How people decide what they want to know.
Journal
Nature human behaviour
ISSN: 2397-3374
Titre abrégé: Nat Hum Behav
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101697750
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2020
01 2020
Historique:
received:
04
06
2019
accepted:
19
11
2019
pubmed:
15
1
2020
medline:
15
4
2020
entrez:
15
1
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Immense amounts of information are now accessible to people, including information that bears on their past, present and future. An important research challenge is to determine how people decide to seek or avoid information. Here we propose a framework of information-seeking that aims to integrate the diverse motives that drive information-seeking and its avoidance. Our framework rests on the idea that information can alter people's action, affect and cognition in both positive and negative ways. The suggestion is that people assess these influences and integrate them into a calculation of the value of information that leads to information-seeking or avoidance. The theory offers a framework for characterizing and quantifying individual differences in information-seeking, which we hypothesize may also be diagnostic of mental health. We consider biases that can lead to both insufficient and excessive information-seeking. We also discuss how the framework can help government agencies to assess the welfare effects of mandatory information disclosure.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31932690
doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0793-1
pii: 10.1038/s41562-019-0793-1
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
14-19Subventions
Organisme : Wellcome Trust (Wellcome)
ID : 214268/Z/18/Z
Pays : International
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