The seductive lure of curiosity: information as a motivationally salient reward
The seductive lure of curiosity: information as a motivationally salient reward
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.05.014
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
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5
通讯作者：
Murayama, Kou
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作者：
FitzGibbon, Lily;Lau, Johnny King L.;Murayama, Kou
众所周知，人类会寻求非工具性的信息，有时会付出相当大的努力或冒着风险去接受它，例如，“好奇心杀死了猫”。这表明信息在动机上是高度显著的。在本文中，我们首先回顾了最近的实证研究，这些研究证明了好奇心的强烈动机诱惑——人们愿意为非工具性信息付费并冒着触电的风险；询问会产生负面情绪后果的信息。然后，我们认为这种好奇心的诱惑可能反映了一种奖励学习文献中讨论过的动机机制：激励显著性。我们提出了支持这一观点的行为和神经科学证据，并提出了两个需要进一步研究的领域——如何激发信息的激励显著性；以及动机活力的个体差异。
Humans are known to seek non-instrumental information, sometimes expending considerable effort or taking risks to receive it, for example, 'curiosity killed the cat'. This suggests that information is highly motivationally salient. In the current article, we first review recent empirical studies that demonstrated the strong motivational lure of curiosity - people will pay and risk electric shocks for non-instrumental information; and request information that has negative emotional consequences. Then we suggest that this seductive lure of curiosity may reflect a motivational mechanism that has been discussed in the literature of reward learning: incentive salience. We present behavioral and neuroscientific evidence in support of this idea and propose two areas requiring further investigation - how incentive salience for information is instigated; and individual differences in motivational vigor.