When faced with complex choices, people show bursts of exploration before settling into preferred options of higher value.
Source: Neuroscience News, May 22 2019
Research undertaken by Fisher et. al. suggests that searching the Internet for explanatory knowledge creates an illusion whereby people mistake access to information for their own personal understanding of the information.
Source: Fisher, M., Goddu, M.K. & Keil, F.C., 2015. Searching for explanations: How the Internet inflates estimates of internal knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(3), pp.674–687
