Online searching can lead to internet fixation without reducing metacognitive confidence

Research has shown that searching for information online can increase a person's likelihood to search for other information online, a phenomenon known as the Internet Fixation Effect. In the current study, we conducted four experiments examining the boundary conditions of the Internet Fixation...

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Vydané v:Cognition Ročník 266; s. 106329
Hlavní autori: Bittner, Dana-Lis, Storm, Benjamin C.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.01.2026
Predmet:
Adult
Female
Humans
Information Seeking Behavior
Internet
Internet fixation
Judgment
Male
Metacognition
Metacognition - physiology
Online searching
Transactive memory
Young Adult
Online searching
Transactive memory
Metacognition
Internet fixation
ISSN:0010-0277, 1873-7838, 1873-7838
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Shrnutí:Research has shown that searching for information online can increase a person's likelihood to search for other information online, a phenomenon known as the Internet Fixation Effect. In the current study, we conducted four experiments examining the boundary conditions of the Internet Fixation Effect and whether it can be attributed, at least in part, to how online searching affects metacognitive judgments. We replicated the Internet Fixation Effect but failed to find any evidence that it can be attributed to participants becoming less confident in what they know and can access internally. Instead, we interpret our results as suggesting that the Internet Fixation Effect may be better explained by participants becoming more habitually reliant on the Internet as a transactive memory partner within the context of an increasingly integrated and extended memory system. •Online searching can increase the likelihood of future online searching.•This effect was observed both within and between topics of information.•Increased online searching does not appear to be driven by reduced confidence.•Internet Fixation may reflect increased habitual use of a transactive memory partner.
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ISSN:0010-0277
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DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106329