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    "pk": 49219,
    "title": "How goals affect information seeking",
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    "abstract": "This study investigates how goals influence information sampling strategies in active learning. Previous work in this area compared different sampling heuristics while holding constant participants' goals (e.g., the final incentivized test). In a behavioral experiment, we examine the effect of generation-driven versus discrimination-driven goals on information-seeking sampling strategies by manipulating the (pre-declared) test condition across subjects. Our results suggest that goals affect information sampling, with discrimination-driven tasks leading to more sampling around class borders (\"Label-Margin\" sampling strategy) and generation-driven tasks leading to more sampling around class centers (\"Most-Certain\" sampling strategy). Moreover, we show that strategies evolve over time and are related to the performance of participants. These findings highlight the importance of considering goals in understanding human information-seeking behavior.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Cognitive Neuroscience; Decision making"
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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            "first_name": "Gili",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Karni",
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            "institution": "Princeton",
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            "first_name": "Nathaniel",
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            "last_name": "Daw",
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            "institution": "Princeton University",
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            "last_name": "Niv",
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            "institution": "Princeton University",
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    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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