Mr Hertwig, why did you, as a psychologist, focus on deliberate ignorance? Ralph Hertwig: What fascinates me about the phenomenon of deliberate ignorance is that it is contrary to a deep-rooted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ignorance may sometimes be bliss, but in general it gets a bad rap - which is why the latest book from Peter Burke comes as a ...

Not sure what “oblivion” means? Take a minute and look it up. Your response to that suggestion reveals a lot. Some of you will already know what it means. Some of you won’t look it up because you ...

We live in a knowledge society in which science and education is of particular importance. Knowledge is also considered a key driver for economic growth. But under certain circumstances, we all ...

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When James Watson, one of the discoverers of DNA structure, had his own genome sequenced in 2007, there was one piece of information he dediced not to seek out: whether he possessed a specific genetic ...

As Buddhism teaches us, ignorance is an emotion. And this would give us hope that, being in an emotional world, it can be managed, transformed and maybe even quickly evolve into a more constructive ...

Knowledge can be a source of power and pleasure, but it also can be unsettling, humiliating, even terrifying. In “Ignorance and Bliss,” Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, ...

The president’s default when he throws out something completely ridiculous or irresponsible is to couch it in these terms. He thrives on the power he derives through ignorance. The more room he leaves ...