Curiosity and Interest: The Benefits of Thriving on Novelty and Challenge

By T. Kashdan, Paul J Silvia. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Whether highly curious students thrive academically depends on perceptions about the school learning environment: A study of Hong Kong adolescents (2007, background): “These variables share a great deal of conceptual overlap and based on how they are measured, are often interchangeable (Kashdan 2004a, b; Kashdan and Silvia, in press; Silvia 2006).”
Homo Curious: Curious or Interested? (2019, background): “Such confusion may have been exacerbated by quantitative measurements of both curiosity and situational interest (Kashdan and Silvia 2009; Alexander and Grossnickle 2016) (see Table 2 in Appendix).”
The Teasing Effect: An Underappreciated Benefit of Creating and Resolving an Uncertainty (2018, background): “This analysis is consistent with prior research that views curiosity as a feeling of interest, which fits in the larger scheme of positive emotions (Kashdan and Silvia 2009; Silvia 2008).”
Science and Scientific Curiosity in Pre-school—The teacher's point of view (2013, background): “Overall, curiosity is considered a multidimensional construct represented by cognitive, physical and social factors (Reio et al., 2006), it can emerge from both social and non-social stimuli, and it has a profound influence on one’s well-being (Kashdan & Silvia, 2009).”
The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people (2018, background): “First, any measure of curiosity must distinguish between a general fascination with new information and experiences that are pleasurable (Kashdan & Silvia, 2009) from the intrinsic desire to resolve an information gap (Loewenstein, 1994).”
Psychological Flexibility as a Fundamental Aspect of Health (2010, background): “…(Izard, 1977; McCrae & Costa, 1997); they show a willingness to make room for the positive and negative feelings that often arise when confronting novel, complex, uncertain, and unpredictable stimuli such that they engage rather than avoid (Kashdan & Silvia, 2009; Silvia & Kashdan, 2009).”
The effects of perceived relevance of travel blogs' content on the behavioral intention to visit a tourist destination (2014, background): “Future research may consider the effects of other emotional responses , such as curiosity, excitement or arousal, derived from surfing blogs (Kashdan & Silvia, 2009; Vogt & Fesenmaier, 1998).”
Taking "Fun and Games" Seriously: Proposing the Hedonic-Motivation System Adoption Model (HMSAM) (2012, background): “…the human-system interaction (Agarwal & Karahanna, 2000; Lim et al., 2005; Sweetser & Wyeth, 2005; Webster & Ho, 1997)—leading a user to desire to repeat that excitement through further engagement (Kashdan et al., 2004; Kashdan & Silvia, 2009), which in turn naturally results in increased BIU.”
Understanding the need for novelty from the perspective of self-determination theory (2016, background): “When individuals experience novel activities, people seek to share it with others and this process increases their intrinsic motivation and relatedness (Kashdan & Silvia, 2009).”
New Look at Social Support: A Theoretical Perspective on Thriving through Relationships (2014, background): “…emotions such as excitement, enthusiasm, and curiosity (emotions elicited or amplified by RC support) to psychological and physical health (Cohen & Pressman, 2006; Fredrickson, 2000; Kashdan, McKnight, Fincham, & Rose, 2011; Kashdan & Silvia, 2009; Pressman & Cohen, 2005; Pressman et al., 2009).”