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Curiosity does not simply fade with age: the general disposition declines while curiosity aroused by a particular thing you care about actually increases.

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  1. Alan Castel

    Professor of psychology at UCLA

    but as you get older that tends to decline with age which I thought was kind of perplexing because I you know a lot of curious people but we found that levels of state curiosity when I give you some interesting bit of information but I don't give you the answer if it's something you care about that actually increases with age your level of curiosity and learning.

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