The effect of information seeking behaviors in fear control

Restrepo-Castro, Juan C.; Labrador, Francisco J.; Gantiva, Carlos; Camacho, Katherine; Castro-Camacho, Leonidas

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101797

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“…Animals are also motivated to reduce uncertainty even when such information cannot be used to improve outcomes (Bromberg-Martin & Hikosaka, 2009). Older rodent work suggests that high and low fear states are involved with lower exploration rates, yet intermediate threat increases exploration suggesting a U-Shaped curve in behavior (Lester, 1968) In humans, information seeking is increased when avoidance or escape are not available (Restrepo-Castro et al, 2023). Further, the ability to adaptively seek out information may depend on contextual factors that can increase or decrease survival in anxiety.…”

Section: Generalization and Specialization Results In Exploration Cur...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Survival Decisions in a Multidimensional World

Mobbs¹,

Wise²,

Tashjian³

et al. 2023

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A fundamental challenge for humans—and other animals—is to survive in response to a natural diversity of dangers. Here, we provide a new perspective called Adaptive Threat Coding (ATC), where human defensive behavior is constructed in response to sensory, inferential, internal and subjective states that facilitate survival in a multidimensional landscape of danger. In humans, these states are guided by culture and social norms that influence the defensive response (e.g., avoidance of shame). The ATC model proposes that two contiguous survival strategies emerge: generalization, which is associated with representations that have high dimensionality and which furnish flexible cognitive heuristics (including efficient perceptual and conceptual representations, relations between threats, higher-order imagination, memory) and which converge through the construction of defensive states and via transfer learning. These representations support generalization and ‘explorative’ behaviors including information seeking and curiosity, where the goal is to increase situational awareness that can be used to mitigate current and future threat. Conversely, specialization entails lower dimensional representations, which underpin specialized, ‘exploitative’ behaviors. This specialization facilitates the economic execution of defensive behaviors, that are generated through a combination of learning and innate configuration. We finally propose that systems implicated in specialization and generalization coalesce through active inference and learning—and that this captures a central adaptive feature of human defensive systems; namely, self-preservation in response to a mélange of threats across diverse ecologies.

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Section: Generalization and Specialization Results In Exploration Cur...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Survival Decisions in a Multidimensional World

Mobbs¹,

Wise²,

Tashjian³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…4). Restrepo-Castro et al (2023) found that when people are unable to escape from or avoid a fearful situation they seek information that will enable them to control their fear and reduce fear levels. They comment, however:…”

Section: Psychology Of Emotionsmentioning

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Approaches to information-seeking behaviour in psychology: a comparison of early and contemporary studies

Wilson

2024

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Introduction. The aim of this paper is to explore the investigation of information-seeking behaviour in the literature of psychology, with special reference to the period before 1981, when the term was introduced into information science, and compare the research of that period, with research reported in 2022-2023. Method. A search of the literature for the term ‘information-seeking behaviour’ was carried out in Web of Science and Scopus for the period 1900 to 1980 and from January 2022 to May 2023, producing two data sets for analysis. Analysis. Descriptive analysis of sources and geographic distribution of the papers is presented. This is followed by an analysis of the research themes and approaches. Results. In the early set of papers the main context of the research was educational and career counselling and the main research perspective social learning theory, with an emphasis on the concept of locus of control. In the later set, the main theoretical interest was in aspects of cognition, with a particular interest in curiosity. Conclusion. There is much that the information science research can learn and apply from the literature of psychology. In particular, social learning theory, cognitive theory, and the associated research instruments could be of value.

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“…For instance, the phenomenon has been presented that the amount of time people spend on social media has surged dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic and that the occurrence of the health crisis has increased people's inspiration to deal with heuristic processing (Giuntella et al, 2021;Lee et al, 2023). People tend to obtain information to help themselves calm down and maintain homoeostasis, which means that when they encounter a fear, they tend to search for information for comfort, and this increases their heuristic processing and systematic processing (Restrepo-Castro et al, 2023). Tan et al (2021) suggested that heuristic and systematic cues influence consumers' information cues and information search, respectively, which will affect their purchase intention and behavior (Tan et al, 2021).…”

Section: Information Search Heuristic Processing and Systematic Proce...mentioning

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“…In summary, the higher the level of risk perceived by consumers, the lower will be their purchase intention. When a person encounters a threat, they conduct an information search to assess whether the current environment is safe (Restrepo‐Castro et al, 2023). Therefore, risk perception has an impact on people's information search.…”

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Impact of information processing on purchase intention in new energy vehicle product harm crises

Zhu,

Chen,

Zeng

2023

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Within the increasingly complex and changeable market environment of new energy vehicles, consumers' attention to product safety has increased significantly, and higher, updated requirements are put forward at the level of product safety. Simultaneously, a product harm crisis, which often entails product recalls, can lead to consumer concerns regarding product specifications and security. Based on the heuristic‐systematic model, this study verified the effect of information processing on the vehicle purchase intention of consumers during crisis situations and conducted an empirical study through questionnaires and structural equation modelling. The data obtained in this study presents the following relationships: (1) risk perception has a significant and positive influence on information search and systematic processing but a negative influence on heuristic processing; (2) heuristic processing and systematic processing have a significant and positive influence on purchase intention; (3) information search has a significant and positive influence on heuristic processing and systematic processing. The study can offer a relevant basis and suggestions for risk communication of new energy vehicle enterprises, thereby fundamentally improving consumer loyalty.

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The effect of information seeking behaviors in fear control

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Survival Decisions in a Multidimensional World

Survival Decisions in a Multidimensional World

Approaches to information-seeking behaviour in psychology: a comparison of early and contemporary studies

Impact of information processing on purchase intention in new energy vehicle product harm crises

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