The Role of Uncertainty in Models of Epistemic Curiosity
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The psychological research strategies of studying epistemic curiosity traditionally consider four factors of motivation to search for new information: the degree of familiarity with the subject, the expecte...
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Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The psychological research strategies of studying epistemic curiosity traditionally consider four factors of motivation to search for new information: the degree of familiarity with the subject, the expected value of information, the cultural framework of tolerance to new information and the features of the material resources of the epistemic situation. A comparison of these models shows that regardless of where the study of curiosity begins — in behavior, in mental processes, in personal characteristics or in interaction with the environment — the place of uncertainty in the conceptual system remains the same. Uncertainty is one of the key characteristics of modern culture, which raises the question of the degree of influence of its experiences on cognitive processes. The purpose of the article is to review foreign studies on the connection of epistemic curiosity with the experience of uncertainty. The article contains the analysis of the four main models of epistemic curiosity and the suggestion of the new (unifying) model, according to which curiosity is a tool for "managing uncertainty" in order to adapt in the most effective way to a complex, unpredictable environment.</span></p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-20fef1715fa14207a8e13ca9dc450f9e2023-02-27T07:59:58ZrusMoscow State University of Psychology and EducationСовременная зарубежная психология2304-49772022-01-0111412713510.17759/jmfp.2022110411The Role of Uncertainty in Models of Epistemic CuriosityA.V. Golubinskaya0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7119-3968National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod <p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The psychological research strategies of studying epistemic curiosity traditionally consider four factors of motivation to search for new information: the degree of familiarity with the subject, the expected value of information, the cultural framework of tolerance to new information and the features of the material resources of the epistemic situation. A comparison of these models shows that regardless of where the study of curiosity begins — in behavior, in mental processes, in personal characteristics or in interaction with the environment — the place of uncertainty in the conceptual system remains the same. Uncertainty is one of the key characteristics of modern culture, which raises the question of the degree of influence of its experiences on cognitive processes. The purpose of the article is to review foreign studies on the connection of epistemic curiosity with the experience of uncertainty. The article contains the analysis of the four main models of epistemic curiosity and the suggestion of the new (unifying) model, according to which curiosity is a tool for "managing uncertainty" in order to adapt in the most effective way to a complex, unpredictable environment.</span></p>https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/jmfp/archive/2022_n4/Golubinskaya |
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