The consensus distinction characterises curiosity as active seeking of specific unknown information and interest as pleasurable, in-depth seeking in already-known domains¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? The consensus distinguishes curiosity as more active information seeking directed towards specific and previously unknown information. → Donnellan 2021 q2 i? Interest is characterised as more pleasurable, in-depth, less momentary information seeking towards information in domains where people already have knowledge. → Donnellan 2021 (2)

Evidence¶

Donnellan 2021¶

Donnellan, E., Aslan, S., Fastrich, G. M., & Murayama, K. (2021). How Are Curiosity and Interest Different? Naïve Bayes Classification of People's Beliefs. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09622-9

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The article's summary of the consensus view derived from classifier word stems (e.g. "ask", "question", "answer" predicting curiosity); this is the authors' interpretive characterisation of what the discriminative words mean, not a tested comparison.

"This consensus distin-guishes curiosity as more active information seeking directed towards specific and previ-ously unknown information."

Donnellan 2021 (2)¶

Donnellan, E., Aslan, S., Fastrich, G. M., & Murayama, K. (2021). How Are Curiosity and Interest Different? Naïve Bayes Classification of People's Beliefs. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09622-9

q2 · i? · associational · r2

The authors' interpretation of interest-predicting word stems (e.g. "hobbi", "enjoy", "alreadi"); the article presents this as the nature of the non-expert consensus rather than as an experimentally tested result.

"In contrast, interest is more pleasurable, in-depth, less momentary information seeking towards information in domains where people already have knowledge."

Discussion¶

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