According to the Vancouver Sun, a new study shows that if Canadians know little about something, they avoid finding out more, especially if the issues are really complicated. In fact, some would avoid the crisis altogether.The authors of the study note that this tendency to avoid threatening information about complex issues is called “motivated avoidance.”
So the more worried people are about something, the less they read about it and the more they leave it to their government ot handle.
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