People are more likely to explore new places if they think they’ll learn a lot or if the place feels really new and different — and both of these reasons matter on their own.

From: Contributions of expected learning progress and perceptual novelty to curiosity-driven exploration

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People are more likely to explore new places if they think they’ll learn a lot or if the place feels really new and different — and both of these reasons matter on their own.

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Humans are more likely to select new environments for exploration when those environments offer higher expected learning progress and greater perceptual novelty, with each unit increase in expected learning progress associated with a 27% increase in selection odds (OR = 1.27, 95% CI [1.07, 1.51]) and each unit increase in perceptual novelty associated with a 139% increase in selection odds (OR = 2.39, 95% CI [1.81, 3.19]), indicating that both factors independently influence exploratory decision-making.

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