Priming exploration across domains: does search in a spatial environment influence search in a cognitive environment?

ABSTRACT: Is there a general tendency to explore that connects search behaviour across different domains? Although the experimental evidence collected so far suggests an affirmative answer, this fundamental question about human behaviour remains open. A feasible way to test the domain-generality hypothesis is that of testing the so-called priming hypothesis: priming explorative behaviour in one domain should subsequently influence explorative behaviour in another domain. However, only a limited number of studies have experimentally tested this priming hypothesis, and the evidence is mixed. We tested the priming hypothesis in a registered report. We manipulated explorative behaviour in a spatial search task by randomly allocating people to search environments with resources that were either clustered

SUBMITTER: Anvari F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8371357 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature