Our lab has recently begun curiosity as a personality trait that we can cultivate, which has positive downstream effects on wellbeing and perceived meaning in life....
Relevant Publications
Gross, M. E., & Schooler, J. W. (2025). Smartphone-based program for enhancing curiosity and its associated virtues: a randomized waitlist-controlled pilot study. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1-14.
Gross, M. E., Araujo, D. B., Zedelius, C. M., & Schooler, J. W. (2019). Is perception the missing link between creativity, curiosity and schizotypy? Evidence from spontaneous eye-movements and responses to auditory oddball stimuli. NeuroImage, 202, 116125.
Gross, M. E., Zedelius, C. M., & Schooler, J. W. (2020). Cultivating an understanding of curiosity as a seed for creativity. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 35, 77-82.
Zedelius, C. M., Gross, M. E., & Schooler, J. W. (2022). Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information. Journal of Research in Personality, 98, 104227.