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Visual affects : linking curiosity, Aha-Erlebnis, and memory through information gain Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven
Current theories propose that our sense of curiosity is determined by the learning progress or information gain that our cognitive system expects to make. However, few studies have explicitly tried to quantify subjective information gain and link it to measures of curiosity. Here, we asked people to report their curiosity about the intrinsically engaging perceptual 'puzzles' known as Mooney images, and to report on the strength of their aha ...
Subjective well-being as a mediator for curiosity and depression Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Curiosity is a personality trait that is inversely related to depression and positively related to subjective well- being. However, the relationship between curiosity and these two outcomes is still unclear which hampers our general understanding of well-being. Based on research within positive psychology that showed character strengths such as curiosity can indirectly decrease depression, we hypothesized that the inverse relationship between ...
Addressing Self-Injury in Schools, Part 1: Understanding Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and the Importance of Respectful Curiosity in Supporting Youth Who Engage in Self-Injury Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is defined as the deliberate, self-inflicted damage of body tissue without suicidal intent and for purposes not socially or culturally sanctioned. School nurses are often a first point of contact for young people experiencing mental health challenges, and yet they often report they lack knowledge and training to provide care for persons who engage in NSSI. In the first of two parts, this article provides school ...
Curiosity, surveillance and detection in Charlotte Bronte's villette Universiteit Gent
Nuanced aesthetic emotions: Emotion differentiation is related to knowledge of the arts and curiosity. KU Leuven
The ability to distinguish between emotions is considered indicative of well-being, but does emotion differentiation (ED) in an aesthetic context also reflect deeper and more knowledgeable aesthetic experiences? Here we examine whether positive and negative ED in response to artistic stimuli reflects higher fluency in an aesthetic domain. Particularly, we test whether knowledge of the arts and curiosity are associated with more fine-grained ...
Curiosity and fear transformed Universiteit Antwerpen
Thomas Hobbes transforms fear and curiosity from primarily theological to anthropological concerns. Fear and curiosity go from being, most centrally, part of religiousness, or part of worship of God, to part of the explanation for why we are talking about God at all. This transformation is some evidence for a greater naturalizing trend, a more explicit connection of religion to human passions and psychology, and a shift in approaches to ...
Follow your curiosity, you won’t regret it : how disconfirmed expectations will not always result in dissatisfaction Universiteit Gent
The present paper shows that higher curiosity levels are related with higher expectations regarding the product and more negative disconfirmation between expectations and performance of the product. However, satisfying curiosity leads to pleasure so that this negative disconfirmation does not lead to dissatisfaction or regret after product trial.
Making sense together. The cabinet of curiosity as path to reconsider education for all KU Leuven
This paper refers to a project that we as an art school carried out together with the Flemish organisation VVOB in Zambia. The main goal of the project was to equip primary school teachers with the necessary knowledge and infrastructure to deliver basic ‘education for all.’ The paper challenges the implicit instrumentalization of the arts in that approach, but also brings back to the forefront the notion of art as a practice that ‘makes sense ...