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Behavioral Obligation and Information Avoidance
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2012Although knowledge can be powerful and bring a variety of important benefits, people often opt to remain ignorant.We propose that people are particularly inclined to remain ignorant when learning information could obligate undesirable behavior.In three studies, participants completed an online risk calculator and then learned that receiving high-risk ...
Jennifer L, Howell, James A, Shepperd
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2011
Despite historically high rates of economic growth in South Asia over the last two decades, the extent of informality remains large and widespread. This paper asks why that is, why informality needs to be addressed, and how it can be addressed. The central thrust of this paper is to emphasize the heterogeneity of the informality discourse.
Kanbur, Ravi, Kanbur, Ravi
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Despite historically high rates of economic growth in South Asia over the last two decades, the extent of informality remains large and widespread. This paper asks why that is, why informality needs to be addressed, and how it can be addressed. The central thrust of this paper is to emphasize the heterogeneity of the informality discourse.
Kanbur, Ravi, Kanbur, Ravi
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Reducing Information Avoidance Through Affirmation
Psychological Science, 2012Although screening for medical problems can have health benefits, the potentially threatening nature of the results can lead people to avoid screening. In three studies, we examined whether affirming people’s self-worth reduces their avoidance of medical-screening feedback.
Jennifer L, Howell, James A, Shepperd
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Information Avoidance and Information Seeking Among Parents of Children With ASD
American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2019Abstract We estimated the effects of information avoidance and information seeking among parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on age of diagnosis. An online survey was completed by 1,815 parents of children with ASD.
Nachum, Sicherman +5 more
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Behavior as information: “If I avoid, then there must be a danger”
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2012Cognitive models of anxiety disorders view safety-seeking behaviors (i.e., avoidance, washing, etc.) as playing a crucial role in the maintenance of irrational fear. An explanation of how these behaviors may contribute to the maintenance of unrealistic beliefs is that patients use their safety behaviors as a source of information about the situation ...
GANGEMI, Amelia +2 more
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Journal of Health Communication, 2016
Although cancer information avoidance (CIA) is detrimental to public health, predictors of CIA have not been fully investigated. Based on uncertainty management theory, this study viewed CIA as a response to uncertainty related to the distress associated with cancer information and illustrated the psychological process leading to CIA. Given the current
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Although cancer information avoidance (CIA) is detrimental to public health, predictors of CIA have not been fully investigated. Based on uncertainty management theory, this study viewed CIA as a response to uncertainty related to the distress associated with cancer information and illustrated the psychological process leading to CIA. Given the current
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Avoiding Network Congestion with Local Information
2002Congestion leads to a severe performance degradation in multiprocessor interconnection networks. Therefore, the use of techniques that prevent network saturation are of crucial importance. Some recent proposals use global network information, thus requiring that nodes exchange some control information, which consumes a far from negligible bandwidth. As
Elvira Baydal +2 more
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Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance
Psychological ScienceAdults selectively avoid useful information. We examined the development of information avoidance in 5- to 10-year-old American children ( N = 320). In Experiment 1, children considered scenarios that might elicit information avoidance: protecting against negative emotions, maintaining ...
Radhika Santhanagopalan +2 more
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Establishing an Information Avoidance Scale.
Psychological Assessment, 2016People differ in their openness to different types of information and some information may evoke greater avoidance than does other information. We developed an 8-item measure of people's tendency to avoid learning information. The flexible instrument can function as both a predictor and outcome measure.
Jennifer L. Howell, James A. Shepperd
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Avoiding Trouble: Exploring Environmental Risk Information Avoidance Intentions.
Environment and Behavior, 2018This study explores predictors of risk information avoidance intentions in the context of a novel environmental threat—induced earthquakes in Texas. Given the paucity of research on risk information avoidance, this work was guided by a cognitive information behavior model.
Lee Ann Kahlor +3 more
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