Hedonism as a motive for information search: biased information-seeking leads to biased beliefs

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  • who: Matthew Jiwa from the University of of Psychological Sciences, Melbourne, Australia have published the article: Hedonism as a motive for information search: biased information-seeking leads to biased beliefs, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
  • what: The authors aimed to examine the role of the hedonic value of information on information search and belief formation.
  • how: To determine whether the results were attributable to the pursuit of hedonic goals or to differences in perceived credibility due to attentional or weighting factors the authors conducted a follow-up study in a separate . . .

     

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