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

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Spitzer MWH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10243256 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature