Effects of Trait Curiosities on the Appraisals of Picture Stimuli: Diversive Curiosity and Specific Curiosity

• NISHIKAWA Kazuji

  Graduate School of Psychology, Kansai University

• AMEMIYA Toshihiko

  Kansai University

Abstract

Affective designs need to take into account the existence of considerable individual differences in people's emotions. In this study, individual differences in appraisal structure of knowledge emotions were addressed. Participants viewed puzzling and intriguing pictures and rated their unintelligibility and consequential feelings of interest and confusion. Rather large individual differences in the relations between unintelligibility appraisals and ensuing knowledge emotions of interest and confusion were found. These individual differences of appraisals were shown to be related to individual differences in trait curiosities by multi-level analysis. On average people with high trait diversive curiosity have tendency to feel more interest when they found pictures more unintelligible. By contrast people with high trait specific curiosity have tendency to feel more confusion when they found pictures more unintelligible.

Journal

• International Journal of Affective Engineering

  International Journal of Affective Engineering 16 (1), 21-25, 2017

  Japan Society of Kansei Engineering

Keywords

• Curiosity
• Appraisal
• Multilevel modeling

Details

• CRID: 1390282680458460032
• NII Article ID: 130005312313
• DOI: 10.5057/ijae.ijae-d-16-00011
• ISSN: 21875413
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ijae/16/1/16_IJAE-D-16-00011/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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