What is it about?
There is good evidence that when we look inward, we see an unsolved puzzle. This is examined in regard to contemporary theory and research on curiosity -- check it out!
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Why is it important?
It explores self-inquisitiveness from the standpoint of trying to better know the self rather than ulterior motives (e.g., self-presentation strategies) by identifying knowledge gaps in our self-knowledge, and also addresses what it might mean to go from looking inward to looking to define the self in a way that is also self-transcendent.
Perspectives
It explores self-inquisitiveness from the standpoint of trying to better know the self in regard to contemporary work on curiosity (e.g., Lauriola et al, 2015), and does so in a way not really addressed in prior work on self-awareness. It also addresses what it might mean to go from looking inward to looking to define the self in a way that is also self-transcendent.
Dr Jordan Litman
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This page is a summary of: Intrapersonal curiosity: Inquisitiveness about the inner self, Self and Identity, November 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2016.1255250.
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