CogSci 2025

July 31, 2025

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Curiosity motivates information seeking and knowledge acquisition across the lifespan, yet its role in the moral domain remains unexplored. To address this gap, we developed a task to examine how people seek information about real-life ambiguous moral scenarios. Across two experiments, we found that curiosity predicts greater information seeking, regardless of whether the action was seen as morally good or bad. In Experiment 1, we also found that moral goodness was associated with less information seeking, suggesting an asymmetry in how people engage with moral information. Experiment 2 replicated these findings and showed reputational concerns also influenced information-seeking, and that judgments of action justification help explain the link between perceived morality and information-seeking behavior. Together, these results demonstrate the role of curiosity in moral information seeking, and highlight the influence of perceived morality, justification, and reputational concerns in this process.

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