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Three Styles of Curiosity
With the help of Wikipedia, social researchers identified three methods curious people use to learn information.
Our species is known for many things, including our contradictory behaviors. For instance, we like to believe we’re rational creatures who make logical, sensible decisions when the truth is we’re far more emotional and irrational — and no amount of ignoring, avoiding, or bottling our emotions away can change that.
In our reductive investigations of human emotions, researchers have deemed happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise as our six dominant ones. However, they’ve also identified at least 27 distinct categories of emotions that we experience. (Did you catch that? Not just 27 emotions, but 27 categories of emotions.)
Now, researchers are diving deeper into specific emotions to understand their intricacies better. Some are even making careers out of it. Think of Brené Brown, renowned for her research and expertise about shame, and now, there’s Dani Bassett, who has dedicated their career to studying one of my favorite emotions: curiosity.
