New studies question the common belief that the foremost driver of education is the lack of knowledge. Apparently, we want to find out more about things we already know something about, to fill in the gaps. It is the incomplete knowledge that piques our curiosity, not the absence of it.

Read on to find out how to make Russian women curious about you.

How to make people curious about you? A new study provides an insight

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  Do you believe you know the ranch creature closely linked to T-Rex?
• You think you remember who was the American leader behind the trend of blue jelly beans?

Not quite sure?

Then you are you likely to be interested in Ronald Reagan’s taste for glazed sweets or the dinosaur-chicken correlation.

Based on the new research by scholars from the University of California, Berkeley, it happens due to our uncertainly about what we know that attracts our interest and may inspire us to find out more.

The study results, just issued on the web in the periodical Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, contradicts the commonly shared idea that the lack of knowledge is the major driving force of cognition.

Vice versa, it is the gaps in our knowledge that inspire to discover the details, the researchers discovered.

This notion gives a new sense to the Montessori concept of willingness to learn. The Montessori approach encourages kids to be guided by their own normal curiosity.

The intrigue of a mysterious truth

As the senior author of the investigation, Celeste Kidd, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley stated, though it is highly trendy to speak of inquisitiveness as a tactic to enhance acquisition, until now it wasn’t exactly clear how the curiosity itself develops in the mind.

Kidd added that the study suggests the driving force that leads to the interest and education is the doubt when people think they know something but realize they don’t know all the details or what they thought they knew was wrong.

As stated in the study co-lead author Shirlene Wade, a visiting Ph.D. researcher in Kidd’s psychology laboratory at UC Berkeley, an efficient involvement in knowledge acquisition can be provoked by questioning students about the way things work. It enables them to realize what they didn’t know and evokes curiosity the subject.

The driving force that leads to interest and education is doubt.

The ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Makes People Mad

To illustrate this concept, let’s say that people are questioned on the reasons of the climate change, the way a bike functions or on the U.S Constitution definitions of how the laws are enacted.

The students will quickly realize that they only have a partial knowledge of how these things operate. Thus, their interest is piqued, and they’re eventually more open to new information.

On the other hand, topics we are not familiar with, or too familiar with, can stimulate boredom or indifference.

Consider the blockbuster fantasy series “Game of Thrones”. Let’s say you are an admirer and thought that one of the characters would reach the Iron Throne. Then you are more likely to analyze all the key characters and plotting of the series to find what you have missed, to fill in the gaps.

Alternatively, if you were the producer, you would have no reason to be interested.

What drives the curiosity? The experiment

To carry out the experiment, 87 adults has been interviewed electronically for around an hour on 100 detailed questions.

The test was divided into an educational and rating stages.

In the educational stage of the test, in reply to detailed questions each applicant gave not only the answer but also whether they thought the response was accurate.

A rating 1-7 was assigned to the confidence in the truthfulness of the answer, as well as the level of curiosity to find out the actual correct fact.

The test subjects were then given the truthful replies to questions for five seconds and then requested to assess their degree of amazement.

Shocking, yet truthful numbers

Gradually, the interviewees started the testing stage of the survey and responded to identical specific questions, excluding the ones the participants had answered accurately in the stage of learning.

After all the questionnaires were collected, some independent reviewers used unbiased procedures to measure how close each reply was to being precise and calculated the difference between what each respondent expected the response to be comparative to what it really was.
In the acquisition stage, interviewees on average managed to provide 18 correct answers out of 100. In the testing stage, already 69 responses provided by the participants were accurate.

Their interest degrees expressed high and low curiosity, in relation to the subject matter. On the whole, respondents who thought their first deduction was close to the accurate response displayed the most inquisitiveness.

Only a partial presentation arouses interest in new information.

How the curiosity is driven

The experiment has proven that curiosity drives the learning: The people who were the most curious managed to complete the testing phase with higher grades.

The results of the survey discover the particular kind of inquisitiveness that stimulates acquiring knowledge. Moreover, the outcome can help to promote Maria Montessori’s ideas, whose child-centered approach to the willingness to learn is applied to date.

Kidd mentions Maria Montessori’s ideas that we should engage kids with things they are ready to learn.

How to use this knowledge to your advantage in dating?

The same principle could be applied in dating Russian women.

A woman is more curious about you when she already knows something, but doesn’t know all the details.

It’s like “to be continued” story, which helped Scheherazade avoid the fate of her predecessors.

If you drop some interesting facts in your profile, then a woman would be much more interested to inquire about the details, because she assumes she knows something. What we don’t know about things we know drives us to stick around to find out.

Use it to your advantage!

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