Keywords
electronic networks of practice, expectation confirmation theory, prospect theory, NeuroIS, fMRI
Abstract
Online forums sponsored by electronic networks of practice (ENPs) have become an important platform for technology-mediated knowledge exchange, yet relatively little is known about how ENP participants filter and evaluate the information they encounter on these forums. This study integrates perspectives from expectation confirmation theory, prospect theory, and neuroscience research to explore how ENP forum filtering judgments are influenced when expectations formed on the basis of contextual cues are confirmed or disconfirmed by the examination of solution quality. We summarize six different models of expectation confirmation explored in previous IS literature and report the results of a neuroimaging experiment using functional MRI (fMRI) that paired both positive and negative contextual cues with high- and low-quality solutions on a mock ENP forum interface. Results show that evaluation judgments are strongest in conditions where initial contextual cue judgments are confirmed by examination of solution quality except when the perceived expectation-experience gap is large, providing evidence for an assimilation-contrast model of expectation confirmation. We also found neural activation differences for expectation confirmation vs. disconfirmation and, consistent with prospect theory, differences in filtering behaviors with respect to unexpected gains vs. unexpected losses.
Original Publication Citation
"Information Filtering in Electronic Networks of Practice: An fMRI Investigation of Expectation [Dis]confirmation", Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Edition 2, Volume 23, Pages 491-520, 2022
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Fadel, Kelly J.; Meservy, Thomas O.; and Kirwan, C. Brock, "Information Filtering in Electronic Networks of Practice: An fMRI Investigation of Expectation (Dis)confirmation" (2022). Faculty Publications. 9529.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9529
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Language
English
College
Marriott School of Business
Department
Information Systems Management
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