A Dynamic Systems Theory of epistemic curiosity

Publication date: August 2019Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 54Author(s): Ahmet SubaşıAbstractThe article offers a unified theory of epistemic curiosity within dynamic systems framework. It focuses on complex motivational dynamics leading to epistemic curiosity preferences, which are complexly determined by a combination of motivational, affective and cognitive sub-systems operating within an epistemic ecology. Each sub-system is delimited and modelled as an interacting dimension of the multidimensional causality of the system. The theory focuses on personal variations rather than population averages and offers a framework for modelling personality-based epistemic curiosity characteristics based on an analysis of epistemic curiosity preferences.

Source: New Ideas in Psychology - January 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research