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Curiosity is more than novelty seeking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2024

Yana Litovsky ,
Samantha Horn  and
Christopher Y. Olivola Open the ORCID record for Christopher Y. Olivola [Opens in a new window]
Yana Litovsky*
Affiliation:
Department of Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck/Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria yana.litovsky@uibk.ac.at https://www.yanalitovsky.com/
Samantha Horn*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA samihorn@uchicago.edu https://www.samihorn.com/
Christopher Y. Olivola
Affiliation:
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA olivola@cmu.edu https://sites.google.com/site/chrisolivola/ Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Abstract

The novelty-seeking model (NSM) does not offer a compelling unifying framework for understanding creativity and curiosity. It fails to explain important manifestations and features of curiosity. Moreover, the arguments offered to support a curiosity–creativity link – a shared association with a common core process and various superficial associations between them – are neither convincing nor do they yield useful predictions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 47 , 2024 , e107
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