The gold miner's dilemma: Use of information scent in cooperative and competitive information foraging

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Highlights：

• We investigate heuristic rules that people adopt in social information search.

• People use information about others' search activities to modify their behavior.

• People pay more attention to others when cooperating, compared to when competing.

摘要

•We investigate heuristic rules that people adopt in social information search.•People use information about others' search activities to modify their behavior.•People pay more attention to others when cooperating, compared to when competing.

论文关键词：Collaboration,Competition,Crowdsourcing,Information foraging,Information scent

论文评审过程：Received 1 November 2019, Revised 12 March 2020, Accepted 19 March 2020, Available online 20 March 2020, Version of Record 6 April 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106352