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The role of information avoidance in everyday‐life information behaviors [PDF]
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2011 AbstractThis paper presents the results from a study of information behaviors in the context of people's everyday lives as part of a larger study of information behaviors (IB). 34 participants from across 6 countries maintained a daily information journal or diary – mainly through a secure web log – for two weeks, to an aggregate of 468 participant ...
Bhuva Narayan +2 more
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Information avoidance by younger adults with Type 1 diabetes: a preliminary empirical study [PDF]
Information Research: An International Electronic JournalIntroduction. People with Type 1 diabetes need to collect data to calculate their own insulin doses, and collect information about potential complications. However, information avoidance may be a barrier to such activities. Method.
Bruce Ryan, Gemma Webster
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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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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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, 2020 Avoidance-Avoidance is a book that assembles a project where a play is staged amongst art works and presented in four iterative exhibitions and performances.
Ash, Jesse
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Automatic collision avoidance of ships [PDF]
, 2008 One of the key elements in automatic simulation of ship manoeuvring in confined waterways is route finding and collision avoidance. This paper presents a new practical method of automatic trajectory planning and collision avoidance based on an artificial
Lee, B.S., Han, D., Xue, Y.
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Health Behavior Research, 2022 Public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been insufficient at keeping the virus from spreading rapidly and threatening public health around the globe. Not only has society been challenged by biomedical issues of disease contagion, infection,
Xuewei Chen +3 more
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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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Delaying information search [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 In three studies, we examined factors that may temporarily attenuate information search. People are generally curious and dislike uncertainty, which typically encourages them to look for relevant information.
Yaniv Shani +2 more
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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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