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Strategic self-ignorance [PDF]
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016 We examine strategic self-ignorance—the use of ignorance as an excuse to over-indulge in pleasurable activities that may be harmful to one’s future self. Our model shows that guilt aversion provides a behavioral rationale for present-biased agents to avoid information about negative future impacts of such activities.
Jonas Nordström +2 more
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Responsibility for strategic ignorance [PDF]
SynthÈse, 2016 Strategic ignorance is a widespread phenomenon. In a laboratory setting, many participants avoid learning information about the consequences of their behaviour in order to act egoistically. In real life, many consumers avoid information about their purchases or the working conditions in which they were produced in order to retain their lifestyle.
Jan Willem Wieland
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Strategic Ignorance and the Robustness of Social Preferences [PDF]
Management Science, 2014 Participants in dictator games frequently avoid learning whether their choice to maximize their own earnings will help or hurt the recipient and then choose selfishly, exploiting the “moral wiggle room” provided by their ignorance. However, this is found in an environment in which the dictator must actively learn the true payoffs, so inaction means ...
Zachary Jacob Grossman
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Seemingly altruistic behavior and strategic ignorance in a dictator game with potential loss [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyHirofumi Hashimoto
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The making of clandestinity: “strategic ignorance” in abortion practices in Latin America [PDF]
International Feminist Journal of PoliticsCordelia Freeman
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Strategic Ignorance and Perceived Control [PDF]
, 2023 Information can trigger unpleasant emotions. As a result, individuals might be tempted to strategically ignore it. We experimentally investigate whether increasing perceived control can mitigate strategic ignorance. Participants from India were presented with a choice to receive information about the health risk associated with air pollution and were ...
Balietti, Anca +3 more
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Optimism and pessimism in strategic interactions under ignorance [PDF]
Games and Economic Behavior, 2022 Previous titles: "Strategic Interactions under Ignorance: A Theory of Tropical Players" & "Tropical Attitudes in Strategic Interactions under Ignorance"
Pierfrancesco Guarino, Gabriel Ziegler
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Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 In his classic article An Essay on Bargaining Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the proposer can choose between two possible offers.
Conrads, Julian, Irlenbusch, Bernd
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Strategic ignorance and the legitimation of remote warfare: The Hawija bombardments [PDF]
Security Dialogue, 2021 Abstract How must we understand and conceptualize the rationales and repercussions of remote warfare? This article contributes to scholarship on the ontology of remote war by analysing how Dutch officials engage with responsibility for the bombardment of an Islamic State weapons factory in Hawija, Iraq in 2015 under Operation Inherent
Gould, L.M., Stel, N.M., Stel, N.M.
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Volunteering and the strategic value of ignorance [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2011 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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