Background/Objectives: This article sorts out the literatures of traditional information seeking behavior and social information seeking and looks ahead the research direction of information seeking behavior. Methods/Statistical analysis: This study is a study conducted based on previous studies. That is, it is a review paper. Findings: Based on the results obtained from previous studies, it came to the conclusion that more studies on information seeking behavior are needed.

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... tions: The influence of cognitive factors on social information seeking is rare, and the social information seeking model requires a study that fully considers the effects of cognitive factors.