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    "pk": 29391,
    "title": "Do you want to know a secret? The role of valence and delay in early informationpreference",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "People tend to place value on information even when it doesnot affect the outcome of a decision. Two competingaccounts offer explanations for such non-instrumentalinformation seeking. One account foregrounds the role ofanticipation and the other focusses on uncertainty aversion.Both accounts make similar predictions for short cue-outcome delays and when outcomes are positively valenced,but they differ in their explanation of information preferenceat long delays with negative outcomes. We present a seriesof experiments involving both primary and secondaryreinforcers that pit these accounts against each other. Theresults indicate a consistent preference for non-instrumentalinformation even at long cue-outcome delays and noevidence for information avoidance with negative outcomes.This pattern appears to provide more support for theuncertainty-aversion account than one based on anticipation.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "information seeking"
        },
        {
            "word": "uncertainty; anticipation;temporal discounting; valence; delay"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Judgement and Decision Making",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xw3m02x",
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        {
            "first_name": "Jake",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Embrey",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UNSW Sydney",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Shi",
            "middle_name": "Xian",
            "last_name": "Liew",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UNSW Sydney",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Danielle",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Navarro",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UNSW Sydney",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ben",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Newell",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UNSW Sydney",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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