Interest and Interests: The Psychology of Constructive Capriciousness

By Paul J Silvia. 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Affective outcomes in superficial and intimate interactions: Roles of social anxiety and curiosity (2006, background): “Theoretical models of curiosity are quite speciWc, positing that curiosity is induced and maintained by these speciWc stimuli properties (Berlyne, 1960, 1971; Silvia, 2001).”
Psychological resilience and positive emotional granularity: examining the benefits of positive emotions on coping and health. (2004, background): “, Brown & Ryan, 2003); interest diversifies knowledge, cognitive skills, and experiences, thereby cultivating competencies useful for problem solving (Izard, 1977; Silvia, 2001); and hope allows one to stay open to new information and motivates sustained effort in the face of adversity (for a review”
Affective Value in the Predictive Mind (2017, background): “Later in life, emotion theorists emphasize the centrality of the emotion of interest, for development and beyond (Izard 2007; Silvia 2001).”
The Four-Phase Model of Interest Development (2006, background): “, 1983), and the psychology of constructive capriciousness (Silvia, 2001).”
Origins of Purpose in Life: Refining our Understanding of a Life Well Lived (2009, background): “This expansion process can lead to interests or passions, defined as reliable intentionally sought after sources of joy and meaning (Silvia, 2001; Vallerand et al., 2003).”
Entertainment is Emotion: The Functional Architecture of the Entertainment Experience (2008, background): “…neglected in emotion literature (Hidi & Baird, 1986), interest presently enjoys a reawakening (Ainley, Hidi, & Berndorff, 2002; Ellsworth, 2003; Silvia, 2001; Tan, 2000), with most emotion researchers agreeing that interest is an emotion, and some that it is a basic emotion (Frijda, 1986;…”
Curiosity and Exploration: Facilitating Positive Subjective Experiences and Personal Growth Opportunities (2004, background): “vide immediate rewards, help people discover long-term interests (Silvia, 2001), and serve as an adaptive defense against adversity.”
Lines of Practice: A Practice-Centered Theory of Interest Relationships (2011, background): “Psychologists would describe David as having an individual interest ( Hidi & Renninger, 2006 ; Hidi, Renninger, & Krapp, 2004 ; Krapp, Hidi, & Renninger, 1992 ; Silvia, 2001 , 2006 ; Valsiner, 1992 ) in model rocketry, by which they mean that David has a particular relationship to the topic ”
Learning and exploration in action-perception loops (2013, background): “Psychologists have found that curiosity, or interest, can vary greatly both between and within individuals (Silvia, 2001, 2006).”
The role of discrete emotions in health outcomes: A critical review (2007, background): “Interest/curiosity According to emotions writers, interest is the state that dominates consciousness in secure environments appraised as offering novelty and possibility (Consedine et al., 2004b; Izard, 1977; Silvia, 2001); the term is used synonymously with curiosity in many instances (Fredrickson,”
Psychological Flexibility as a Fundamental Aspect of Health (2010, background): “When people feel open and curious, they capitalize on opportunities to find meaning in their actions and in turn, expand the self (Higgins, 2006; Kashdan & Steger, 2006; Silvia, 2001).”
Emotional Responses to Art: From Collation and Arousal to Cognition and Emotion (2005, background): “Participants viewed pictures taken from books and journals of modern “visual poetry”; the styles included concrete poetry, asemic writing, automatic art, and typographic art (e.g., Harris, 2001; Huth, 1990; Morin, 2003; Selby, 2003; Topel, 2002).”
Process Account of Curiosity and Interest: A Reward-Learning Perspective (2018, background): “Indeed, previous theoretical and empirical work on curiosity and interest has provided critical insights into these mechanisms (e.g., Hidi and Renninger 2006; Loewenstein 1994; Silvia 2001), leading to greatly improved understanding of the roles or curiosity and interest in various educational issue”
Was Hercules Happy? Some Answers from a Functional Model of Human Well-being (2009, background): “From an appraisal-theoretical point of view, Silvia ( Silvia 2001, 2005; Turner and Silvia 2006) has proposed that interest involves an appraisal of novelty‐complexity, followed by an appraisal of coping potential.”