1234-7175 (Un)deliberate ignorance. Discreet charm and adaptive functions of motivated ignorance (Un)deliberate ignorance. Dyskretny urok i adaptacyjne funkcje niewiedzy Mudyń Krzysztof author Uniwersytet Rzeszowski 03pfsnq21 Correspondence to: Krzysztof Mudyń krzysztof.mudyn@ignatianum.edu.pl 29 06 2023 Tom 38, Numer 1 Tom 38 (2023) 35 43 Copyright © 2023 2023 <p>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. 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