The psychology of not wanting to know

该项目旨在深入了解人类在追求无用信息或故意无知时的矛盾决策行为。该项目旨在通过最近在理解强化学习、预期和折扣如何结合起来决定人们何时想知道和不想知道方面取得的重大进展，为这些信息偏好冲突状态存在的原因提供新的线索。预期的好处包括保持和提高澳大利亚心理和认知科学的卓越地位。下游的好处包括阐明焦虑障碍和问题赌博的发展。

This project aims to deliver insights into paradoxical decision-making behaviours of humans who pursue either useless information or deliberate ignorance. The project intends to shed new light on why these conflicting states of information preference exist by building on significant recent advances in understanding how reinforcement learning, anticipation and discounting combine to determine when people do and do not want to know. Intended benefits include maintaining and enhancing the excellent status of Australian psychological and cognitive science. The downstream benefits include elucidating the development of anxiety disorders and problem gambling.