Digital Library (DL) has become a mean to distribute multimedia contents in the networked information environment. Previous researchers have suggested ways to improve the design of multimedia DLs, however, users’ information seeking behavior is often neglected. Existing studies on users’ searching behavior do not provide any insights specifically into the behavior of users searching for multime...

This study investigates individual temperament and character effects on bidding behavior in a first-price sealed-bid auction with independent private value frameworks. Preceding studies on experimental first-price auctions reported that selection biases, such as risk attitude (Cox et al. 1988), gender (Ham and Kagel, 2006), sex hormone cycle (Chen et al. 2013; Pearson and Schipper, 2013), cause...

It is well established that individual rats exhibit marked differences in behavioral responses to a novel environment. Rats that exhibit high rates of locomotor activity and sustained exploration in such an environment also exhibit high concentrations of stress-induced plasma corticosterone, linking this behavior to the stress system. Furthermore, these high-responding (HR) rats, in contrast to...

Previous research has identified a relationship between season of birth and level of novelty seeking (Chotai, Lundberg, & Adolfsson, 2003). The current study investigates whether level of sensation seeking is also related to birth season in individuals from the Northern Hemisphere. Participants were 448 students of The Open University, UK (125 males, 323 females, age range 20–69 years, mean = 3...

Parkinson's disease (PD) patients display low novelty seeking scores on the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), which may reflect the low dopamine function that characterises the disease. People with PD also display raised harm avoidance scores. Due to these and other observations, a "parkinsonian personality" has been suggested. However, little is known about how these features rel...