Student Engagement: The Gap Theory of Curiosity

How do we ignite curiosity in our students about the academic content we are teaching? In 1994, a Carnegie Mellon behavioral economist named George Loewenstein published a paper espousing a theory of curiosity. According to Loewenstein, curiosity is when we feel a gap between what we know and what we want to know. This "knowledge gap" causes a pain like an itch. Like any other itch, we feel highly motivated to alleviate that pain - only in this case by filling the gap with knowledge.

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