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Research into curiosity and exploration concerns itself primarily with describing and explaining exploratory behavior in terms of general laws. To do this, researchers typically rely on formal categories that allow the formulation of general statements independent of the particular goals or specific content of behavior and experience. This results, however, in the inadequate treatment, if not the complete exclusion, of important research questions. This applies, for example, to special cases of exploratory behavior as well as to the analysis of coherent sequences of exploratory actions. For instance, why would some individuals leave a situation that most people find stimulating, to seek out a situation that most people find rather dull (mineral collectors in a stretch of rocky desert)? Or how can we explain the tenacity and regularity with which individuals pursue certain forms of exploration involving great exertion and resulting in a gradual extension of competence?
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Krapp, A. (1994). Interest and Curiosity. The Role of Interest in a Theory of Exploratory Action. In: Keller, H., Schneider, K., Henderson, B. (eds) Curiosity and Exploration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77132-3_6
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