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Curiosity as a Function of Confidence and Importance in Knowing Information
2021-11-05
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<p>Curiosity appears to be the driving force for humans to find new information, but despite its general relevance, only few studies investigated the underlying mechanisms of curiosity. Kang et al. (2009) reported that curiosity follows an inverted U-shaped function of confidence, with highest curiosity on moderate confidence levels of knowing information. In addition, they found that the willingness to spend reso...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a19d0e7b-8668-5ec2-8568-1fa3ee86ebff
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- 10.31234/osf.io/dzanq