Children's Reactions to Novelty: An Experimental Study of "Curiosity Motivation"

Smock, Charles D.; Holt, Bess Gene

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1962.tb05103.x

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“…There is reason to think that surprising or truly novel experiences elicit curiosity. For instance, humans tend to spend more time looking at novel than familiar objects or scenes 33, 34, 35, and novelty-induced exploration appears to depend on the hippocampus 36, 37. Importantly, one study using a scene-viewing task showed that individual differences in participants’ trait curiosity predicted how well participants visually explored the novel scenes [38].…”

Section: Context-based Prediction Errors: a Potential Role Of The Hipmentioning

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How Curiosity Enhances Hippocampus-Dependent Memory: The Prediction, Appraisal, Curiosity, and Exploration (PACE) Framework

Gruber

Ranganath

2019

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Curiosity plays a fundamental role for learning and memory, but the neural mechanisms that stimulate curiosity and its effect on memory are poorly understood. Accumulating evidence suggests that curiosity states are related to modulations in activity in the dopaminergic circuit and that these modulations impact memory encoding and consolidation for both targets of curiosity and incidental information encountered during curiosity states. To account for this evidence, we propose the Prediction, Appraisal, Curiosity, and Exploration (PACE) framework, which attempts to explain curiosity and memory in terms of cognitive processes, neural circuits, behavior, and subjective experience. The PACE framework generates testable predictions that can stimulate future investigation of the mechanisms underlying curiosity-related memory enhancements.

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Section: Context-based Prediction Errors: a Potential Role Of The Hipmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Curiosity Enhances Hippocampus-Dependent Memory: The Prediction, Appraisal, Curiosity, and Exploration (PACE) Framework

Gruber

Ranganath

2019

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Consumer reactions to AI design: Exploring consumer willingness to pay for AI‐designed products

Zhang

Bai

2022

Psychology and Marketing

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Companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to generate promising concepts for new products which are then marketed to consumers as "AIdesigned." Drawing on four studies and follow-up studies, this paper explores consumer perceptions of AI design. Based on the information gap model, the studies determine that, compared with professional-designed products, consumers are more willing to pay for products designed by AI, in which process curiosity plays an intermediary role (Study 1). Crucially, this research also predicts the boundary conditions for the positive effects of AI design. High levels of consumer knowledge lead to an attenuation in consumer curiosity regarding AI design, thereby decreasing the willingness to pay (Study 2), while the product type also has a moderating effect on the influence of the product design sources. Consumers are more willing to pay for utilitarian products designed by AI than hedonic products (Study 3). In addition, we reverify that consumers prefer AI-designed products through a field study (Study 4). Finally, the research sheds light on how to utilize AI to promote the success of new product innovation from a marketing perspective, providing important theoretical knowledge and actionable managerial implications for future research.

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On the interplay of curiosity, confidence, and importance in knowing information

Spitzer,

Janz,

Nie

et al. 2023

Psychological Research

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Curiosity appears to be the driving force for humans to find new information, but despite its general relevance, only a few studies investigated the underlying mechanisms of curiosity. Kang et al. (Psychol Sci 20(8):963–973, 2009) and Dubey and Griffiths (Psychol Rev 127(3):455–476, 2020) reported a relation between curiosity and confidence such that curiosity follows an inverted U-shaped function of confidence, with the highest curiosity on moderate confidence levels of knowing information. Given that replications of findings on curiosity are rare, this study sought to replicate these previous findings in two experiments, with the same stimulus material (Experiment 1) and new stimulus material using COVID-19-related information (Experiment 2). Based on theoretical predictions by Dubey and Griffiths (2020), we extended previous findings assessing the effect of the importance of information for the participant on the relationship between curiosity and confidence. Our findings replicated previous results in both experiments with the highest curiosity regarding information about which participants were moderately confident in knowing. Our extended analyses suggest that if information can be considered as important, then people are most curious about information when having very low-to-moderate confidence in knowing this information. However, if information is rated as rather not important, then curiosity is highest for information with moderate confidence in knowing the information. Together, these results emphasize the modulatory effect of perceived importance on the interplay between curiosity and confidence in knowing information.

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Children's Reactions to Novelty: An Experimental Study of "Curiosity Motivation"

Cited by 22 publications

References 20 publications

How Curiosity Enhances Hippocampus-Dependent Memory: The Prediction, Appraisal, Curiosity, and Exploration (PACE) Framework

How Curiosity Enhances Hippocampus-Dependent Memory: The Prediction, Appraisal, Curiosity, and Exploration (PACE) Framework

Consumer reactions to AI design: Exploring consumer willingness to pay for AI‐designed products

On the interplay of curiosity, confidence, and importance in knowing information

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