Coffee and Conversation! Thursday, August 7, 2014
Coffee and Conversation!
Is your searching/information seeking biased?
Take a break and join us for an informal discussion on bias in information seeking.
Our discussion will focus on the following questions:
· Can bias affect information seeking/information retrieval? If yes, what is the bias and how does it impact information seeking?
· What should we be aware of within our own thinking when searching?
· What steps/actions can we take to reduce the impact of bias in our searching?
Lorri Zipperer, Rebecca Graves and Barb Jones will be discussing the following articles:
Windschitl, PD, Scherer, AM, Smith, AR, Rose, JP. “Why so confident? The influence of outcome desirability on selective exposure and likelihood judgment.” (2013) Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 120 (1), pp. 73-86.
http://www.appstate.edu/~smithar3/articles/Windschitl_et_al-Why_so_confident.pdf
Scherer, AM, Windschitl, PD and Smith AR. “Hope to be right: Biased information seeking following arbitrary and informed predictions” (2013) Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 49 (1) pp. 106-112.
http://www2.psychology.uiowa.edu/students/scherer/Documents/Scherer%20et%20al%202013%20JESP.pdf
Hart, W, etal. “Feeling validated versus being correct: a meta-analysis of selective exposure to information” Psychological Bulletin, 2009, 135 (4), ppl 555-588.
http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/feeling_validated_versus_being_correct_-_a_me...
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