Curiosity or savouring? Information seeking is modulated by both uncertainty and valence.

Curiosity is pervasive in our everyday lives, but we know little about the factors that contribute to this drive. In the current study, we assessed whether curiosity about uncertain outcomes is modulated by the valence of the information, i.e. whether the information is good or bad news. Using a lot...

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Autores principales:	Lieke L F van Lieshout, Iris J Traast, Floris P de Lange, Roshan Cools
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c256d916c101400aa8bb150590fca0192021-12-02T20:14:12ZCuriosity or savouring? Information seeking is modulated by both uncertainty and valence.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257011https://doaj.org/article/c256d916c101400aa8bb150590fca0192021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257011https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Curiosity is pervasive in our everyday lives, but we know little about the factors that contribute to this drive. In the current study, we assessed whether curiosity about uncertain outcomes is modulated by the valence of the information, i.e. whether the information is good or bad news. Using a lottery task in which outcome uncertainty, expected value and outcome valence (gain versus loss) were manipulated independently, we found that curiosity is overall higher for gains compared with losses and that curiosity increased with increasing outcome uncertainty for both gains and losses. These effects of uncertainty and valence did not interact, indicating that the motivation to reduce uncertainty and the motivation to maximize positive information represent separate, independent drives.Lieke L F van LieshoutIris J TraastFloris P de LangeRoshan CoolsPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257011 (2021)
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description	Curiosity is pervasive in our everyday lives, but we know little about the factors that contribute to this drive. In the current study, we assessed whether curiosity about uncertain outcomes is modulated by the valence of the information, i.e. whether the information is good or bad news. Using a lottery task in which outcome uncertainty, expected value and outcome valence (gain versus loss) were manipulated independently, we found that curiosity is overall higher for gains compared with losses and that curiosity increased with increasing outcome uncertainty for both gains and losses. These effects of uncertainty and valence did not interact, indicating that the motivation to reduce uncertainty and the motivation to maximize positive information represent separate, independent drives.
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author	Lieke L F van Lieshout Iris J Traast Floris P de Lange Roshan Cools
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title	Curiosity or savouring? Information seeking is modulated by both uncertainty and valence.
title_short	Curiosity or savouring? Information seeking is modulated by both uncertainty and valence.
title_full	Curiosity or savouring? Information seeking is modulated by both uncertainty and valence.
title_fullStr	Curiosity or savouring? Information seeking is modulated by both uncertainty and valence.
title_full_unstemmed	Curiosity or savouring? Information seeking is modulated by both uncertainty and valence.
title_sort	curiosity or savouring? information seeking is modulated by both uncertainty and valence.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/c256d916c101400aa8bb150590fca019
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Curiosity or savouring? Information seeking is modulated by both uncertainty and valence.

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