Technological progress and tourist information search strategies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Zohreh Zara Zarezadeh
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Tourist Information

A Typology of Tourist Information Search Strategies

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Fodness ◽  
Brian Murray
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Tourist Information

The Effects of Decision Aid Design on the Information Search Strategies and Confirmation Bias of Tax Professionals

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Wheeler ◽  
Vairam Arunachalam
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Decision Aid ◽  
Confirmation Bias ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Tax Professionals ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Factor Evaluation ◽  
Tax Research

We report the results of a study involving 142 tax professionals designed to investigate the effects of decision aid design on information search (i.e., tax research) and confirmation bias. Results indicate that the participants exhibited confirmation bias when conducting tax research for clients. That is, participants showed a tendency to preferentially select information in support of their earlier recommendations to the client, even when the recommendation disagreed with the client's subsequent tax position. Results also indicate that while some decision aid features can reduce confirmation bias during tax research, others do not and may even enhance this bias. Specifically, a justification requirement decision aid reduced confirmation bias in terms of both the number and perceived importance of selected confirmatory cases, whereas a factor evaluation checklist decision aid either increased the bias (i.e., increased the perceived importance of cases) or had no effect on the bias (i.e., no effect on the number of cases). We suggest several decision aid design features for reducing confirmation bias in tax research.

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