The psychology of ignorance Michael Smithson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smithson, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)--Psychological aspects.

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

illustration

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press, 2026.

Oxford Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

Historically, the psychology of ignorance has been under-explored, despite being a topic of great importance to anyone wishing to understand human behaviour. In this volume, Smithson develops foundations for a psychology of ignorance by providing an extensive and critical account of what psychology has to say about ignorance. The book's scope includes the nature and causes of ignorance, when and why we attribute ignorance to ourselves or to others, how we feel, think, and behave when we are aware of our ignorance, when and why we choose to be ignorant, and how and why we impose ignorance on one another. Its primary goals are making psychology's implicit treatments of ignorance explicit, identifying missing connections within psychology on this topic as well as connections with other disciplines, and rebalancing psychology's largely negative orientation towards ignorance

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780198960614

0198960611

OCLC:

1582491162

Publisher Number:

CIPO000374026

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license