Counterfactual curiosity in preschool children

FitzGibbon, Lily; Moll, Henrike; Carboni, Julia L.; Lee, Ryan; Dehghani, Morteza

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2018.11.022

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“…Curiosity can arise when looking at objects or the like (Hagtvedt, Dossinger, Harrison, & Huang, 2019). If this attitude of curiosity can be put to good use, then humans will increasingly understand various kinds of concepts in natural phenomena (FitzGibbon, Moll, Carboni, Lee, & Dehghani, 2019;Sakaki et al, 2018). The attitude of curiosity makes people more aware of the truth of the concept (Baniyamin & Rashid, 2016;Mussel, 2013).…”

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“…The curiosity attitude can arise when observing the objects or the like. If this curiosity attitude can be put to good use, then humans will increasingly understand various kinds of concepts in natural phenomena (FitzGibbon et al, 2019;Hagtvedt et al, 2019;Sakaki et al, 2018). The curiosity attitude makes people more aware of the truth of the scientific concept (Baniyamin & Rashid, 2016;Mussel, 2013).…”

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Students’ curiosity profile in excretion system topic taught using authentic inquiry learning

Mouromadhoni

Atun

Nurohman

2019

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Curiosity is a basic important aspect encourages students in finding various information which, in turn, aid them to encompass the concept learnt. This descriptive research aimed at elaborating the curiosity profile of junior high school students in science learning, particularly in excretion system topic who were taught using the authentic inquiry learning. This research was conducted at SMP Negeri 14 Yogyakarta with 32 of eight graders as the subjects. The instrument used was curiosity response questionnaire. The data obtained was analyzed using percentage. The results showed that the average of curiosity achievement obtained was categorized as strong (75%). However, the comparison of implementations between the authentic inquiry learning and the other learning models are needed to get more comprehensive information.

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Students’ curiosity profile in excretion system topic taught using authentic inquiry learning

Mouromadhoni

Atun

Nurohman

2019

JPBI

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“…These counterfactual comparisons can have negative emotional consequences; they can lead to the experience of regret (Loomes & Sugden, 1982). In the current study, we examined a commonly observed yet understudied aspect of counterfactual comparisons: the motivational lure of counterfactual information— counterfactual curiosity (FitzGibbon, Moll, Carboni, Lee, & Dehghani, 2019). Specifically, we found that people are so strongly seduced to know counterfactual information that they are willing to incur costs for information about how much they could have won, even if the information is likely to trigger negative emotions (regret) and is noninstrumental to obtaining rewards.…”

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The Lure of Counterfactual Curiosity: People Incur a Cost to Experience Regret

2021

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After you make a decision, it is sometimes possible to seek information about how things would be if you had acted otherwise. We investigated the lure of this counterfactual information, namely, counterfactual curiosity. In a set of five experiments (total N = 150 adults), we used an adapted Balloon Analogue Risk Task with varying costs of information. At a cost, people were willing to seek information about how much they could have won, even though it had little utility and a negative emotional impact (i.e., it led to regret). We explored the downstream effects of seeking information on emotion, behavior adjustment, and ongoing performance, showing that it has little or even negative performance benefit. We also replicated the findings with a large-sample ( N = 361 adults) preregistered experiment that excluded possible alternative explanations. This suggests that information about counterfactual alternatives has a strong motivational lure—people simply cannot help seeking it.

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“…In sum, counterfactuals constitute a form of mental simulation (Epstude, Scholl & Roese, 2016) in that they are linked to the real world (Rafetseder, Schwitalla & Perner, 2013) while still referring to alternative "imagined" worlds that might have happened in place of the current one (Beck, Robinson, Carroll & Apperly, 2006). Counterfactuality in childhood is a topic of interest today and children themselves show "counterfactual curiosity" (FitzGibbon, Moll, Carboni, Lee & Dehghani, 2019). Take one example of the negative emotion a child experiences when it must give up playing in the sandbox because it has begun raining.…”

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The relationship of counterfactual reasoning and false belief understanding: the role of prediction and explanation tasks

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García-Madruga

2020

Psicológica Journal

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AbstractThe relation between the prediction and explanation of the false belief task (FBT) with counterfactual reasoning (CFR) was explored. Fifty eight 3-5 year-olds received a prediction or an explanation FBT, a belief attribution task and some counterfactual questions of increasing difficulty. Linguistic comprehension was also controlled. CFR highly predicted FBT in the explanation version but not in the prediction one. Additionally, results in the explanation version indicate that CFR underlies achievements prior to the understanding of the representational mind and stimulates the explicitness of the mental domain. This study identifies the conditions under which CFR becomes a fundamental cognitive tool for social cognition. The results obtained contribute to the dialog between the two major theoretical approaches: theory-theory and simulation theory.

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Counterfactual curiosity in preschool children

Cited by 26 publications

References 41 publications

Students’ curiosity profile in excretion system topic taught using authentic inquiry learning

Students’ curiosity profile in excretion system topic taught using authentic inquiry learning

The Lure of Counterfactual Curiosity: People Incur a Cost to Experience Regret

The relationship of counterfactual reasoning and false belief understanding: the role of prediction and explanation tasks

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