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Background:

  • Curiosity drives information seeking, but resolution often involves gradual information accumulation.
  • Understanding how curiosity evolves during this process is crucial for cognitive and affective science.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate dynamic changes in curiosity during information gathering.
  • Examine relationships between curiosity, emotional states, confidence, and behavior.
  • Determine factors influencing the curiosity-confidence relationship.

Main Methods:

  • Evolving Line Drawing Task with participant guesses and viewing choices.
  • Two studies: Study 1 with predetermined timing, Study 2 with participant agency.
  • Analysis of curiosity, confidence, stimulus entropy, and guess accuracy.

Main Results:

  • Curiosity fluctuates dynamically within information-gathering episodes.
  • The curiosity-confidence link depends on stimulus entropy and guess accuracy.
  • Curiosity can be experienced as positive or negative, influencing engagement.

Conclusions:

  • Curiosity is multifaceted and evolves with information accumulation.
  • Curiosity promotes sustained engagement in the discovery process.
  • The value of curiosity lies in the process of exploration and learning.