Results 1 to 10 of about 60,004 (256)
Understanding Motivation in Early Childhood: Disentangling the Links Among Curiosity, Mindset, and Goals [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesChildren’s academic motivation declines with grade, beginning in early elementary school, so a better understanding of young children’s motivation is needed.
Natalie Hutchins, Jamie Jirout
doaj +2 more sources
Studying Dynamics of Human Information Gathering Behaviors Using Social Robots
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 A novel social interaction is a dynamic process, in which participants adapt to, react to and engage with their social partners. To facilitate such interactions, people gather information relating to the social context and structure of the situation. The
Matan Eshed +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Dimensions, Measures, and Contexts in Psychological Investigations of Curiosity: A Scoping Review
Behavioral Sciences, 2022 The study of curiosity as a construct has led to many conceptualisations, comprising of different dimensions. Due to this, various scales of curiosity have also been developed.
Yong Jie Yow +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Self-efficacy in creativity and curiosity as predicting creative emotions
Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2021 Self-efficacy constructs could predict students’ practices and affect in learning the sciences. Researchers have pointed at such constructs as predictors of students’ mathematics achievement and performance.
Wajeeh Daher +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Sillages Critiques, 2023 Although they have often been used as metaphors for the act of writing, pregnancy and childbirth have a long history of being left out of literature itself, especially as diegetic events in the novel.
Maxence Gouleau
doaj +1 more source
Animals in Search of Stimulation and Information: A Review of over 10 years of our Research on Spontaneous Exploration in Rats as a Response to Novelty in Low-Stress Paradigm [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2023 This article comprehensively reviews our studies that analyzed novelty-related behaviors in rats. We developed and utilized techniques and equipment during these studies to ensure our findings' high ecological validity.
Wojciech Pisula, Klaudia Modlinska
doaj +1 more source
Canine Curiosity: What We Do and Don’t Know, and What Human Infants Could Teach Us [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2023 The phenomenon of domesticated dogs looking to humans for information is ubiquitous, yet infrequently observed among other interspecies interactions.
Courtney L. Sexton, Kelsey R. Lucca
doaj +1 more source
Frontiers in Aging, 2021 An enriched environment is effective in stimulating learning and memory in animal models as well as in humans. Environmental enrichment increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in aged rats and reduces levels of Alzheimer-related proteins in ...
Allison N. Grossberg +3 more
doaj +1 more source
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2021 Optimal health care is nearly impossible for patients who have few or no languages in common with their clinicians because it is hard to exchange information and questions about interventions' risks and benefits and about how to motivate good health outcomes.
openaire +2 more sources