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Is an Idea Different from Cake: Can You Have It and Eat It, Too? A Violation of Permanence in Information Consumption
One of the basic features of information is permanence. This feature states that the consumption of information by one consumer does not affect the availability of that information to other consumers. We present examples in two studies indicating that both laymen and experts of information exchange...
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22848511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041490 |
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author | Li, Shu Li, Yue-Ran Su, Yin Rao, Li-Lin |
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description | One of the basic features of information is permanence. This feature states that the consumption of information by one consumer does not affect the availability of that information to other consumers. We present examples in two studies indicating that both laymen and experts of information exchange may be motivated to make choices that violate the permanence feature in accepting (Study 1) and offering (Study 2) information. When they possess, but have not yet consumed information, people may suffer from the appearance of wastefulness. This apparent wastefulness may provide a potential explanation for the observed violation of the permanence feature. Our findings indicate that, as the material age evolves into the information age, information-exchange behavior has not evolved significantly away from material-exchange behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-34050742012-07-30 Is an Idea Different from Cake: Can You Have It and Eat It, Too? A Violation of Permanence in Information Consumption Li, Shu Li, Yue-Ran Su, Yin Rao, Li-Lin PLoS One Research Article One of the basic features of information is permanence. This feature states that the consumption of information by one consumer does not affect the availability of that information to other consumers. We present examples in two studies indicating that both laymen and experts of information exchange may be motivated to make choices that violate the permanence feature in accepting (Study 1) and offering (Study 2) information. When they possess, but have not yet consumed information, people may suffer from the appearance of wastefulness. This apparent wastefulness may provide a potential explanation for the observed violation of the permanence feature. Our findings indicate that, as the material age evolves into the information age, information-exchange behavior has not evolved significantly away from material-exchange behavior. Public Library of Science 2012-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3405074/ /pubmed/22848511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041490 Text en Li et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Li, Shu Li, Yue-Ran Su, Yin Rao, Li-Lin Is an Idea Different from Cake: Can You Have It and Eat It, Too? A Violation of Permanence in Information Consumption |
title | Is an Idea Different from Cake: Can You Have It and Eat It, Too? A Violation of Permanence in Information Consumption |
title_full | Is an Idea Different from Cake: Can You Have It and Eat It, Too? A Violation of Permanence in Information Consumption |
title_fullStr | Is an Idea Different from Cake: Can You Have It and Eat It, Too? A Violation of Permanence in Information Consumption |
title_full_unstemmed | Is an Idea Different from Cake: Can You Have It and Eat It, Too? A Violation of Permanence in Information Consumption |
title_short | Is an Idea Different from Cake: Can You Have It and Eat It, Too? A Violation of Permanence in Information Consumption |
title_sort | is an idea different from cake: can you have it and eat it, too? a violation of permanence in information consumption |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22848511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041490 |
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