Previous studies suggested roles for curiosity and interest in knowledge acquisition and
exploration, but there has been a long-standing debate about how to define these concepts …

Highlights•Curiosity is a powerful motivator of information-seeking behavior.•People risk
negative experiences to satisfy curiosity.•Empirical evidence reveals parallels between …

The open-ended and internally driven nature of curiosity makes characterizing the
information seeking that accompanies it a daunting endeavour. We use a historico …

Curiosity, creativity, and aesthetics are typically studied separately. The extent to which they
share psychological and neural mechanisms is not well understood, despite all being linked …

Curiosity-driven learning is foundational to human cognition. By enabling humans to
autonomously decide when and what to learn, curiosity has been argued to be crucial for …

Highlights•Explanation-seeking curiosity (ESC) motivates the pursuit of explanations.•ESC is
highly selective: it is not triggered merely by ignorance or uncertainty.•Children can acquire …

Recent years have seen a considerable surge of research on interest-based engagement,
examining how and why people are engaged in activities without relying on extrinsic …

Curiosity–broadly defined as the desire to acquire new information–enhances learning and
memory in adults. In addition, interest in the information (ie, when the information is …

Entomophagy–the consumption of insects–is often rejected by Western society despite its
benefits over traditional animal-based proteins. While several factors have been identified …

Curious information-seeking is known to be a key driver for learning, but characterizing this
important psychological phenomenon remains a challenge. In this article, we argue that …