In natural behaviour, animals actively interrogate their environments using endogenously
generated 'question-and-answer'strategies. However, in laboratory settings participants …

This review aims to clarify four perennial issues surrounding the concept of curiosity: its
nature, conceptual distinction from situational interest, types, and educational implications …

Curiosity is considered to be the essence of science and an integral component of cognition.
What prompts curiosity in a learner? Previous theoretical accounts of curiosity remain …

The psychology of verbal reasoning initially compared performance with classical logic. In
the last 25 years, a new paradigm has arisen, which focuses on knowledge-rich reasoning …

Straight Choices provides a fascinating introduction to the psychology of decision making,
enhanced by discussion of relevant examples of decision problems faced in everyday life …

Durante más de medio siglo un conjunto de teorías han postulado las ventajas del
aprendizaje activo, y las implicaciones de este enfoque para la pedagogía, sin embargo, no …

The cognitive-motivational concepts of curiosity and creativity are often viewed as
intertwined. Yet, despite the intuitively strong linkage between these two concepts, the …

A persistent metaphor in decision-making research casts people as intuitive statisticians.
Popular explanations based on this metaphor assume that the way in which people …

How do we make sense of complex evidence? What are the cognitive principles that allow
detectives to solve crimes, and lay people to puzzle out everyday problems? To address …

Effective curiosity-driven learning requires recognizing that the value of evidence for testing
hypotheses depends on what other hypotheses are under consideration. Do we intuitively …