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Showing 1 to 20 of 475 for “"Curiosity"”.
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The Curiosity that is Curiosity: A Psychoanalytic Conceptual-Clinical Study
Curiosity is central to the psychoanalytic endeavour, yet there has been little development of it as a psychoanalytic concept. As an internal experience it is not readily objectively identified. Alternatively it is possible to identify and operationalise defences against it. My approach is based on …
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Secondary music educators' curiosity dimensions and perceptions of curiosity in the classroom
… descriptive study used a survey to examine the curiosity dimensions of secondary music educators (SMEs) and their perceptions of curiosity and creativity in student learning. Participants responded to a curiosity measure, the Five Dimensions of Curiosity Scale Revised (Kashdan et al., 2020), …
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Curiosity driven search experiences
… hours after a long day at work may do so out of curiosity, to relax or for fun (e.g. exploring for the experience). Studies have shown that classical information seeking (IS) and interactive information retrieval models (IIR) have failed to represent them because they were created observing …
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Curiosity Killed the Cat: Investigating a Link between Curiosity and Risk-Taking Propensity
<p>Curiosity, or the drive for information and experiences that motivates exploration, plays a role in intellectual development. Curiosity is perhaps essential to education and intellectual achievement, but curiosity research is limited. Curiosity has been thought a motivation for learning and a …
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Curiosity: philosophy and the politics of difference
<p>This dissertation takes the concept of curiosity, typically understood as a purely epistemological issue, and investigates its political stakes. I argue that curiosity is not only an underappreciated method of philosophy but also a critical practice for building inclusive political communities. …
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Curiosity and Gifted Identification: A Mixed Methods Study
… designed to explore the link between epistemic curiosity and giftedness, in order to provide an additional potentially non-biased assessment to contribute to gifted identification "body of evidence" files for underrepresented and underserved populations. Students of color and students of lower …
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Attachment in donor conception: curiosity, search, and contact
The student, Elizabeth Lozano, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-07-20 at 12:52.
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The Expectations, Experience, and Consequences of Curiosity Resolution
… contributes to a better understanding of curiosity resolution. I investigate the premise that the experience of curiosity resolution is influenced both by the fact that curiosity is resolved, as well as how it is resolved. While the outcome associated with curiosity resolution can be …
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The relationship between environmental setting and curiosity in children.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1966. M.C.P.
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Harnessing curiosity, interest, and empathy in the college chemistry classroom
… UV intervention was implemented to increase curiosity, a predictor of increased learning and retention, of three student cohorts going through general and organic chemistry. Based on a preliminary analysis of Cohorts 1 and 2, students exposed to the multi-semester intervention perform a half …
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Influencing child care social work: the curiosity of an experienced practitioner
… and young people I helped care for, piqued my curiosity and desire to learn; I set out on a knowledge quest to better understand the needs of these children and for ideas about how to apply that knowledge in ways that would be beneficial to them. The knowledge quest led to a traditional PhD …
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From Curiosity to Controversy: American Perception of Japanese Immigrants, 1853-1924
… immigrants on the West Coast transformed curiosity into anxiety. My paper traces this evolution of perception from 1850 to 1924, arguing that shifting views of Japan and its people reflected America’s ethnocentric notions of civilization and racial hierarchy. Using federal and state …
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Art Response to Confusion, Uncertainty, and Curiosity During Group Art Therapy Supervision
… supervision thus in this study the variables of curiosity and psychological mindedness were analyzed. Utilizing art making as a tool to understand emotions in response to working with clients therapeutically provides both an implicit, internal focus on the self in relation to others that is then …
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Desire, Curiosity, and the Search for Truth in Proust, Moreno, and Bechdel
<p>Marcel Proust’s influence on twentieth century literature is broad and has been well documented. This dissertation attempts a comparative reading of <em>À la recherche du temps perdu</em> that places it in contrast with Colombian writer Marvel Moreno’s 1987 novel, <em>En diciembre llegaban las …
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Effects Of Curiosity On Socialization-Related Learning And Job Performance In Adults
Although the significance of curiosity in motivating and directing learning has received substantial scholarly support, little information exists about curiosity's importance in adult learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate curiosity's possible relevance in an adult learning context, …
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Curiosity and Collection in the Constcamer Paintings of Frans II Francken (1581-1642)
… and intellectual context of early modern curiosity culture and its discursive manifestation in posticonoclastic Antwerp. A morally fraught desire associated with Eve and the Fall, curiosity also drives the collector’s acquisition of knowledge and objects; “curiosity” shares its Latin …
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Taking the road less travelled: Exploring the link between curiosity and resilience with 1NZSAS
… for learning and thriving. This research unveils curiosity as a vital enabler for resilience. The relationship is studied in the context of resilience as a holistic, multifaceted and developable capability. The primary aim of this research is to understand ‘what goes right’ for individuals who …
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