Self-evaluative intrusive thoughts impede successful searching on the Internet

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-101

  Yee, Penny L ^a   Hsieh Yee, Ingrid ^b   Pierce, Gregory R ^a   Grome, Rebekah ^a   Schantz, Lindsey ^a  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive interference; Information processing load; Information search behavior; Internet use; Intrusive thoughts; Self evaluative thoughts

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION USE; ONLINE SEARCHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

COGNITIVE INTERFERENCE; INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS; SELF-EVALUATIVE THOUGHTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0345356257     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0747-5632(03)00042-6     Document Type: Article

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