Surprise, Curiosity, and Confusion Promote Knowledge Exploration: Evidence for Robust Effects of Epistemic Emotions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Research has started to acknowledge the importance of emotions for complex learning and cognitive performance. However, research on epistemic emotions has only recently become more prominent.
Elisabeth Vogl +7 more
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Investigating epistemic emotions experienced while reading refutation texts through a fine-grained measure of emotion [PDF]
npj Science of LearningThe current study addressed the often-overlooked role of epistemic emotions in refuting misinformation by replicating and expanding on the work of Trevors and Kendeou (2020).
Yi-Lun Jheng +5 more
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Affective Reactions When Learning That Our Answer Is Biased: The Role of Negative Feedback in the Arousal of Epistemic Emotions [PDF]
Europe's Journal of PsychologyThis study investigated how different types of feedback influence emotional reactions in decision-making tasks involving high-confidence errors. The sample consisted of 596 undergraduate and postgraduate university students.
Katerina Nerantzaki +2 more
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When emotion meets reason: the development and validation of EpiCT-CI scale to measure epistemic emotions in critical thinking application and cultural identity constructions [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionEpistemic emotion is a significant concept in education, but traditional scales rarely focus on the status of epistemic emotions in intercultural issues.
Yue Peng
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Epistemic Emotions and Epistemic Cognition Predict Critical Thinking About Socio-Scientific Issues [PDF]
Frontiers in Education, 2021 When thinking critically about socio-scientific issues, individuals’ expectations about the nature of knowledge and knowing, as well as their emotions when these expectations are met or not, may play an important role in critical thinking. In this study,
Krista R. Muis +3 more
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Measuring emotions during epistemic activities: Psychometric validation of the Persian epistemic emotions scale [PDF]
Psihologija, 2023 As there are not enough measurement instruments to assess emotions during epistemic activities, this research aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the epistemic emotions scale among speakers of the Persian language.
Ahvanuiee Mohsen Rezaiee +2 more
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Philosophies, 2022 The view that emotions can provide defeasible justification for evaluative beliefs is widespread in the emotion literature. Despite this, the question of whether epistemic emotions can provide defeasible justification for theoretical beliefs has been ...
Laura Silva
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Modeling the arousal potential of epistemic emotions using Bayesian information gain: a framework for inquiry cycles driven by free energy fluctuations. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Epistemic emotions, such as curiosity and interest, drive the inquiry process. This study proposes a novel formulation of these emotions using two types of information gain derived from the principle of free energy minimization: Kullback–Leibler ...
Yanagisawa H, Honda S.
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Epistemic Emotions and Observations Are Intertwined in Scientific Sensemaking: A Study among Upper Secondary Physics Students. [PDF]
Int J Sci Math Educ, 2023 This study contributes to the understanding of the relationship between emotions and development of scientific understanding by examining (1) how students perform in scientific sensemaking in the context of a three-cycle predict-observe-explain (POE ...
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Epistemic Emotions: a Natural Kind? [PDF]
Philosophical Inquiries, 2014 The general aim of this article is to consider whether various affective phenomena – feelings like the feeling of knowing, of familiarity, of certainty, etc., but also phenomena like curiosity, interest, surprise and trust – which have been labelled ...
Meylan, Anne
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