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Oct 14, 2026 42 min

Learning Reinforces Curiosity

from Tea for Teaching Hosted by John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare

Many past guests have emphasized the role curiosity can play in stimulating student learning. In this episode, Yaniv Abir discuss his recent study examining the impact of satisfying initial curiosity on subsequent curiosity about related content. Yaniv is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research at University College London. He is one of the co-authors of a study entitled “Learning Reinforces Curiosity,” which was published earlier this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Show notes and the transcript for this episode may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.

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