Perceptual curiosity

That’s the curiosity we feel when something surprises us or when something doesn’t quite agree with what we know or think we know.

• That is felt as an unpleasant state, as an adversity state. 
• It’s a bit like an itch that we nee...

Curiosity was first pictures as an unpleasant state that we were motivated to decrease.

In 1994, George Loewenstein offered a more modern take in his information-gap theory. His theory stated that curiosity was driven from the gap between what you ...

Deprivation Curiosity is when we have a gap in a certain type of information that makes us restless, and in an urgent need for the same. It is focused on the destination.

Example: We see an actor and cannot remember his name, and feel restless and anxious as t...