ArticleJournal of personality2020
Within-person variability in curiosity during daily life and associations with well-being.
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- Schizotypy and subclinical depression relate to specific trait curiosity dimensions.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Curiosity in a Novel Virtual Reality Scenario and Its Association With Symptoms of Depression: Observational Pilot Investigation.JMIR formative research · 2026Observational
- Role of the striatum in counterfactual information seeking.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- The impact of educational digitalization on life satisfaction: an empirical analysis based on PISA 2022.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Curiosity in younger and older adults: the relationship between information value and memory.Frontiers in cognition · 2026Article
- Dance-like state detection, curiosity, and decentering: A pilot study on artful movement and mindfulness.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Article
- The curious interpretation of novel object recognition tests.Trends in neurosciences · 2025Review
- Interest-Curiosity, Depression, and Peer Relationships Among Chinese Adolescents: A Cross-Lagged, Semi-Longitudinal Study.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Revalidation of the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II (CEI-II) using network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Validation of the I- and D-type epistemic curiosity scale among young Chinese children and implications on early curiosity nurture.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Systematic Curiosity as an Integrative Tool for Human Flourishing: A Conceptual Review and Framework.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024Review
- Character strength patterns, social support and psychological distress in adolescents and young adults with cancer: A multicenter cross-sectional study.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2024Article
- Architectural styles of curiosity in global Wikipedia mobile app readership.Science advances · 2024Article
- Consequences of curiosity for recognition memory in younger and older adults.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- The Protective Role of Curiosity Behaviors in Coping with Existential Vacuum.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Diets and leisure activities are associated with curiosity.PloS one · 2024Observational
- Anxiety and curiosity in hierarchical models of neural emotion processing-A mini review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Review
- Smokers' Curiosity Facilitates Recall of Tobacco-Related Health Information.Health communication · 2023Article
- Rewarded Maze Training Increases Approach Behavior in Rats Through Neurogenesis-Dependent Growth of Ventral Hippocampus-Prelimbic Circuits.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2023Article
- Curiosity, Surprise, and the Recall of Tobacco-Related Health Information in Adolescents.Journal of health communication · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveCuriosity promotes engagement in novel situations and the accruement of resources that promote well-being. An open question is the extent to which curiosity lability, the degree to which curiosity fluctuates over short timescales, impacts well-being.
methodWe use data from a 21-day daily diary as well as trait measures in 167 participants (mean age = 25.37 years, SD = 7.34) to test (a) the importance of curiosity lability for depression, flourishing, and life satisfaction, (b) day-to-day associations among curiosity and happiness, depressed mood, anxiety, and physical activity, and (c) the role of day's mood as a mediator between physical activity and curiosity.
resultsWe observe positive associations among curiosity lability and depression, as well as negative associations among curiosity lability and both life satisfaction and flourishing. Curiosity is higher on days of greater happiness and physical activity, and lower on days of greater depressed mood. We find evidence consistent with day's depressed mood and happiness being mediators between physical activity and curiosity.
conclusionsGreater consistency in curiosity is associated with well-being. We identify several potential sources of augmentation and blunting of curiosity in daily life and provide support for purported mechanisms linking physical activity to curiosity via mood.
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