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Names: Hertwig, Ralph, editor. | Engel, Christoph, 1956- editor.
Title: Deliberate ignorance : choosing not to know / edited by Ralph Hertwig and Christoph Engel.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] | Series: Strngmann forum reports | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: LCSH: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)Social aspects. | Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)Psychological aspects.
Auster, Sarah | Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, 20136 Milan, Italy |
Berkman, Benjamin E | Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, U.S.A. |
Bierbrauer, Felix | Center for Macroeconomic Research, University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany |
Brown, Gordon D. A | Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K. |
Dana, Jason | School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, U.S.A. |
Egidy, Stefanie | Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 53113 Bonn, Germany |
Ellerbrock, Dagmar | Department of History, Technische Universitt Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany |
Engel, Christoph | Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 53113 Bonn, Germany |
Frankenreiter, Jens | Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 53113 Bonn, Germany |
Gchter, Simon | School of Economics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K. |
Gigerenzer, Gerd | Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany |
Golman, Russell | Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A. |
Gummadi, Krishna P | Department of Networked Systems, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany |
Hagel, Kristin | Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany |
Hagmann, David | Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. |
Hahn, Ulrike | Department of Psychological Sciences, Birbeck University of London, London WC1E 7HX, U.K. |
Hertwig, Ralph | Department of Adaptive Rationality and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany |
Hilbe, Christian | Max Planck Research Group Dynamics of Social Behavior, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Pln, Germany |
Isaacowitz, Derek M | Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, U.S.A. |
Kandler, Anne | Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany |
Kareev, Yaakov | Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel |
Kornhauser, Lewis A | New York University School of Law, New York, NY 10012 U.S.A. |
Krueger, Joachim I | Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A. |
Leuker, Christina | Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany |
Lewandowsky, Stephan | School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TU, U.K.; and University of Western Australia, Crawley WA 6009, Australia |
MacCoun, Robert J | Law School, Department of Psychology, and Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 90305, U.S.A. |
McElreath, Richard | Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany |
Pachur, Thorsten | Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany |
Richerson, Peter J | Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A. |
Schmid, Laura | Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria |
Schooler, Lael J | Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, U.S.A. |
Schwartz, Barry | Department of Management, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A. |
Szech, Nora | Department of Political Economy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany |
Talley, Eric | Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, Columbia Law School, New York, NY 10025, U.S.A. |
Teichman, Doron | Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 9190501, Israel |
Trimmer, Pete C | Faculty of Biology, Evolutionary Biology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld 33615, Germany |
Utz, Sonja | Department of Social Media, Leibniz-Institut fr Wissensmedien, 72076 Tbingen; and University of Tbingen, 72074 Tbingen, Germany |