A threat to loyalty: Fear of missing out (FOMO) leads to reluctance to repeat current experiences

We investigate a popular but underresearched concept, the fear of missing out (FOMO), on desirable experiences of which an individual is aware, but in which they do not partake. Through laboratory and field studies, we establish FOMO’s pervasiveness as a psychological phenomenon, present real-life c...

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Autores principales: Hayran, Ceren, Anik, Lalin, Gürhan-Canli, Zeynep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32353059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232318
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description We investigate a popular but underresearched concept, the fear of missing out (FOMO), on desirable experiences of which an individual is aware, but in which they do not partake. Through laboratory and field studies, we establish FOMO’s pervasiveness as a psychological phenomenon, present real-life contexts wherein FOMO may be experienced, and explore its behavioral consequences. Specifically, we show that FOMO poses a threat to loyalty by decreasing one’s intentions to repeat a current experience and may decrease the valuation of the current experience.
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spelling pubmed-71924372020-05-11 A threat to loyalty: Fear of missing out (FOMO) leads to reluctance to repeat current experiences Hayran, Ceren Anik, Lalin Gürhan-Canli, Zeynep PLoS One Research Article We investigate a popular but underresearched concept, the fear of missing out (FOMO), on desirable experiences of which an individual is aware, but in which they do not partake. Through laboratory and field studies, we establish FOMO’s pervasiveness as a psychological phenomenon, present real-life contexts wherein FOMO may be experienced, and explore its behavioral consequences. Specifically, we show that FOMO poses a threat to loyalty by decreasing one’s intentions to repeat a current experience and may decrease the valuation of the current experience. Public Library of Science 2020-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7192437/ /pubmed/32353059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232318 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication.
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title_short A threat to loyalty: Fear of missing out (FOMO) leads to reluctance to repeat current experiences
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32353059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232318
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