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2004, Journal of Applied Social Psychology
... JODY J. ILLIES~ RONI REITER-PALMON St. ... For this reason, that person will tend to be closed-minded (Johnson, Lin, Symons, Campbell, & Ekstein, 1995; Maio & Olson, 1995) and therefore may not feel the need to search for additional information or to devote the extra effort ...
Nature Communications
Individual differences in information-seeking2021 •
Vast amounts of personalized information are now available to individuals. A vital research challenge is to establish how people decide what information they wish to obtain. Here, over five studies examining information-seeking in different domains we show that information-seeking is associated with three diverse motives. Specifically, we find that participants assess whether information is useful in directing action, how it will make them feel, and whether it relates to concepts they think of often. We demonstrate that participants integrate these assessments into a calculation of the value of information that explains information seeking or its avoidance. Different individuals assign different weights to these three factors when seeking information. Using a longitudinal approach, we find that the relative weights assigned to these information-seeking motives within an individual show stability over time, and are related to mental health as assessed using a battery of psychopatholo...
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Adams, 1992; Levy, Albright, Cawley, & Williams, 1995; Morrison & Cummings, 1992; Morrison & Weldon, 1990; VandeWalle & Cummings, 1997). Consistent with earlier models of information Direct all correspondence to: Elizabeth W. Morrison, Department of Management, Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West 4 th Street, New York, NY 10012; Phone: 212-998-0230; E-mail: emorriso@stern.nyu.edu. Journal of Management 2000, Vol. 26, No. 1, 119 --137 Copyright 2000 by Elsevier Science Inc. 0149-2063 119 seeking found within the communication literature and the uncertainty reduction literature (e.g., Berger & Calabrese, 1975; Berlyne, 1960), the Ashford and Cummings (1983) model conceptualizes information seeking as a process of uncertainty reduction, whereby an individual decides whether to allocate energy toward information seeking based on the anticipated benefits of acquiring information and the anticipated costs of obtaining that information. The empirical studies that
Psychology and Marketing
Need for cognitive closure and information search strategy2008 •
The authors investigated whether need for cognitive closure (NFCC) affected one’s style of information search (attribute-based search vs. alternative-based search) in consumer choice. There has been grow- ing interest in NFCC in marketing and its relationship to consumer information processing. However, no study to date has examined the different information search strategies that consumers employ when they (1) possess different levels of NFCC or (2) are exposed to situa- tions that evoke more or less NFCC. Across two studies where Study 1 measured NFCC while Study 2 manipulated NFCC, the authors com- monly found that higher NFCC compared to lower NFCC resulted in (1) a greater preference for the attribute-based search over the alternative-based search and (2) a consideration of a smaller amount of information to make a final choice. Implications for consumer information processing and sales strategies are discussed along with future research directions.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
“Irrational” searchers and IR-rational researchers2006 •
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
The "Active Search" HypothesisBritish Journal of Social Psychology
New knowledge for old credences: Asymmetric information search about in-group and out-group members2012 •
Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers
Information search in the laboratory and on the Web: With or without an experimenter2003 •
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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Patterns in information search for decision making: the effects of information abstraction1996 •
Information Processing & Management
On studying information seeking methodologically: the implications of connecting metatheory to method1999 •