Threatened individuals prefer positive information during Internet search: An experimental laboratory study

Greving, Hannah; Sassenberg, Kai

doi:10.5817/cp2018-1-6

Cited by 6 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 35 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This focus on positive information under threat was also found when testing the impact of threat vs. challenge and control conditions on the selection of links from a search engine results list. Greving and Sassenberg (2018) manipulated threat, challenge and a neutral control condition as described above among 116 undergraduate students. Afterwards, participants were asked to inform themselves about living organ donation by selecting links from a list with four neutral (e.g., "organ donation committee"), six positive (e.g., "organ donation can save lives") and six negative links (e.g., "possible side effects").…”

Section: Evidence On the Outcomes Of Motivational Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Linking regulatory focus and threat–challenge: transitions between and outcomes of four motivational states

Sassenberg

Scholl

2019

European Review of Social Psychology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Self-regulation research has flourished for the last three decades. In social psychology and beyond, a number of motivational approaches have been developed and these have provided new insights about numerous phenomena. However, a theoretical integration of these approaches is lacking, as are empirical comparisons across theories. This article seeks to make a step towards closing this gap. We do so by suggesting a model that specifies the relation between threat and challengeas defined by the Biopsychosocial Model of arousal regulationon the one hand, and promotion and prevention focusas defined by Regulatory Focus Theoryon the other hand. In addition, the literature on the relation between these four motivational states and their impact on (a) the processing of valenced information and (b) the preference for (social) contexts is reviewed. Finally, we identify avenues for further research.

show abstract

Section: Evidence On the Outcomes Of Motivational Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Figure 2. Means and standard errors for a positive bias in link selection and webpage scanning fromGreving and Sassenberg (2018).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Linking regulatory focus and threat–challenge: transitions between and outcomes of four motivational states

Sassenberg

Scholl

2019

European Review of Social Psychology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Illustrations Before Text Reduce Visuospatial Working Memory Load During Text Processing

Schüler

Mayer²

2020

Discourse Processes

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Dynamics of Information Search Queries about COVID-19 at the Self-Isolation Stage

Belinskaya

Stolbova

Tsikina

2020

Social Psychology and Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objective. Studying the dynamics of information search queries in the situation of experiencing an objective global threat-the spread of COVID-19. Background. The pandemic situation is specific because of its universality, uncertain duration and weak predictability of disease manifestations, which suggests the cumulative nature of this stressor. The uniqueness of its socio-psychological consequences is determined by the experience of self-isolation in a virtual space. The dynamics of search queries in large random samples may reflect both the reaction of the population to the statements of power subjects, and the presence of certain mechanisms of emotional self-regulation. Study design. We analyzed search queries thematically related to the spread of COVID-19 and the introduction of self-isolation mode: 5 million search queries were randomly selected from the database, 1 million for each of the analyzed time intervals. Participants. The study was conducted on users of the Yandex search engine. Methods. Quantitative methods of the Data Mining class were used for data collection. Qualitative methods of the Data Mining class and contextual analysis were used for data analysis. Microsoft Excel tools were used for statistical code processing. Results. The number of information requests on the topic of the pandemic increased sharply after V. Putin’s first address, and then steadily decreased, but the overall picture of the content dynamics of search queries, depending on official statements of the authorities, was not observed; requests about the current level of morbidity are constantly presented to the greatest extent, and to the minimum-about the possibilities of psychological assistance and the state of the Russian economy. During the whole time of the study the contents of the Internet search shifted towards positive emotional information. Conclusions. To the maximum extent, the relationship between the experience of a pandemic and self-isolation with the nature of search queries manifests itself at the initial stages and tends to decrease in the future. The dynamics of the content of requests is ambiguously related to official statements of power subjects, influenced by the effect of counter-regulation.

show abstract

Threatened individuals prefer positive information during Internet search: An experimental laboratory study

Abstract: The Internet is the main source for information search and it is increasingly used in the health domain. Such

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Linking regulatory focus and threat–challenge: transitions between and outcomes of four motivational states

Linking regulatory focus and threat–challenge: transitions between and outcomes of four motivational states

Illustrations Before Text Reduce Visuospatial Working Memory Load During Text Processing

The Dynamics of Information Search Queries about COVID-19 at the Self-Isolation Stage

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About