Curiosity motivates us to find new understanding. It fuels learning and helps us persevere to discover new insights about how things work and (most of the time) how we can make things work better. In ...

Do you consider yourself a curious person? Curiosity is a strong desire to learn or know something. But according to researcher Perry Zurn, curiosity is not a singular thing. In fact, there may be at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. When we try to learn something new, our curiosity ...

When Susan Engel, a developmental psychologist at Williams College, decided to spend a few months observing suburban elementary schools, she had a specific goal in mind: to study variations in rates ...

My daughter climbed into the car after her first volleyball game, ponytail unraveling. I launched into a play-by-play: her crisp serves, her quick digs, her intensity. She cut me off: “Dad, can you ...