Tracking Curious Minds: A Novel Approach to Examining State and Trait Determinants of Curiosity-Induced Information Seeking and Memory Recall

To examine how state curiosity relates to information seeking, individual differences, and memory, we developed a novel curiosity-invoking paradigm (the "Curiosity Q&A Task"). We validated the paradigm by identifying curiosity-related changes in question-asking behavior that correlated with personality-trait measures (e.g., openness to experience) and memory for information obtained through inquiry.