Purpose Misinformation is a significant phenomenon in today's world: the purpose of this paper is to explore the motivations behind the creation and use of misinformation. Design/methodology/approach A literature review was undertaken, covering the English and Russian language sources. Content...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to review the psychological literature on curiosity and its relationship to information-seeking behaviour, and compare this with the information science literature on the same subject. Design/methodology/approach The approach adopted is that of a comparative...