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An Energizing Role for Motivation in Information-Seeking During the Early Phase of the COVID- 19 Pandemic

2020-11-11

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<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding and managing information seeking behavior. Information-seeking in humans is often viewed as irrational rather than utility maximizing. Here, we hypothesized that this apparent disconnect between utility and information-seeking is due to a latent third variable, motivation. We quantified information-seeking, learning, and COVID-19-related conc...

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Literature Corpus work: 131eba2e-9641-51a3-b261-9a13b885be0c
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hcta4

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