Shared striatal activity in decisions to satisfy curiosity and hunger at the risk of electric shocks

Lau, Johnny King L; Ozono, Hiroki; Kuratomi, Kei; Komiya, Asuka; Murayama, Kou

doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0848-3

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“…As a part of mental health, curiosity has a significant positive effect on our cognitive functions such as memory, learning, creativity, attention, subjective well-being, and prevention of psychological disorders. But previous research has shown that probabilistic electric shock, inducing one's stress, will inhabit the risk behavior of relieving the curiosity (Brown et al, 2020;Lau, Ozono, Kuratomi, Komiya, & Murayama, 2020). In our research, higher state anxiety during the COVID-19 time was correlated with the more depressive, fear and anger feeling, and less pleasure feeling.…”

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How anxiety predicts interpersonal curiosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediation effect of interpersonal distancing and autistic tendency

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Cao²,

Zhou³

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With the world-wide implementation of quarantine to suppress the spread of the COVID-19, people, having weathering a hard time, are confronted with an alarming state of mental health. For people who have taken self-quarantine at home for a long time, the anxiety and the new “staying home normality” may undermine their desire to seek information and thus might have negative effects on their curiosity. Here, we explored and examined how anxiety and the effect of quarantine regulations during the public health emergency predict different kinds of curiosity. With 1071 participants, we conducted an exploratory study (N = 570) and a confirmatory study (N = 501), with measures of anxiety, curiosity, interpersonal distancing and autistic tendency etc. There are three main findings in our results: (1) trait anxiety had negatively indirect impact on trait curiosity and the time spent on update of the COVID-19 information, however, no such correlation was found between state anxiety and epistemic curiosity; (2) state anxiety has negatively indirect impact on perceptual curiosity through increasing interpersonal distancing during quarantine; (3) interpersonal distancing and autistic tendency have negatively indirect impact on interpersonal curiosity. These effects suppressed the positive prediction of anxiety to interpersonal curiosity. Our research provides insights for the relationship between quarantine, anxiety and curiosity during the COVID-19.

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Section: State Anxiety Interpersonal Distancing Autistic Tendency supporting

confidence: 39%

How anxiety predicts interpersonal curiosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediation effect of interpersonal distancing and autistic tendency

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Cao²,

Zhou³

et al. 2020

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“…This rational framework of curiosity and the findings that support it strive to explain curiosity using the same computational and algorithmic principles derived from studying reward-based behavior 4,14,36 . Recently, curiosity has been implicated as a necessary core computation for natural and artificial intelligence 37,38 , with information and reward postulated to be the basic fungible currencies of cognition 6,16,36 .…”

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An Energizing Role for Motivation in Information-Seeking During the Early Phase of the COVID- 19 Pandemic

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Marvin²,

Geen³

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Curiosity is a powerful determinant of behavior. The past decade has seen a surge of scientific research on curiosity, an endeavor recently imbibed with urgency by the WHO, which set managing information-seeking as a public health goal during pandemics. And yet, a fundamental aspect of curiosity has remained unresolved: its relationship to utility. Is curiosity a drive towards information simply for the sake of obtaining that information, or is it a rational drive towards optimal learning? We leveraged people’s curiosity about COVID-19 to study information-seeking and learning in a large sample (n=5376) during the spring of 2020. Our findings reveal that curiosity is goal-rational in that it maximizes the personal utility of learning. Personal utility, unlike normative economic utility, is contingent on a person’s motivational state. On the basis of these findings, we explain information-seeking during the pandemic with a rational theoretical framework for curiosity.

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“…We have already conducted one neuroimaging experiment using MagicCATs and validated the effectiveness of the stimuli. In Lau, Ozono, Kuratomi, Komiya, & Murayama (2020), we presented participants with a series of 36 magic trick video clips from MagicCATS to induce feeling of curiosity and asked them to decide whether they would be willing to risk receiving electric shocks to satisfy the curiosity to know the solution of the trick. Selfreported ratings of curiosity for each magic trick was significantly associated with the decision to accept the risk to receive electric shocks on a trial-by-trial basis, indicating that the magic trick videos successfully induced curiosity.…”

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Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs): A novel stimulus collection to induce epistemic emotions

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There has been considerable interest in empirical research on epistemic emotions, i.e., emotions related to knowledge-generating qualities of cognitive tasks and activities such as curiosity, interest, and surprise. One big challenge when studying epistemic emotions is systematically inducting these emotions in restricted experimental settings. The current study created a novel stimulus set called Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs): a collection of 166 short magic trick video clips that aim to induce a variety of epistemic emotions. MagicCATs are freely available for research and can be used in a variety of ways to examine epistemic emotions. Rating data also support that the magic tricks elicit a variety of epistemic emotions with sufficient inter-stimulus variability, demonstrating good psychometric properties for their use in psychological experiments. Keywords intrinsic motivation. epistemic emotions. curiosity. science of magic Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the topic of socalled epistemic emotions. Epistemic emotions refer to a group of emotions which are related to the knowledgegenerating qualities of cognitive tasks and activities (Brun, Doğuoğlu, & Kuenzle, 2008; Muis, Chevrier, & Singh, 2018). These emotions typically include surprise, curiosity and interest. Recent studies have revealed that these epistemic emotions have profound implications for cognitive processing * Hiroki Ozono

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Shared striatal activity in decisions to satisfy curiosity and hunger at the risk of electric shocks

Cited by 104 publications

References 110 publications

How anxiety predicts interpersonal curiosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediation effect of interpersonal distancing and autistic tendency

How anxiety predicts interpersonal curiosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediation effect of interpersonal distancing and autistic tendency

An Energizing Role for Motivation in Information-Seeking During the Early Phase of the COVID- 19 Pandemic

Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs): A novel stimulus collection to induce epistemic emotions

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