Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Willful blindness or Willful ignorance; Wilful Blindness (2011 book), a non-fiction book by Margaret Heffernan;
Wilful Blindness is an investigative book by Sam Cooper into the influence of soft power of China in Vancouver, Canada.It builds upon Project Sidewinder report from the RCMP and the CSIS and specifically focuses on "The Vancouver Model".
The book covers a range of fields including psychology, history, neuroscience, and social behavior to explain how institutional and individual failure often results from willful blindness. Heffernan discusses various factors that contribute to this phenomenon, such as cognitive dissonance , obedience to authority, and love and fear.
The recent House Foreign Relations Committee report, titled “Willful Blindness,” shines light on some of the mistakes, but much of what matters remains in the dark. This is where the report ...
Willful ignorance is sometimes called willful blindness, contrived ignorance, conscious avoidance, [4] intentional ignorance, or Nelsonian knowledge. [ 5 ] The jury instruction for willful blindness is sometimes called the " ostrich instruction ".
Margaret Heffernan talks about Willful Blindness on Bookbits radio. A Bigger Prize. Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2014. ISBN 978-1471100758; Willful Blindness. Walker & Company, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8027-1998-0; Women on Top. Penguin, 2008. ISBN 0-14-311280-5; How She Does It. Viking Adult, 2007. ISBN 0-670-03823-7; The Naked Truth. Jossey-Bass, 2004.
The 2009 movie “The Blind Side” purports to tell the story of Michael Oher, a Black high school student rescued from poverty and neglect by the Tuohys, a wealthy white family who embraced him ...
Willful blindness is an attempt to avoid obscuring or misleading a case by avoiding the idea that a fact is true if it cannot be proven from the knowledge. This is an attempt to avoid information hazards that could harm a legal case by putting false or assumed information in the mind of the jury.