Autonomy, Testimony and Informational Diversity

Diversity as an Objective in Informational Retrieval

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Reactance, autonomy and paths to persuasion: Examining perceptions of threats to freedom and informational value

Autonomy, often associated with an open and reflective evaluation of experience, is sometimes confused with reactance, which indicates resistance to persuasion attempts. Two studies examined a path model in which autonomy and reactance predicted motivation following the provision of anonymous or source-identified health-risk information, via the mediation of perceived threat to decision-making ...

Effects of task autonomy on performance: an extended model considering motivational, informational, and structural mechanisms.

A model explaining the relationship between task autonomy and performance is proposed that incorporates 3 different causal mechanisms. The performance benefits of task autonomy may be realized by increased motivation (motivational mechanisms), by capitalization of information asymmetries (informational mechanisms), or by better alignment with task and organizational structures (structural mecha...

Testimony and Illusion

Testimony, Transmission, and Safety

a 4 : 1 pp. 27 – 43, 2008 TESTIMONY, TRANSMISSION, AND SAFETY