Information Avoidance: Who, What, When, and Why

By Kate Sweeny, Darya Melnyk, Wendi A. Miller, J. Shepperd. 2010

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‘The Ostrich Problem’: motivated avoidance or rejection of information about goal progress (2013, background): “, 1995), or self-beliefs (Holton & Pyszczynski, 1989); (ii) may demand undesired action (Sweeny et al., 2010); (iii) suggests that goal progress is poor rather than good (e.”
The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information (2015, neutral): “…and even when the results of the test could provide valuable information for decision making (e.g., whether to obtain treatment) (Lyter et al., 1987; Lerman et al., 1996; Lerman et al., 1999; Caplin and Eliaz, 2003; Köszegi, 2003; Thornton, 2008; Oster et al., 2013; see also Sweeny et al., 2010).”
What motivates Chinese consumers to avoid information about the COVID-19 pandemic?: The perspective of the stimulus-organism-response model (2020, neutral): “In terms of convergent validity, the values of average variance extracted (AVE) were all above 0.5 (Chin, 1998), and all the item loadings were larger than the required 0.7, indicating that convergent validity is satisfied. Discriminant validity was examined with three methods, following Ko (2018). ”