self-blinding
Choosing not seeing
Self-blinding is the act or tendency of preventing oneself from seeing something—usually an uncomfortable truth or inconvenient evidence.
The term appears in research methodology, where subjects may blind themselves to certain information to reduce bias, but more often describes willful ignorance: His self-blinding about his daughter's addiction only made things worse.
The word emphasizes that the blindness is chosen, not accidental.
Refusal to accept reality
- avoidanceDeliberate keeping away
- rationalizationInventing acceptable motives afterward
- compartmentalizationDivision into distinct sections
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
Tragic Greek king
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
revelation · prophecy · hubris · shame · symbolic · Sophocles · gouging · oracle
Revealing trial assignments
- placeboInactive therapeutic substitute
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
- participantOne who takes part
- randomizationIntroducing chance systematically
protocol · masking · investigator · objectivity · validity · pharmaceutical · intervention · subject
Conformity-driven poor decisions
- institutionalOf formal establishments
- complicityShared criminal involvement
- scandalDisgraceful public affair
- misconductImproper professional behavior
whistleblower · accountability · Enron · negligence · cover-up · structural · systemic · governance
denial
Refusal to accept reality
- avoidanceDeliberate keeping away
- rationalizationInventing acceptable motives afterward
- compartmentalizationDivision into distinct sections
suppression · evasion · disavowal · refusal
Oedipus
Tragic Greek king
- punishmentPenalty for an offense
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
tragedy · revelation · prophecy · hubris · shame · symbolic · Sophocles · gouging · oracle · fate
unblinding
Revealing trial assignments
- placeboInactive therapeutic substitute
- methodologyFormal procedural framework
- participantOne who takes part
randomization · protocol · masking · investigator · objectivity · validity · pharmaceutical · intervention · subject
groupthink
Conformity-driven poor decisions
- institutionalOf formal establishments
- complicityShared criminal involvement
- scandalDisgraceful public affair
misconduct · whistleblower · accountability · Enron · negligence · cover-up · structural · systemic · governance
self-blindingtruth-seeking
Pursuit of accurate knowledge
clear-sightedness · intellectual honesty · open-eyed · self-examination · lucidity
self-blindingself-knowledge
Understanding of oneself
self-awareness · introspection · self-reflection · self-scrutiny · self-recognition
self, blind, blinding, blindingly, blinded, blinds, blindness, blindfold, selfhood