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Tagged with: Curiosity

CURIOUS ABOUT CURIOSITY RESEARCH?

Are you curious about curiosity research? Here you can listen to the PhD research Lieke van Lieshout explain how she got into curiosity research.

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Written by Jessica Määttä On January 22, 2019 In in the media Tagged Curiosity

Curiosity is a basic biological drive

Curiosity is one of our most fundamental biological drives and it is important for many things we do in our everyday life. Imagine for example that you hear your phone beep in your pocket. Probably, you will feel the urge to check the message right away, even though the message itself likely doesn’t give you a direct reward.

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Written by Jessica Määttä On March 6, 2018 In English Tagged Curiosity, reward

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