What motivates Chinese consumers to avoid information about the COVID-19 pandemic?: The perspective of the stimulus-organism-response model

S Song, X Yao, N Wen - Information Processing & Management, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigated consumers' information-avoidance behavior in the context of a public
health emergency—the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Guided by the stimulus-organism …

Behavioral development economics

M Kremer, G Rao, F Schilbach - Handbook of behavioral economics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

[HTML][HTML] Online health information seeking among patients with chronic conditions: integrating the health belief model and social support theory

YC Zhao, M Zhao, S Song - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability. With the
growing patient population and climbing health care expenditures, researchers and policy …

[HTML][HTML] Using curiosity to counter health information avoidance

S Horn, Y Litovsky, G Loewenstein - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Information that is beneficial for health decision-making is often ignored or actively
avoided. Countering information avoidance can increase knowledge of disease risk factors …

Studying information acquisition in the field: A practical guide and review

F Capozza, I Haaland, C Roth… - Available at SSRN …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
We review the emerging literature on information acquisition in field settings. We first
document an increase in studies on information acquisition and review relevant studies in …

低风险疾病情境下农村居民健康信息规避行为研究

韩正彪, 周明峰, 岳杭 - 农业图书情报学报, 2021 - nytsqb.aiijournal.com
[目的/意义] 本研究旨在揭示低风险疾病情境下农村居民健康信息规避的程度, 策略,
成因及其关联.[方法/过程] 研究采用理论抽样方法和半结构化访谈法收集了江苏省45 …

Attention and dread: experimental evidence on preferences for information

A Falk, F Zimmermann - Management Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Recent models assume that the anticipation of future consumption can have direct utility
consequences. This gives rise to preferences over the timing and structure of information …

Anti-Brand activism in the collectivist orientation: the case of online-consumers-run communities

HN Do, NB Do, TM Nguyen… - Journal of Promotion …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The paper investigates the impact of negative online word-of-mouth (OWOM) generated
from online consumer-run communities on brand hate and brand activism and the …

Research on the process and influencing factors of online diabetes information users' avoidance behavior: a qualitative study

C Guo, L Si, Y Sun - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Users' avoidance behavior of health information has received growing attention recently, but
research into users' avoidance behavior of diabetes information remains limited. This paper …

[HTML][HTML] Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance

J Schünemann, H Strulik, T Trimborn - Journal of Health Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
We integrate anticipatory utility and endogenous beliefs about future negative health shocks
into a life-cycle model of physiological aging. Individuals care about their future utility …