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  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Decision Science

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  • Knowledge is distributed, necessitating information sharing for societal benefit.
  • Information sharing involves complex decisions due to potential positive and negative impacts on actions, affect, and cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how individuals integrate potentially conflicting consequences of knowledge when deciding whether to inform others.
  • To identify the factors influencing information-sharing decisions and their underlying psychological mechanisms.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments (N=114, N=102) were conducted to examine information-sharing behaviors.
  • Participants' decisions were analyzed using cluster analysis to identify distinct weighting patterns for decision factors.
  • The study assessed the integration of information usefulness, valence, and receiver uncertainty in decision-making.

Main Results:

  • Participants utilize their own information-seeking preferences when making information-sharing decisions.
  • A value-of-information calculation, integrating usefulness, valence, and uncertainty, explains information-sharing decisions.
  • Cluster analysis revealed distinct groups based on how participants weighted these factors.

Conclusions:

  • Individuals often adopt the receiver's perspective to make informed decisions about sharing knowledge.
  • The relative influence of decision factors remains stable across information-seeking and sharing contexts within individuals.
  • Findings contribute to predicting when and why people choose to share information.