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German psychologists at the Berlin Institute for Human Development together with the Spanish colleagues of the University of Grenada announced with pages of the journal Psychological Review, which is less than one percent people want to know the future, and predict (to have such a gift) upcoming negative events wish no more than ten percent.
According to Gerd Gigerenzer (Gerd Gigerenzer), people do not want to know about the impending suffering, it is easier for them to live in the illusion of expectation something good and pleasant, getting a certain pleasure.
From time immemorial, people have wondered whether knowledge of the future brings something. positive, thousands of works of art are dedicated to this and no less religious treatises. In some of these texts the ability to see the future is viewed from a positive point view, however, in most cases – with a negative. Scientists decided to conduct a survey and find out how a modern person relates to foresight.
The results were disappointing. People do not want to know the future, fearing that something bad might be revealed there. Of two of thousands of respondents, most argued that if the future could not change, it’s better not to know it. How to live with expectation some kind of misfortune or disaster, which certainly will happen? ..
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Only the birth of a child was the only exception, oh which almost seventy percent of respondents would like to know: who and when they are born. Otherwise, people prefer to live in present, in the worst case – falling into the past, finding there oblivion, but without opening the curtain of the future. Maybe it’s for for this reason there are few seers on earth, and intuition is practically not developed in humans: he lost this gift as it was no longer needed. And neither for which he does not want to return it back …
Living in ignorance is much more comfortable for a modern person, than to know the future and bear some responsibility for it knowledge, says Maria Garcia-Retamero (Maria Garcia-Retamero) of Berlin Institute for Human Development. And even in the predictions world-wide people are trying to find (remember) for themselves only good, immediately discarding (not believing or trying as best as possible faster to forget) everything is negative. It’s easier to live like that …
