Is curiosity good or bad for us? 🧐
Where can we find square trees? 🔲🌳
To find out, listen to this episode of BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind.
In the show, recorded live at the Cheltenham Science Festival, Gosia had the pleasure of discussing the science and practice of curiosity with Claudia Hammond, Matthias Gruber, and the nicest astronaut on Earth, Tim Peake.
Click here to download Gosia's ISRE 2024 Poster on the differences between awe, curiosity and interest.
Just to let you know, posters are not peer-reviewed. There may be errors, and the results may be incomplete!
This is a project in progress. Please get in touch if you have any reflections on how awe is similar to / different from curiosity and interest.
Items and loadings from the 2018 JoP paper:
https://bathpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9S6v5RAlmtgMMN7
Social Schema-Violations (zip archive with pictures from the 2014 PSPB paper)
Non-social Schema-Violations (zip archive with pictures from the 2017 JRP paper)