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Reducing Health-Information Avoidance Through Contemplation

Psychological Science, 2013
Despite the importance of learning about one’s health, people sometimes opt to remain ignorant. In three studies, we investigated whether prompting people to contemplate their reasons for seeking or avoiding information would reduce avoidance of personal health information.
Jennifer L, Howell, James A, Shepperd
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Avoiding Risk Information About Breast Cancer

Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2012
Learning about personal risk can provide numerous benefits yet people sometimes opt to remain ignorant.Two studies examined the role of perceived control, coping resources, and anticipated regret in women's decision to avoid breast cancer risk information.Women completed a health inventory and then read a brochure about either controllable or ...
Darya, Melnyk, James A, Shepperd
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Who Avoids Cancer Information? Examining a Psychological Process Leading to Cancer Information Avoidance

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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Establishing an Information Avoidance Scale.

Psychological Assessment, 2016
People 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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Social information reduces infants’ avoidance of plants

Cognitive Development, 2020
Abstract Plants have been a fundamental component of human diets over evolutionary time. However, plants pose dangers to humans due to the variety of toxic chemical and mechanical defenses they manufacture. Accordingly, recent developmental work has shown that infants exhibit a reluctance to touch plants—a behavioral strategy that is an effective way
Włodarczyk, A., Rioux, C., Wertz, A. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2145-5189   +2 more
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Information Avoidance and Information Seeking Among Parents of Children With ASD

American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Abstract 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, Kiely, Law, Paul H, Lipkin, George, Loewenstein, Alison R, Marvin, Joseph D, Buxbaum   +5 more
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Information Avoidance: a Systematic Review

2020
The aim of this study is to understand the concept of information avoidance in terms of origin, effective factors, behaviors, areas of the previous studies, and research gaps. This research was conducted by systematic review method using Kitchenham and Charters (2007) framework. By reviewing internal and external databases and studying the abstracts of
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Group Frame Level: Information Avoidance

2018
In the previous chapter, we investigated the negative effect of human framing of their experience in the world at the individual level. Our mental frames imprison us in what we already know, which prevents us from coming to know that which we don’t already know.
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Information Avoidance in Educational Technology

2023 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education (ICAIE), 2023
Juan Zhou, Chengjiu Yin
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Regret and Information Avoidance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
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