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Responsibility for strategic ignorance [PDF]
Synthese, 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.
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Biological Weapons Testing at Porton Down
Humanimalia, 2023 This article focuses on the use of nonhuman animals for biological weapons testing by military scientists at Porton Down Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 1948–1955.
Catherine Duxbury
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Strategic ignorance and the legitimation of remote warfare: The Hawija bombardments [PDF]
Security Dialogue, 2021 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 Resolve. It observes that
Gould, L.M., Stel, N.M., Stel, N.M.
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Une stratégie de la connaissance négative
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021 The food industry and food retail industry are strategic in France and have been facing successive crises concerning health and nutritional quality of food products as well as a rapid increase in food-related diseases, inducing increased distrust of food
Christophe Serra-Mallol
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Ignorance Is Bliss, But for Whom? The Persistent Effect of Good Will on Cooperation
Games, 2016 Who benefits from the ignorance of others? We address this question from the point of view of a policy maker who can induce some ignorance into a system of agents competing for resources. Evolutionary game theory shows that when unconditional cooperators
Mike Farjam +2 more
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Strategic ignorance of health risk: its causes and policy consequences [PDF]
Behavioural Public Policy, 2020 AbstractWe examine the causes and policy implications of strategic (willful) ignorance of risk as an excuse to over-engage in risky health behavior. In an experiment on Copenhagen adults, we allow subjects to choose whether to learn the calorie content of a meal before consuming it and then measure their subsequent calorie intake.
Nordström, Leif Jonas +4 more
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Secrecy and Technologies
Secrecy and Society, 2023 Many scholars have treated the inscrutability of technologies, secrecy, and other unknowns as moral and ethical challenges that can be resolved through transparency and openness.
Clare Stevens, Sam Forsythe
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Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment
Judgment and Decision Making, 2009 We designed an experiment to test the robustness of Dana, Weber, and Kuang’s (DWK), 2007 results. DWK observed that, when participants were given a “costless” way — the click of a button — to ignore the consequences of their actions on others’ payoffs ...
Tara Larson, C. Monica Capra
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Addressing Human Factors in Cybersecurity Leadership
Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 2022 This article identifies human factors in workplaces that contribute to the challenges faced by cybersecurity leadership within organizations and discusses strategic communication, human–computer interaction, organizational factors, social environments ...
William J. Triplett
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Self-Image and Strategic Ignorance in Moral Dilemmas [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Avoiding information about adverse welfare consequences of self-interested decisions, or strategic ignorance, is an important source of corruption, anti-social behavior and even atrocities. We model an agent who cares about self-image and has the opportunity to learn the social benefits of a personally costly action.
Grossman, Z., van der Weele, J.
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