Surprise, Curiosity, and Confusion Promote Knowledge Exploration: Evidence for Robust Effects of Epistemic Emotions [PDF]
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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Measuring emotions during epistemic activities: Psychometric validation of the Persian epistemic emotions scale [PDF]
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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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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Investigating epistemic emotions experienced while reading refutation texts through a fine-grained measure of emotion [PDF]
The 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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The Epistemic Role of Outlaw Emotions
Outlaw emotions are emotions that stand in tension with one’s wider belief system, often allowing epistemic insight one may have otherwise lacked. Outlaw emotions are thought to play crucial epistemic roles under conditions of oppression.
Laura Silva
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Emotions as Pragmatic and Epistemic Actions [PDF]
This paper explores the idea that emotions in social contexts and their intentionality may be conceived of as pragmatic or epistemic actions. That is, emotions are often aimed at achieving certain goals within a social context, so that they resemble ...
Wendy eWilutzky
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Epistemic Emotions and Epistemic Cognition Predict Critical Thinking About Socio-Scientific Issues [PDF]
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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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]
IntroductionEpistemic 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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THE ROLE OF EPISTEMIC BELIEFS AND EPISTEMIC EMOTIONS IN ONLINE LEARNING [PDF]
Objectives. The aimed objectives of this study are 1) to determine which factors of epistemic beliefs are significant in an online course, 2) to determine if positive or negative epistemic emotions are significant in an online course, and 3) to identify ...
Diego Oswaldo CAMACHO VEGA
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Epistemic Emotions: The Case of Wonder
In this paper I discuss the reasons for which we may consider wonder an epistemic emotion. I defend the thesis for which a specific type of wonder is aporia-based and that since it is aporia-based, this wonder is epistemic.
Laura Candiotto
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