Information avoidance

(Carnegie Mellon University) People deliberately avoid information that threatens their happiness and wellbeing. Carnegie Mellon researchers show that, while a simple failure to obtain information is the most clear-cut case of 'information avoidance,' people have a wide range of other information-avoidance strategies at their disposal. They are also remarkably adept at selectively directing their attention to information that affirms what they believe or that reflects favorably upon them, and at