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Information Behavior and Political Preferences
This article shows that citizens consider policy positions for the formation of their political preferences when they actively seek and find high-quality information, while they dismiss passively acquired and low-quality information. The study develops an extended theory of information and political preferences that incorporates the process of information acquisition and its connection with information quality. A novel experimental design separates the effects on political preferences due to information behavior as an activity from those due to selective exposure to information. The study applies this design in a laboratory experiment with a diverse group of participants using the example of issue voting and European integration in the context of the 2014 European Parliament elections
Does Information Change Behavior?
This paper reviews and synthesizes the theory of information economics and empirical evidence on how information changes the behavior of consumers, households and firms. I show that consumers respond to new information in food experiments but perhaps not in retirement account management. Some seeming perverse consumer/investor decision making may be a result of a complex decision with a low expected payoff.moral hazard; information economics; consumer behavior; behavioral economics; adverse selection
A Human Information Behavior Approach to a Philosophy of Information
This paper outlines the relation between philosophy of information
(PI) and human information behavior (HIB). In this paper, we first
briefly outline the basic constructs and approaches of PI and HIB. We argue
that a strong relation exists between PI and HIB, as both are exploring
the concept of information and premise information as a fundamental
concept basic to human existence. We then exemplify that a heuristic
approach to PI integrates the HIB view of information as a cognitive human-
initiated process by presenting a specific cognitive architecture for
information initiation based on modular notion from HIB/evolutionary
psychology and the vacuum mechanism from PI.published or submitted for publicatio
Altruistic Behavior Under Incomplete Information
Models to the issue of altruism which rely on externalities of well-being are rarely used explicitly. In this paper we compare such utility-based approaches with the standard approach on altruism which is based on externalities of income. Testable differences of both types of models are derived in the case of incomplete information. More specifically, applied to the Dictator Game and the Impunity Game both played under incomplete information, the utility-based based approach predicts dictators to change their behavior in comparison to Dictator Games under complete information. Under the income-based approach, behavior should not differ in the three versions of the Dictator Game. --Altruism,Incomplete Information,Consistent Expectations
Information dynamics: Temporal behavior of uncertainty measures
We carry out a systematic study of uncertainty measures that are generic to
dynamical processes of varied origins, provided they induce suitable continuous
probability distributions. The major technical tool are the information theory
methods and inequalities satisfied by Fisher and Shannon information measures.
We focus on a compatibility of these inequalities with the prescribed
(deterministic, random or quantum) temporal behavior of pertinent probability
densities.Comment: Incorporates cond-mat/0604538, title, abstract changed, text
modified, to appear in Cent. Eur. J. Phy
Using History to Study Information Seeking Behavior
has focused on approaches that provide a snapshot in time of what
is going on in a household. This poster explores the use of history
to examine changes over time in both information questions and
information sources used in the prosecution of everyday life
activities in America. The study is based on identifying
endogenous and exogenous forces to the activity at hand, and
seeing how these forces cause change. A secondary question
raised in this poster is the largely unexamined belief that the
Internet has played an exceptional role in changing the nature of
everyday information seeking behavior in America. The case of
100 years of car buying in America is used as a particular
example, drawn from a larger study of nine everyday American
activities
Characterization of Vehicle Behavior with Information Theory
This work proposes the use of Information Theory for the characterization of
vehicles behavior through their velocities. Three public data sets were used:
i.Mobile Century data set collected on Highway I-880, near Union City,
California; ii.Borl\"ange GPS data set collected in the Swedish city of
Borl\"ange; and iii.Beijing taxicabs data set collected in Beijing, China,
where each vehicle speed is stored as a time series. The Bandt-Pompe
methodology combined with the Complexity-Entropy plane were used to identify
different regimes and behaviors. The global velocity is compatible with a
correlated noise with f^{-k} Power Spectrum with k >= 0. With this we identify
traffic behaviors as, for instance, random velocities (k aprox. 0) when there
is congestion, and more correlated velocities (k aprox. 3) in the presence of
free traffic flow
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