Exploring the Psychology of Interest

By Paul J Silvia. 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Beauty as an Emotion: The Exhilarating Prospect of Mastering a Challenging World (2008, background): “The proposed explanatory framework leads to a more precise understanding of the phenomenology of beauty and enables us to locate beauty relative to other aesthetic emotions, such as interest (Silvia, 2006) and awe (Keltner & Haidt, 2003).”
Origins of Purpose in Life: Refining our Understanding of a Life Well Lived (2009, background): “Learning and growing are inevitable by-products of being curious and exploratory (for a review, see Kashdan, 2009; Silvia, 2006).”
Students' achievement values, goal orientations, and interest: Definitions, development, and relations to achievement outcomes (2010, background): “…is a relatively stable evaluative orientation towards certain domains ; situational interest is an emotional state aroused by specific features of an activity or a task with physiological , subjective , goal , and behavioral components ( Hidi , 2000 ; Renninger , 2000 ; Silvia , 2005 , 2006 ) .”
Do People Prefer Curved Objects? Angularity, Expertise, and Aesthetic Preference (2009, background): “…interesting ways: relative to experts, novices prefer simple works (Axelsson, 2007; Hekkert & van Wieringen, 1996; Locher, Smith, & Smith, 2001; Silvia, 2006a), scan visual art for what it depicts rather than for its overall composition (Locher, 2006), and prefer representational art to…”
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.”
Towards a neuroscience of active sampling and curiosity (2018, unknown): “99 , Elsevier. www.nature.com/nrn R E V I E W S systematically build on knowledge domains they have some familiarity with and thereby develop lifelong interests and skills 15,19 .”
Shivers and Timbres (2011, background): “Not surprisingly, openness to experience predicts people’s interest in and engagement with creative and aesthetic pursuits (Silvia, 2006, in press-a; Silvia, Nusbaum, Berg, Martin, & O’Connor, 2009), so it seems likely that people high in openness have chills more often by virtue of their deeper…”
Emotion Theory and Research: Highlights, Unanswered Questions, and Emerging Issues (2009, background): “Elaboration and empirical support for principles 1–6 can be found in the following sources and their reference lists (Ackerman et al. 1998; Izard 2002, 2007a; Izard et al. 2008a,b,c; Silvia 2006).”
Appraisal components and emotion traits: Examining the appraisal basis of trait curiosity (2008, methodology): “In an analogous study (Silvia, 2006a), experts and novices in the arts differed quantitatively in appraisals*experts found complex art more comprehensible and thus more interesting*but not qualitatively.”
Happiness at work. (2010, unknown): “In organizational behavior, interest in a task has been considered in research on intrinsic motivation, flow and job design, but there is more to be learned about how immediate task characteristics, person characteristics, and their match interact to create and sustain interest during task performan”
Interest and Identity Development in Instruction: An Inductive Model (2009, background): “…to reengage particular disciplinary content (science, chess, soccer; henceforth, content2) over time and the psychological state that accompanies this engagement (cf. Hidi & Renninger, 2006; see also Ainley, 2006; Alexander, 2004; Dewey, 1913; Krapp, Hidi, & Renninger, 1992; Silvia, 2006).”
On boredom: Lack of challenge and meaning as distinct boredom experiences (2011, unknown): “…(e.g., Csikszentmihalyi, 2000 Dahlen et al., 2004; Farmer & Sundberg, 1986; Harris & Segal, 1985; Vodanovich & Kass, 1990), interest or engagement (e.g., Fisher, 1998; Kanevsky & Keighley, 2003; Sansone, Weir, Harpster, & Morgan, 1992; Silvia, 2006), or fun (e.g., Smith, Wagaman, & Handley, 2009).”
From everyday emotions to aesthetic emotions: towards a unified theory of musical emotions. (2013, background): “Novelty in the music may surprise the listener (Berlyne 1971), which may be followed by interest if the music is comprehensible (Silvia, 2006).”
Artistic Training and Interest in Visual Art: Applying the Appraisal Model of Aesthetic Emotions (2006, background): “Appraisal research suggests that interest is founded on two appraisals: an appraisal of something as new and complex, and an appraisal of something as comprehensible (Silvia, 2005b, 2005c, 2006a).”
Interest—The Curious Emotion (2008, background): “Within-person correlational studies show that appraisals of complexity and understandability predict the experience of interest (Silvia, 2008; Turner & Silvia, 2006).”
Interest Development and Its Relation to Curiosity: Needed Neuroscientific Research (2019, background): “The most ardent supporters of the synonymous position have been Silvia and his colleagues (e.g., Kashden and Slivia 2009; Silvia 2006).”
Disentangling Curiosity: Dimensionality, Definitions, and Distinctions from Interest in Educational Contexts (2014, background): “On the one hand, the terms curiosity and interest are frequently used interchangeably, as two words describing the same construct (Ainley 1987; Kashdan 2004; Silvia 2006).”
A dimensional analysis of creativity and mental illness: Do anxiety and depression symptoms predict creative cognition, creative accomplishments, and creative self-concepts? (2010, background): “People who find behavioral novelty and variability rewarding will have a motivational architecture that promotes approaching new, unusual things (Silvia, 2006).”
The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II: Development, Factor Structure, and Psychometrics (2009, background): “Without an ability to handle appraised novelty–complexity , curiosity and exploration is squelched with avoidance often serving as the replacement (Kashdan, 2007; Silvia, 2006).”