I remember reading an article some years ago about a psychology study which indicated people may enjoy stories more when they know some spoilers. Even when those people say they dislike spoilers; even when the story is of a type (e.g. a mystery) where in theory a spoiler would "ruin" the ending. The study's authors theorized this is because not knowing where a story is going produces a degree of anxiety, and so spoilers allow you to appreciate the events without that anxiety.
Whether or not they're right I can't say, but I've shifted my thinking in much the same way you have. I'm not going out of my way to find spoilers for Infinity War, and I'm avoiding them to the extent of not reading those posts in my RSS aggregator yet, but if I happen across one? Eh. Anything that loses its impact by being spoiled didn't have a lot of substantive impact to begin with.
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Date: 2018-04-30 11:57 pm (UTC)Whether or not they're right I can't say, but I've shifted my thinking in much the same way you have. I'm not going out of my way to find spoilers for Infinity War, and I'm avoiding them to the extent of not reading those posts in my RSS aggregator yet, but if I happen across one? Eh. Anything that loses its impact by being spoiled didn't have a lot of substantive impact to begin with.