{"id":7507,"date":"2024-05-28T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/751737841919344640-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:42:42","slug":"751737841919344640-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/751737841919344640-2\/","title":{"rendered":"751737841919344640"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2023\/10\/why-we-choose-ignorance\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2023\/10\/why-we-choose-ignorance\"}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2023\/10\/why-we-choose-ignorance\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2023\/10\/why-we-choose-ignorance<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>\u2018I\u2019d rather not know\u2019: Why we choose ignorance<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cAcross the studies, the researchers found that when given an option, 40% of people chose not to learn the consequences of their actions. That willful ignorance was correlated with less altruism: People were 15.6 percentage points more likely to be generous to someone else when they were told the consequences of their choice compared with when they were allowed to remain ignorant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2023\/10\/why-we-choose-ignorance \u2018I\u2019d rather not know\u2019: Why we choose ignorance \u201cAcross &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[655,1367,1235,707,4170,4842,741,731,732,705,708,704,3,617,2984,4585,3683,2255],"class_list":["post-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-artist","tag-awareness","tag-consciousness","tag-ego","tag-human-behavior","tag-ignorance","tag-influencer","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness","tag-mind","tag-narcissism","tag-psychology","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-quotes","tag-self-awareness","tag-self-centered","tag-self-conscious","tag-self-realization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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