyone in the ...

Many of the things we believe about ourselves and our experiences turn out to be false. Sometimes this is due to innocent memory failures or to the lack of needed information. Suppose that Charles ...

Willful ignorance is nothing new. Depending on your beliefs, you could say it was willful ignorance that got Adam and Eve kicked out of the Garden of Eden. But the visibility of it is higher than it’s ...

Source: Rawpixel/iStock, used with permission. Ignorance could be viewed as the highest mountain for humans to climb. That’s why it’s also perceived as debilitating, in the sense that it exposes our ...

This is not the post I thought I’d be writing today. Two weeks ago, when I started to try to understand willful ignorance, I was mad. I suspect I shared that feeling with many of you. I was tired of ...

When given the choice to learn how their actions will affect someone else, 40% of people will choose ignorance, often in order to have an excuse to act selfishly, according to new research. When given ...

WASHINGTON – When given the choice to learn how their actions will affect someone else, 40% of people will choose ignorance, often in order to have an excuse to act selfishly, according to research ...