Blinding curiosity: Exploring preferences for “blinding” one’s own judgment

•Explores people’s preferences for “blinding” their own judgments, evaluations, etc.•Most people acknowledge they should be blind to potentially biasing information.•Fewer actually choose to be blind to such information when it is readily available.•Blinding preferences are motivated by curiosity vs. concerns over fairness/accuracy.•A reflection-based intervention can encourage one to blind one’s judgment.