Interest—The Curious Emotion

By Paul J Silvia. 2008

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Openness to experience and awe in response to nature and music: Personality and profound aesthetic experiences. (2015, background): “Recently, Campos et al. (2013, p. 49) pointed out that vastness and accommodation resemble the factors that promote interest—novelty and comprehensibility (Silvia, 2005, 2006, 2008)—albeit at much more extreme levels.”
Motivational mechanisms of employee creativity: A meta-analytic examination and theoretical extension of the creativity literature (2016, background): “Creative self-efficacy allows one to choose to initiate and stay the course for creative outputs (Tierney & Farmer, 2002, 2004), and ‘‘interest attracts people to new, unfamiliar things, many of these things will turn out to be trivial” (Silvia, 2008: 58).”
Motivational antecedents to high-tech R&D employees' innovative work behavior: Self-determined motivation, person-organization fit, organization support of creativity, and pay justice (2019, background): “Intrinsic motivation is particularly considered to be crucial for creativity (Amabile, 1996) since it is conducive to persistence (Oldham & Cummings, 1996), positive affect (Silvia, 2008), and novelty (Zhou, 1998).”
Understanding the need for novelty from the perspective of self-determination theory (2016, background): “Silvia (2005, 2006, 2008) suggests that intrinsicmotivation proceeds from two assessments: (a) an individual's assessment of the noveltycomplexity of an event, referring to assessing it as new, unexpected, complex, difficult to process, surprising, mysterious, or obscure; and (b) his or her…”
Cybernetic Big Five Theory. (2015, background): “…to avoiding self-deception, achieving a high level of integration requires paying close attention to interest, as an emotion (Peterson, 1999; Silvia, 2008), because interest indicates the potential to generate new characteristic adaptations that are wellaligned with one’s traits and…”
Beyond cold technology: A systematic review and meta-analysis on emotions in technology-based learning environments (2018, background): “In line with current interest theories (Ainley & Hidi, 2014; Silvia, 2008), interest was included in the ‘curiosity/interest’ category only if it was operationalized as a state-level experience within a single learning session (i.e., situational interest).”
The Nature and Power of Interests (2014, background): “Whereas interests have traditionally been conceptualized in two ways—as situational states (i.e., the “curious emotion” and momentary motivation; Silvia, 2008) or relatively stable dispositions (Low, Yoon, Roberts, & Rounds, 2005)—in keeping with the tradition of vocational psychology, we discuss in”
Are the sources of interest the same for everyone? Using multilevel mixture models to explore individual differences in appraisal structures (2009, methodology): “Many recent studies have shown that novelty complexity and coping potential predict the experience of interest, both in experimental designs, between-person correlational designs, and within- person correlational designs (see Silvia, 2005a, 2005b, 2006a, 2008a).”
Interested Experts, Confused Novices: Art Expertise and the Knowledge Emotions (2013, background): “Interest stems from people appraising an event as high in novelty, complexity, and uncertainty and as high in comprehensibility—things that strike people as new and unusual but also as possibly comprehensible are interesting (Silvia, 2005b, 2006b, 2008).”
Models of Secondary School Students’ Interest in Homework: A Multilevel Analysis (2008, background): “As educators continue to wrestle with the challenges of working with academically unmotivated students (Hidi & Harackiewicz, 2000), there has been a revival of research and theorizing on interest (Eccles & Wigfield, 2002; Hidi & Renninger, 2006; Krapp, 2007; Schiefele, 2001; Silvia, 2008).”
The bored mind is a guiding mind: toward a regulatory theory of boredom (2018, background): “Interest arises in contexts in which the organism feels safe and allows for exploration and engagement (Izard, 1977; Silvia, 2008).”
When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity (2020, positive): “…task intrinsically motivating, they will be more likely to keep the task problems in the back of their minds while they are procrastinating moderately, as their enthusiasm for the task maintains their interest (Parker, Bindl, & Strauss, 2010) and draws their attention to novelty (Silvia, 2008).”
Within-person analyses of situational interest and boredom: Interactions between task-specific perceptions and achievement goals. (2014, background): “While researchers disagree whether interest is an emotion (see Silvia, 2008; Renninger & Hidi, 2011), the present study sided with those who centered on the affective component and define it as such an emotion (Ainley, 2007; Ainley & Patrick, 2006; for other possible conceptualizations of interest,…”
Intrinsic and Prosocial Motivations, Perspective Taking, and Creativity (2011, background): “First, emotion theorists have proposed that when employees are intrinsically motivated, they experience positive affect (e.g., Silvia, 2008).”
Stability and Change in Youths’ Political Interest (2016, background): “Interest in political matters, defined as the degree to which politics arouses citizens’ curiosity (van Deth 1989), has been considered the motivational dimension of politics (Silvia 2008), and has to be differentiated from the”