Most people don’t want to know what the future holds

When it comes to the future, ignorance really may be bliss. Psychologists asked people whether they wanted to know what their future held, and as it turns out, most of us prefer to be kept in the dark.Scientists surveyed nationally representative samples of people in Spain and Germany. They asked, for example, whether people wanted to know what they were getting for Christmas, whether their marriage would end in divorce, when they would die, and whether there is life after death. The results, pu