Reassessing the Role of Anxiety in Information Seeking
Description:
Previous research of the theory of Affective Intelligence holds that anxiety in individuals causes learning behavior. If people are anxious they will actively seek new information. This new information gathered while anxious will cause each individual person to cease acting habitually and begin acting in a manner in line with rational choice models. This thesis addresses three hypotheses; (1) that people who feel anxiety engage in greater information seeking behavior and (2) when people feel…
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Date:
August 2008
Creator:
Williams, Christopher J.
Partner:
UNT Libraries