We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …

Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational … predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost of information or stronger priors are less responsive to variations in … economic conditions at destination, as migrants rationally get less information before deciding where to move. The econometric …

What motivates individuals to participate in social activism? Do awareness campaigns and information about others … combat health sector fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic. In different treatment groups, we either provide information about … the three forms of activism. Providing information and correcting downward biased beliefs about others increases petition …

Purpose – This paper aims to gain insights from existing models of information behaviour, building on them to develop a … new model which, unlike most others, encompasses both information seeking and communication. By identifying key factors … affecting the successful communication and use of information, it is hoped that the model will be of practical value both to …

Purpose – The purpose of this review is to draw out patterns of information seeking behavior of graduate students as … databases for studies on information behavior and graduate students was employed in order to retrieve studies for a systematic … information research. Findings – This review revealed that graduate students begin their research on the internet much like any …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between information and coping from the experiences … information providers themselves. From the data, five positions on an information-coping trajectory were identified: information … deficiency; feeling ill-informed; needing an injection of information; having information health; and becoming an information …