Among non-verbal motivating aspects of knowledge production, the modes attention we name wonder, curiosity and fascination stand out. These different are sometimes closely intertwined but can still be fruitfully analyzed as three distinct ways in which encounter approach objects that attract us or want to gain insight into. Wonder, will initiate questions direct toward various conclusions such ...

This paper discusses in layperson’s terms human and computational studies of the impact of threat and fear on exploration and creativity. A first study showed that both killifish from a lake with predators and from a lake without predators explore a new environment to the same degree and plotting number of new spaces covered over time generates a hump-shaped curve. However, for the fish from th...

This inquiry is practical in nature. Researching children’s behavioral problems and family’s communication as a practitioner would give me worthwhile knowledge that I could use for practice. However, Kerlinger and Lee (1999) stated that the primary purpose of empirical research is theory. Solving an applied problem is not a sufficient or an appropriate reason to conduct empirical research. Empi...

Nowadays, robots and virtual agents become companions for humans. They seem to have distinct roles in the Human-Agent Interaction. Thus, when developing a new application, it is judicious to wonder which the better is. In the Robadom project, a homecare robot has to assist elderly at home. The robot provides cognitive stimulation game. We developed StimCards, a cognitive card-based game. The pr...

This paper argues that the concept of primal wonder in P4C, proposed by Thomas E. Jackson, can be seen as a “sprout” or seed intellectual virtue. My understanding his insight is inspired Mengzi’s view moral cultivation and Aristotle’s eudaimonist account virtue ethics. According to Mengzi, all humans possess four innate sprouts virtue, aim education nurture these so they grow up into fully ripe...