Recent research has demonstrated that egocentric biases keep the decision maker from reaping the benefits of additional opinions, concluding that the adaptiveness of advice taking to the information ecology is limited. This research has however focused almost exclusively on advice weighting, thereby largely neglecting advice seeking as an important prerequisite. Across three experiments, we assessed the self-determined sample size of advisory estimates and their subsequent integration with participants’ initial estimates. These experiments demonstrate that both the distance of advice from the decision maker's opinion and heterogeneity of advice trigger advice seeking and a stronger tendency to integrate advice with their own estimates. By introducing a more holistic approach to the investigation of advice taking, our experiments reveal first relations between advice seeking and the subsequent utilization of advice. Consequently, participants appear willing to explore and adapt to the information ecology when given the opportunity. -- Fabian Ache, M.Sc.-Psych. Arbeitsbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftspsychologie Psychologisches Institut Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Schleichstr. 4 72076 Tübingen phone: +49 (0)7071 - 29 - 78336 mailto: fabian.ache@uni-tuebingen.de www: http://www.pi.uni-tuebingen.de/arbeitsbereiche/sozial-und-wirtschaftspsychologie/arbeitsbereich/fabian-ache.html