Curiosity, Surprise, and the Recall of Tobacco-Related Health Information in Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: A key goal of health communications designed to prevent smoking initiation during adolescence is for the tobacco-related information to be retained in memory beyond immediate message exposure. Here, we test the role for epistemic emotions, specifically curiosity and surprise, in facilitating memory for tobacco-related health information. Participants (n = 294 never-smoking adolescents, ages 14-16 years) performed a trivia guessing task wherein they guessed the answers to general trivia and smoking-related trivia questions. A subset of participants (n = 154) completed a surprise trivia memory task one week later and answered the previously viewed questions. Results indicate that curiosity about the answers to smoking-related trivia is associated with more accurate recall of sm

SUBMITTER: Lyew T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10330854 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature