Overview

From Fear to Flow explores how personality traits may influence attitude, behaviour and reaction to information. Consideration is made for individual differences in information behaviour and reasons behind individual search differences. The book reviews personality and information behaviour and discusses how personality may influence the attitude towards information. Reaction to information is examined in contexts such as everyday life, decision-making, work, studies and human-computer interaction.

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9781843345138

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. ..can be used to develop individual information-seeking skills as information professional, as a self-reflective tool to examine one's characteristics and how these influence the way one interacts with information. -Australian Library Journal . ..the first significant monographic work to link personality types and information behaviour and I'm sure it will shortly be everyone's reading list. -Information Research

can be used to develop individual information-seeking skills as information professional, as a self-reflective tool to examine one s characteristics and how these influence the way one interacts with information., Australian Library Journal the first significant monographic work to link personality types and information behaviour and I'm sure it will shortly be everyone's reading list., Information Research

Author Information

Dr. Jannica Heinstrom has a masters degree in Psychology and a PhD in Information Studies from Abo Akademi University, Finland. She is currently a full time researcher at the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries, Rutgers University, USA. She has extensive research experience in the field of psychological mechanisms of information behaviour, with an emphasis on personality differences. Her work has won numerous prices, including the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, Outstanding Paper Award, 2005.

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