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Ostrich Effect (selective monitoring)
After adverse news, people may check personally consequential information less often, even when it remains available and potentially useful.
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Information Avoidance
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- What it supports
- Information can affect utility directly, beliefs, actions, attention and strategic relationships, creating reasons to avoid it even when acquisition is easy and instrumentally useful.
- Where it may not transfer
- A broad narrative synthesis does not estimate one effect or determine when avoidance is harmful. Some non-acquisition is rational, protective or caused by access and action constraints.
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