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For decades, economics ignored psychological traits and mechanisms. Cognitive psychology offers economists more than just “nudging”. It also offers “boosting,” which stresses the possibility to foster extant competencies. Boosting helps people get closer to the rational agents populating economic models. But psychology also deals with deliberately choosing not to know, introducing the Homo Ignorans.
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Hertwig, R., & Engel, C. (2016). Homo ignorans: Deliberately choosing not to know. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(3), 359–372.
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Wagner, G.G. (2019). Gert G. Wagner Recommends “Homo Ignorans: Deliberately Choosing Not to Know” by Ralph Hertwig and Christoph Engel. In: Frey, B., Schaltegger, C. (eds) 21st Century Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17740-9_56
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