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Information Avoidance in the Modern Age
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Jan 25, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
In this episode, Under the Cortex hosts Jeremy Foust from Kent State University about his new paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science titled “Information Avoidance: Past Perspectives and Future Directions.” The conversation with APS’s Özge G. Fischer-Baum starts with defining information avoidance and then explores some of the factors that impact whether someone will choose to avoid information. Foust and Fischer-Baum also dive into me-search and how social media has or has not impacted the ways we take in information.
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Released:
Jan 25, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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