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Liquin: Told the answer would cost them, people wanted it just as much — Fukai Reads
A paper by Emily G. Liquin on curiosity and effort. Across three preregistered experiments with 419 participants, telling people how much effort an answer would cost reliably reduced whether they went after it, yet barely moved how curious they said they felt.
Honda et al.: Measuring Which Options Are Worth Trying by How Much Uncertainty They Remove — Fukai Reads
A paper by Honda and five co-authors at the University of Tokyo proposing the B-EUR model, which formalises the value of trying a candidate option as the uncertainty about action-outcome relations it is expected to remove. Tested through simulation and human experiments (44 participants) on a graph-shape guessing task, the value of trying, enjoyment and choice frequency all followed an inverted U peaking at intermediate generalizability. Outcome discriminability affected choice behaviour but showed no significant effect on subjective ratings. An arXiv preprint posted 6 August 2026, not yet peer reviewed.
