{"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":{"name":"","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","frozenauthors":[{"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","department":""},{"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","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29391/galley/19252/download/"}]}