Dukes Daniel, Audrin Catherine, Clément Fabrice, Mortillaro Marcello
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Campus Biotech, 9 Chemin des Mines, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland.
University of Teacher Education, Vaud, Switzerland.
Sci Rep. 2024 Aug 28;14(1):19949. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-70751-6.
Although there is general consensus concerning the importance and function of interest in our daily lives, there is little agreement about its nature. Four studies of increasing ecological validity (total N = 993) were carried out to compare two different characterizations of interest in terms of the key appraisals involved. The findings indicate that while a two-appraisal model is suitable to explain the interest we can feel towards simple stimuli, a more complex model may better capture the nature of interest in the real world. Further analysis suggested the contrasting previous results could be resolved by arguing that previous models of interest capture different types of interest. This novel finding represents a promising first step towards a more definitive definition of interest, and suggests that while interest may always be related to motivating exploration, learning and general well-being, researchers should be more precise about the type of interest to which they refer.
尽管人们普遍认同兴趣在我们日常生活中的重要性和功能，但对于其本质却几乎没有一致的看法。我们进行了四项生态效度不断提高的研究（总样本量N = 993），以根据所涉及的关键评估来比较对兴趣的两种不同描述。研究结果表明，虽然双评估模型适用于解释我们对简单刺激可能产生的兴趣，但更复杂的模型可能更能捕捉现实世界中兴趣的本质。进一步的分析表明，与之前的结果形成对比的情况可以通过主张之前的兴趣模型捕捉到不同类型的兴趣来解决。这一新颖的发现是朝着更明确的兴趣定义迈出的充满希望的第一步，并且表明虽然兴趣可能总是与激发探索、学习和总体幸福感相关，但研究人员应该更精确地说明他们所提及的兴趣类型。
