Homo Ignorans: Deliberately Choosing Not to Know

by Jimmc414on 3/7/2026, 8:48 PMwith 6 comments

by Jimmc414on 3/7/2026, 8:57 PM

Follow up paper that extends the concept of identity protective cognition explaining that people avoid, neglect, and distort information to protect identity based belief systems.

The Good, Bad and Ugly of information (un)processing; Homo Economicus, Homo Heuristicus and Homo Ignorans

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01674...

by cyanydeezon 3/7/2026, 11:18 PM

If conservatives could read, they'd be very upset.

But atleast they have their bots: