The role of Internet-specific epistemic beliefs in laypersons’ source evaluations and decisions during Web search on a medical issue

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1193-1203

  Kammerer, Yvonne ^a   Bråten, Ivar ^b   Gerjets, Peter ^a   Strømsø, Helge I ^b  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cued retrospective verbal protocols; Epistemic beliefs; Eye tracking; Source evaluation; Web search

Indexed keywords

EYE TRACKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEBSITES;

EPISTEMIC BELIEFS; INFORMED DECISION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUES; SOURCE EVALUATIONS; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; VERBAL PROTOCOLS; WEB SEARCHES;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

ATTENTION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

EID: 84868499912     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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