“…Dobransky and Hargittai (2012) found that sex significantly predicted online health information seeking for information related to health treatments, such that females were more likely to seek out health information than males. This work is consistent with a raft of studies suggesting that females are more avid information-seekers in a variety of health-related contexts -ranging from general health information seeking to cancer-related information (Atkinson, Saperstein, & Pleis, 2009;Finney Rutten, Squiers, & Hesse, 2006;Petty, 2012) -perhaps owing to their more cautious nature in risk contexts (Booth, Cardona-Sosa, & Nolen, 2014). Based on that rationale, we posit that:…”