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INFORMATION AND SELF-ORGANIZATION OF BEHAVIOR [PDF]
Advances in Complex Systems, 2013 The goal of Guided Self-Organization (GSO) is to leverage the strengths of selforganization while still being able to direct the outcome of the self-organizing process. GSO typically has the following features: (i) an increase in organization (structure and/or functionality) over some time; (ii) the local interactions are not explicitly guided by any ...
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Information and Consumer Behavior
Journal of Political Economy, 1970Consumers are continually making choices among products, the consequences of which they are but dimly aware. Not only do consumers lack full information about the prices of goods, but their information is probably even poorer about the quality variation of products simply because the latter information is more difficult to obtain. One can, for example,
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Information behavior in stages of exercise behavior change
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2012This study augments the transtheoretical model (TTM) of behavior change with the concepts of information behavior and employs this framework to understand young men's needs for and practices of obtaining and avoiding information on physical activity and exercise in relation to their readiness to change exercise behavior.
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Behavioral Obligation and Information Avoidance
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2012Although knowledge can be powerful and bring a variety of important benefits, people often opt to remain ignorant.We propose that people are particularly inclined to remain ignorant when learning information could obligate undesirable behavior.In three studies, participants completed an online risk calculator and then learned that receiving high-risk ...
Jennifer L, Howell, James A, Shepperd
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Information in the behavior stream
Behavioural Processes, 2002The dynamic of a series of responses for four pigeons is analyzed using a discrete fast Fourier transform (FFT) and a measure of behavior's predictability. FFTs of moment-to-moment response rates reliably exhibited a continuous distribution for three of the four birds, with most of the power falling in the low frequencies-red noise.
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Racetrack betting and informed behavior
Journal of Financial Economics, 1982Abstract Horse racing data permit interesting tests of attitudes toward risk. The present paper studies a new sample of racetrack results from Atlantic City, New Jersey. The questions examined are: (1) Are the market odds the best data for predicting the order of finish? (2) Do horses go off at odds that reflect their true probability of winning? (3)
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Health Information—Seeking Behavior
Qualitative Health Research, 2007Seeking information about one's health is increasingly documented as a key coping strategy in health-promotive activities and psychosocial adjustment to illness. In this article, the authors critically examine the scientific literature from 1982 to 2006 on the concept of health information—seeking behavior (HISB) to determine its level of maturity and ...
Sylvie D, Lambert, Carmen G, Loiselle
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The behavioral side of information technology
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 1999Exposure to technologies is becoming more prevalent in healthcare technologies. Few strategies have been developed that work reliably to successfully implement information technologies. Information technology enables, but does not guarantee organizational change.
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