Want to Change for the Better? Get Curious
I've always been curious. Maybe that's why I'm a journalist. I drive my husband and son crazy when we see speeding ambulances. I've even followed sirens. But now it looks like it might be a good thing. A new study has found that curiosity can change behavior for the better. Researchers found that curiosity could potentially help people make smarter and healthier decisions, according to newswise.com. "Our research shows that piquing people's curiosity can influence their choices by steering them away from tempting desires, like unhealthy food or taking the elevator instead of the stairs, or even toward making less tempting choices, like buying more vegetables instead of the Haagen-Daz," study authors write. They conducted four experiments designed to test how raising people's curiosity might affect their choices. In each case, arousing it resulted in a noticeable behavior change. The experiments were as simple as offering two kinds of f...