Psychological Development and Education ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (3): 427-436.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2022.03.14

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Curiosity on Knowledge in Human: Epistemic Curiosity

ZHANG Aoxue, GAO Jia, WANG Yangyang, GAO Yaru, SI Jiwei   

  1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358
  • Published:2022-05-17

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Abstract: Epistemic curiosity is individuals' curiosity about new knowledge, which can be understood from the perspective of state and trait, among which trait epistemic curiosity is divided into Interest-type epistemic curiosity and Deprivation-type epistemic curiosity. Recent studies have shown that epistemic curiosity is affected by a series of factors such as Feeling of Knowing, gender, individual preference for new information. And epistemic curiosity has profound implications for learning, memory and creativity. In the future, it will be necessary to conduct longitudinal investigations from the perspective of the life-span development, improve the measurement of epistemic curiosity, and further investigate the mechanism of epistemic curiosity's impact on learning, so as to provide some enlightenment for educational practice.

Key words: epistemic curiosity, interest-type epistemic curiosity, deprivation-type epistemic curiosity

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