The psychology of curiosity: A review and reinterpretation.

By George Loewenstein. 1994

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Metrics for Explainable AI: Challenges and Prospects (2018, background): “"Epistemic curiosity" is the general desire for knowledge, a motive to learn new ideas, resolve knowledge gaps, and solve problems, even though this may entail effortful cognitive activity (Berlyne, 1960, 1978; Loewenstein, 1994; see also Litman, 2008; 2010).”
Information seeking, curiosity and attention: computational and neural mechanisms (2013, neutral): “In psychology, research on curiosity surged during the 1960s and 1970s and subsequently waned (for a comprehensive review, see (Lowenstein 1994)), and shows a mild revival in neuroscience in recent years (Kang, Hsu et al.”
Incurious Motives to Seek Information about Potential Threats (2010, background): “Seeking out new information capable of reducing uncertainty is typically attributed to curiosity (Berlyne, 1966; Loewenstein, 1994), a motive that orients individuals to obtain knowledge expected to increase situational interest or improve understanding of something puzzling or complex (Litman, 2008”
Designing website attributes to induce experiential encounters (2003, background): “Curiosity is seen as a motivational variable that represents desire for information (Loewenstein, 1994).”
Stop Clickbait: Detecting and preventing clickbaits in online news media (2016, background): “Clickbaits exploit the cognitive phenomenon known as Curiosity Gap [1], where the headlines provide forward referencing cues to generate enough curiosity among the readers such that they become compelled to click on the link to fill the knowledge gap.”
Interest, Learning, and the Psychological Processes That Mediate Their Relationship. (2002, background): “This perspective on general individual interest in learning has its origins in research that investigated the structure of curiosity (Ainley, 1998; Berlyne, 1962; Beswick, 1971; Hunt, 1971; Loewenstein, 1994) and emphasizes behavior whereby novel, uncertain, or puzzling stimuli are approached in ord”
Interest Development and Its Relation to Curiosity: Needed Neuroscientific Research (2019, background): “Less explicit were Gottlieb et al. (2013), who did not distinguish between interest and curiosity, although they noted that the widely accepted “knowledge gap” definition of curiosity (Lowenstein 1994) had potential limitations for explaining information search.”
Shopping under the influence of curiosity: How retailers use mystery to drive purchase motivation (2016, background): “Differences in discontent were also to be expected, as uncertainty can be unpleasant and increase negative affect (Loewenstein, 1994).”
Crowdsourcing a Large Corpus of Clickbait on Twitter (2018, background): “The manipulative power of clickbait has been attributed to the curiosity gap (Loewenstein, 1994), a gap of knowledge created in a reader’s mind by withholding crucial information from a teaser message.”
Interest and deprivation factors of epistemic curiosity (2008, background): “Epistemic curiosity (EC) is the desire for knowledge that motivates individuals to learn new ideas, eliminate information-gaps, and solve intellectual problems (Berlyne, 1954; Loewenstein, 1994 ).”
Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight (2017, background): “Curiosity is an important concept in many fields, including psychology (Berlyne, 1950, 1954; Loewenstein, 1994), computational neuroscience, and robotics (Schmidhuber, 1991; Oaksford & Chater, 2001).”
Misleading Online Content: Recognizing Clickbait as "False News" (2015, background): “The characteristics of curiosity: its intensity, transience, association with impulsivity, and tendency to disappoint [Loewenstein, 1994] lead to cognitively induced deprivation - a knowledge gap - which motivates exploring activity from the reader.”
Information Avoidance: Who, What, When, and Why (2010, background): “In addition, people sometimes pursue knowledge for knowledge’s sake in search of enlightenment and to quench curiosity (Loewenstein, 1994).”
Understanding the need for novelty from the perspective of self-determination theory (2016, background): “This perspective has been criticized by Loewenstein (1994), supported by two arguments.”
The Latent Structure of Trait Curiosity: Evidence for Interest and Deprivation Curiosity Dimensions (2006, background): “Although curiosity induction remains the dominant theoretical model in contemporary curiosity research, curiosity-reduction models have received renewed consideration as well, primarily inspired by the theoretical work of Loewenstein (1994).”
The benefits of knowing what you know (and what you don’t): How calibration affects credibility (2008, background): “People are motivated to reduce uncertainty (e.g., Loewenstein, 1994), and often outcomes predicted with extreme confidence do more to reduce uncertainty than outcomes predicted with moderate confidence (Keren & Teigen, 2001).”