Curiosity has received increasing attention in the educational literature, yet empirical
investigations have been limited by inconsistent conceptualizations and the use of curiosity …

Interest in the construct of psychopathy as it applies to children and adolescents has
become an area of considerable research interest in the past 5–10 years, in part due to the …

The state of boredom presents a conundrum: When bored, we want to engage with an
activity, but we don't want to engage with whatever is currently available. This conflict is …

Sensation seeking is a trait describing the tendency to seek novel, varied, complex, and
intense sensations and experiences and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such …

It has been hypothesized that sensation seeking and impulsivity, which are often conflated,
in fact develop along different timetables and have different neural underpinnings, and that …

To date, analyses of differences between adolescents' and adults' judgment have
emphasized age differences in cognitive factors presumed to affect decision making. In …

Consistent with social neuroscience perspectives on adolescent development, previous
cross-sectional research has found diverging mean age-related trends for sensation seeking …

Although curiosity is considered to be a critical motivator of optimal classroom learning
among children, little empirical information exists about curiosity's possible roles in adult …

Curiosity refers to the desire for acquiring new information. The aim of this study was to
develop a questionnaire to assess social curiosity, that is, interest in how other people think …

Curiosity is a fundamental part of human motivation that supports a variety of human
intellectual behaviors ranging from early learning in children to scientific discovery …