The Magic Curiosity Arousing Tricks (MagicCATs) database in Italian younger and middle-aged adults: Descriptive statistics and rule-based machine learning

Epistemic emotions, and in particular curiosity, seem to enhance memory for both the specific information that stimulates the individual's curiosity and information presented in close temporal proximity. Most studies on memory and curiosity have adopted trivia questions to elicit curiosity. However, the amount and range of interest that trivia questions elicit are unclear, and there is no established, universal trivia item pool guaranteed to elicit comparable levels of curiosity across...