Epistemic Curiosity in Kea Parrots and Human Children.

Gabriella E Smith, Megan L Lambert, Eliza Swindell, Jan M Engelmann, Christoph J Völter

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Article in Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Gabriella E SmithComparative Cognition, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-6351

Megan L LambertComparative Cognition, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3618-7260

Eliza SwindellDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8281-663X

Jan M EngelmannDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5139-0289

Christoph J VölterComparative Cognition, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8368-7201

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Both human children and animals seek information following a violation-of-expectation event, but little research suggests the latter do so for the sake of it. In this preregistered experiment, we compared epistemic curiosity-the pursuit of information for its own sake-in kea parrots (

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childrencuriosityepistemic curiosityinformation seekingkea parrotviolation-of-expectation

Identifiers

PMID41069346

DOI10.1162/OPMI.a.34

PMCPMC12506928

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