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Motivation as a Lens for Understanding Information-seeking Behaviors

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Abstract Most prior research characterizes information-seeking behaviors as serving utilitarian purposes, such as whether the obtained information can help solve practical problems. However, information-seeking behaviors are sensitive to different contexts (i.e., threat vs. curiosity), despite having equivalent utility.
Xinxu Shen, Chelsea Helion, David V. Smith, Vishnu P. Murty   +3 more
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A study of information seeking behavior

2017
An individual has their own behavioral patterns that exhibit commonalities over different contexts and situations. Several studies have shown (1) dichotomic human mobility patterns in everyday life such as returner vs. explorer, (2) the analogy of the “Explorer” and the “Web Explorer,” and (3) the same brain structure used during both physical and ...
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Contextualizing the information‐seeking behavior of software engineers

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2014
Information seeking in the workplace can vary substantially from one search to the next due to changes in the context of the search. Modeling these dynamic contextual effects is an important challenge facing the research community because it has the potential to lead to more responsive search systems. With this motivation, a study of software engineers
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Disciplinary differences and undergraduates' information‐seeking behavior

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
AbstractThis study applied the Biglan model of disciplinary differences to the information‐seeking behavior patterns of 5,175 undergraduates responding to questions on the College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ). The Biglan model categorizes academic disciplines along three dimensions: (1) hard‐soft, (2) pure‐applied, and (3) life–nonlife ...
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The influence of network structures and information seeking uncertainty on information seeking behavior

2018
People utilize their social networks to get to resources, tangible or otherwise, that aid them in their everyday lives. Information scientists have shown that network characteristics of information structures can indeed influence human information searching and browsing behavior.
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The information seeking and use behaviors of retired investors

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2012
This exploratory study examines the information seeking and use behaviors of a group of US retired or near-retirement investors from everyday life information seeking and serious leisure perspectives. Although primarily qualitative, it also collects and analyzes quanitative data to describe retired investors’ information preferences and use.
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Health Beliefs, Protective Behaviors, and Information-Seeking

Nursing Research
Background The outbreak of COVID-19 caused severe damage to public health globally and served as a stark reminder of the potential for future pandemics. Promoting protective behaviors to prevent the spread of any contagious disease thus remains a priority.
Yen-Wen Liu, Chia-Chun Tang
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Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review

Healthcare (Switzerland), 2021
Xiaoyun Jia, Liangni Sally Liu, Jia Xiaoyun   +2 more
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Systemic bone-seeking radionuclides for palliation of painful osseous metastases: current concepts

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 1998
Wilson C Mertens, E Ben-Josef, Arthur T Porter   +2 more
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Molecular and Circuit-Dynamical Identification of Top-Down Neural Mechanisms for Restraint of Reward Seeking

Cell, 2017
Christina K Kim, Li Ye, Nandini Pichamoorthy   +2 more
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