The present study tested whether the perceived academic values of a school moderate whether highly curious students thrive academically. We investigated the interactive effects of curiosity and school quality on academic success for 484 Hong Kong high school students. Chinese versions of the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory, Subjective Happiness Scale, and Rosenberg Self-Esteem scales were a...

This chapter studies the bidirectional causal interactions between curiosity and learning and discusses how understanding these interactions can be leveraged in educational technology applications. First, we review recent results showing how state curiosity, and more generally the experience of novelty and surprise, can enhance learning and memory retention. Then, we discuss how psychology and ...

An imbalance exists between the role of curiosity as a motivational force in nearly all human endeavors and the lack of scientific attention given to the topic. In recent years, however, there has been a proliferation of concepts that capture the essence of curiosity-recognizing, seeking out, and showing a preference for the new. In this chapter, we combine this work to address the nature of cu...

(2013). Curiosity protects against interpersonal aggression: Cross-sectional, daily process, and behavioral evidence. Abstract: Objective Curiosity is the propensity to recognize and seek out new information and experience, including an intrinsic interest in learning and developing one's knowledge. With few exceptions, researchers have often ignored the social consequences of being curious. Met...

CONTEXT Although advertising theories have long viewed curiosity as an intermediate goal to encouraging consumption of a product among previous nonusers, this variable is rarely discussed in psychological theories and its role in smoking uptake has not been addressed adequately. DESIGN AND SETTING Using a longitudinal design, in 1999, we reinterviewed 12- to 15-year-old adolescent never smoke...

OBJECTIVE Curiosity is the propensity to recognize and seek out new information and experience, including an intrinsic interest in learning and developing one's knowledge. With few exceptions, researchers have often ignored the social consequences of being curious. METHOD In four studies using cross-sectional (N = 64), daily diary (Ns = 150 and 110, respectively), and behavioral experimental ...

William Bosworth Castle (1897–1990) spent his entire haematological career at the Harvard Medical Unit and Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital during the golden age of haematology. Castle’s experiments in solving the puzzle of pernicious anaemia by identifying the intrinsic factor are models of clinical investigation and marked a new era in haematology. Castle’s insatiable cur...