The study of information: interdisciplinary messages
The study of information: interdisciplinary messages
Expert judgment and expert systems
Expert judgment and expert systems
The cognitive viewpoint in information science
Journal of Information Science
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
A general model of the information seeking of professionals: role theory through the back door?
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Meta-information, and time: factors in human decision making
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Context, power, bodies and information: exploring the 'entangled' contexts of information
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Investigating patterns in information seeking: concepts in contexts
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Exploring models of information behaviour: the 'Uncertainty' Project
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Can institutional theory contribute to our understanding of information seeking behaviour
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Information seekers in context: an analysis of the 'doer' in INSU studies
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Three conceptions of information seeking and use
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Discourse: a new theoretical framework for examining information behaviour in its social context
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Exploring the contexts of information behaviour
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Cognitive style and on-line database search experience as predictors of web search performance
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma
Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma
Person and context in information seeking: interactions between cognitive and task variables
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Gender and cultural aspects of information seeking and use
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
The origins and contextual use of theory in human information behaviour research
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
The influence of context on users' responses to websites
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Toward wellness: women seeking health information
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
The reality of media preferences: do professional groups vary in awareness?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
An empirical analysis of engineers' information behaviors
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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To better understand how individuals and groups derive satisfaction from information, it is important to identify the information source preferences they apply in information seeking and decision making. Four informal propositions drove the structure and underlying logic of this study, forming a preliminary outline of a theory of information source preference profiles and their influence on information satisfaction. This study employed Social Judgment Analysis (SJA) to identify the information judgment preferences held by professional groups for six selected information sources: word of mouth, expert oral advice, Internet, print news, nonfiction books, and radio/television news. The research was designed as an hypothesis-generating exploratory study employing a purposive sample (n = 90) and generated four empirically supported, testable hypotheses about user satisfaction with information sources. The SJA judgment functions revealed the influences of volume and polarity (i.e., positive versus negative information) on information satisfaction. By advancing the understanding of how information source preferences can be identified empirically and their influence on information satisfaction, this research reflects a first, small step toward understanding "satisficing." Satisficing behaviors result in early termination of information search processes when individuals, facing incomplete information, are sufficiently satisfied to assume risks and execute decisions.