What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance

By Z. Janet Yang, LeeAnn Kahlor. 2013

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Online Information Seeking and Disease Prevention Intent During COVID-19 Outbreak (2020, background): “Several RISP-related studies have also demonstrated that affective responses could influence individuals’ perception of information insufficiency about the risk (H. K. Kim & Kim, 2019; Yang & Kahlor, 2012).”
Application of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model to Investigate Purchase Intention of Green Products among Thai Consumers (2016, background): “Yang and Kahlor [102] proposed that when people perceive that others expect them to know about environmental issues, they might purposely present themselves as knowing a lot about this issue.”
A Metacognitive Approach to Reconsidering Risk Perceptions and Uncertainty: Understand Information Seeking During COVID-19 (2020, methodology): “Scholars also suggested the importance of studying positive emotions, including hope, happiness, and relief (Rains & Tukachinsky, 2015; Yang & Kahlor, 2012).”
From information seeking to information avoidance: Understanding the health information behavior during a global health crisis (2020, background): “IS2- I have looked at different information sources to obtain information about COVID-19 Yang and Kahlor (2013)”
Conditions for Transformative Learning for Sustainable Development: A Theoretical Review and Approach (2018, background): “For instance, climate worry has been linked to an inclination to search for more information about the problem [127,128].”
Applying the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model to Examine Support for Climate Change Mitigation Policy (2014, methodology): “In addition to the specific negative emotions assessed in previous research on climate change (Yang & Kahlor, 2013), guilt was assessed as representing a specific moral emotion (Tangney et al., 2007).”
Effects of COVID-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing: A Multicountry Comparative Study (2020, methodology): “Affective responses, which result from risk perceptions, increase an individual’s desire for information (Griffin et al., 2008; So et al., 2019; Yang & Kahlor, 2013).”