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Information Avoidance: a Systematic Review [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2021 The aim of this study is to understand the concept of information avoidance in terms of origin, effective factors, behaviors, areas of the previous studies, and research gaps.
Mahsa Torabi, Mahdieh Mirzabeigi
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Information Avoidance and Image Concerns. [PDF]
Econ J (London), 2023 AbstractA rich literature finds that individuals avoid information and suggests that avoidance is driven by image concerns. This paper provides the first direct test of whether individuals avoid information because of image concerns. We build on a classic paradigm, introducing control conditions that make minimal changes to eliminate the role of image ...
Exley CL, Kessler JB.
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Mindfulness reduces information avoidance [PDF]
Economics Letters, 2023 Mindfulness meditation has been found to influence various important outcomes such as health, stress, depression, productivity, and altruism. We report evidence from a randomised-controlled trial on a previously untested effect of mindfulness: information avoidance. We find that a relatively short mindfulness treatment (two weeks, 15 min a day) is able
Elliott Ash +3 more
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Physical health mindsets and information avoidance. [PDF]
J Behav MedAbstractHealth mindsets refer to beliefs about the malleability (growth mindset) versus stability (fixed mindset) of physical health and have gained traction as a predictor of health beliefs and behaviors. Across two studies, we tested whether health mindsets were associated with avoiding personalized health risk information. In Study 2, we also tested
O'Brien AG, Foust JL, Taber JM.
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ARID International Journal of Informetrics, 2022 Information is normally considered as a mean to a desired end. However, a growing theoretical and experimental literature suggested that information may directly enter the agent’s utility function. This can create an incentive to avoid information, even when it is useful, free, and independent of strategic considerations. In this study, the researchers
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The Onset of Habituation Effects
European Journal of Health Communication (EJHC), 2021 While extraordinary events like pandemics may prompt an increase in information-seeking behaviour, such trends are unlikely to be sustainable. Over time, issue fatigue/overdose is expected to set in. This study employed generalised additive mixed models (
Viorela Dan, Hans-Bernd Brosius
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Journal of Economic Literature, 2015 We commonly think of information as a means to an end. However, a growing theoretical and experimental literature suggests that information may directly enter the agent's utility function. This can create an incentive to avoid information, even when it is useful, free, and independent of strategic considerations.
Golman, Russell +2 more
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Health Information Avoidance Behavior of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [PDF]
Journal of Library and Information Studies, 2019 Along with the convenience of receiving health information and the rise of public health consciousness, seeking health information is regarded as a common phenomenon. However, the public is seldom aware of health information avoidance behavior.
Wen-Han Chuang, Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study examines the relationship between cognitive and affective factors and people's information-seeking and -avoiding behaviours in acute risks with a 1,946-sample online survey conducted in February 2020, during the outbreak of the COVID-19 ...
Shuguang Zhao, Yiming Liu
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Journalism and Media, 2022 This paper scrutinizes the phenomenon of issue fatigue and its consequences. Issue fatigue results from overexposure to a news topic that has been on the media’s agenda for an extended period of time.
Christina Schumann
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