Avoiding versus seeking: the relationship of information seeking to avoidance, blunting, coping, dissonance, and related concepts.

By D. O. Case, J. Andrews, J. D. Johnson, Suzanne L. Allard. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2005

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What motivates Chinese consumers to avoid information about the COVID-19 pandemic?: The perspective of the stimulus-organism-response model (2020, background): “341), and it consists of both active and passive avoidance (Narayan, Case & Edwards, 2011). Active information avoidance refers to the behavior of intentionally avoiding information, whereas passive information avoidance involves ignoring received information or failing to take further steps to proc”
Yes, we can: motivate Dutch citizens to engage in self-protective behavior with regard to flood risks (2011, background): “The seeking of information has emerged as an important topic within risk communication over the past few years and can be described as a deliberate effort to acquire information in response to a need or gap in ones knowledge (Griffin et al. 1999; 2008; Case et al. 2005).”
An Augmented Risk Information Seeking Model: The Case of Global Warming (2007, unknown): “Brashers, Goldsmith, & Hsieh, 2002 ; Brashers, Neidig, & Goldsmith, 2004 ; Case, Andrews, Johnson, & Allard, 2005 ; Feltwell & Rees, 2004 ).”
Health Information—Seeking Behavior (2007, background): “…need is not sufficient to prompt HISB; rather, several personal and contextual factors influence whether and how an individual responds to an information need (Allen, 1996; Case et al., 2005; Czaja et al., 2003; Loiselle, 2001; Loiselle & Delvigne-Jean, 1998; Shiloh, Sinai, et al., 1999).”
Information overload in the information age: a review of the literature from business administration, business psychology, and related disciplines with a bibliometric approach and framework development (2018, background): “…MS Klausegger et al. (2007) Epistemic motivation PSY Amit and Sagiv (2013) Awareness IS Saparova et al. (2013) Information avoidance tendency HE Case et al. (2005) Health status HE Chan and Huang (2013) PSY Hallowell (2005) User’s allegiance IS Hsu and Liao (2014) Fairness attitude IS Roetzel…”
Information seeking behaviour : a conceptual framework (2013, background): “…model specifically borrowed from other disciplines such as psychology, decision making, innovation and health communication and consumer research (Case et al., 2005), Using specific theories, Wilson explains how needs prompt people’s information seeking behaviour, source preference, and why some…”
The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies (2009, background): “It is often dealt with by the simple, if brutal, tactic of information avoidance: ignoring relevant information and useful information sources because there is too much to deal with [33, 34].”