The Drive for Knowledge The Science of Human Information Seeking
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.10.2023
Herausgeber
Irene Cogliati Dezza + weitereVerlag
Cambridge AcademicSeitenzahl
314
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.7 cm
Gewicht
422 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-00-901304-8
"In this chapter we discuss the psychological function of "the drive for sense-making," or our innate desire to make sense of the world. We start by discussing why sense-making generates a drive, similar to those associated with the primary reinforcers of food, water, sleep, sex, shelter, and air. In our account, the drive for sense-making fills a critical gap in purely goal-oriented cognition by motivating us to continue investing in knowledge even when we cannot foresee exactly how it will benefit us. We then examine three different factors that shape the particular form sense-making takes: (1) the practical utility of holding accurate beliefs for attaining concrete goals, (2) the motivational significance of some beliefs, which generates a desire to make sense of the world in a way that feels good, and (3) the impact of computational limitations on the sense-making process, especially our limited ability to explicitly predict what information will turn out to be useful. Finally, we turn our attention to how these factors help to explain aberrant sense-making phenomena such as conspiracy theories, science denial, and political polarization"--
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