TY - JOUR
TI - (Un)deliberate ignorance. Discreet charm and adaptive functions of motivated ignorance
AU - Mudyń, Krzysztof
TI - (Un)deliberate ignorance. Discreet charm and adaptive functions of motivated ignorance
AB - 
	First, the author cites several of wilful ignorance and analyzes the concept in relation to related terms such as “voluntary blindness”, “information avoidance” and “negative knowledge”. Then he presents the six groups of motives distinguished by Engel and Hartwig, which may lead to the phenomenon of deliberate ignorance. The author proposes to reduce The author proposes to reduce this taxonomy to three more general motives, i.e. emotional, pragmatic and moral category, and characterizes their specificity. Referring to psychoanalytic tradition and the role attributed by the modern experimental psychology to unconscious processes, he notes that not every type of motivated ignorance is preceded by a “deliberate”, conscious decision. Many manifestations of ignorance are spontaneous (but not accidental) products of the activity of unconscious processes. More or less “deliberate” ignorance is a frequent reason for potential patients to avoid or delay medical examination. The practical problem is how to counteract this unfavorable tendency.
VL - Tom 38 (2023)
IS - Tom 38, Numer 1
PY - 2023
SN - 1234-7175
C1 - 1898-2026
SP - 35
EP - 43
DO - 10.4467/18982026SZL.23.009.17923
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/sztuka-leczenia/artykul/un-deliberate-ignorance-discreet-charm-and-adaptive-functions-of-motivated-ignorance
KW - deliberate and undeliberate  ignorance
KW - emotional vs. pragmatic motives
KW - moral and legal motives