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Dealing with complex information with a mindset that is open to confusion

Interest in Complexity

The Impact of Financial Scarcity on Information Avoidance in the Household Game

Closing the information gap: The influence of short vs. long time-to-resolution and positive vs. negative stimuli valence on curiosity and affect

Curiosity and affect: How time-to-resolution and valence of stimuli affect how it feels to be curious

The impact of lacking control: Financial decision making under scarcity

The effects of financial scarcity on economic decision-making: Temporal discounting regarding gains and losses

Do people always want to know? Is the motivation to close the information-gap stronger than the need to avoid harmful information?

The effects of economic priming on ostracizing behavior, guilt, anger, empathy and self-centeredness

Curiosity vs. avoidance: Does knowing about the outcome being positive or negative matter?

How teasers affect expectations and evaluations of curiosity-resolving stimuli

Curiosity or avoidance: How information about positivity/negativity of an outcome affects people's desire to know

Social exclusion and sources: A study focused on empathy and rejection sensitivity traits

To know or not to know: The impact of positive and negative valenced headlines on curiosity and information avoidance

Without you: A study of social exclusion by actors in a real life setting

Better safe than sorry: The role of need for control in the preference for reversible decision-making

Opting in vs. opting out: The effects of regulatory focus on motivation and performance

Is it the taste that tells the tale? The effect of packaging on the taste perception of beverage flavors

Packaging-induced expectations and the tast perception: The role of surprise in the perceived taste intensity

Coming soon: The effects of time on the experience of curiosity in a teaser context

Do people want to know? The impact of positive and negative language in curiosity-inducing communication on curiosity and avoidance motivation

The role of teacher evaluation in dynamic testing and improvements in strategy use in preschool children

The influence of packaging-induced expectancies on reported taste intensity of sweet and sour drinks

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