Reviews for Exploring the Psychology of Interest

The average rating for Exploring the Psychology of Interest based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-06 00:00:00 Cesar Maya A fine overview of psychological theories of interest (as of 2006). Non-technical and rather brief. Unfortunately, the field is so undeveloped (well, since 100 years of psychological science), that you will get almost no real-life insights into how to develop and keep interest in something.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-12-29 00:00:00 Theodore Biddle Now I have a better grasp on what and why might be interesting. Since that was my whole goal for reading this book, I'd say it fulfilled it's purpose quite nicely. In this book Silvia looks more closely at the idea of interest as an emotion that might arise in case of enjoyable and complex situations with a potential to gain information that can be understood. In other parts the author brings forth theories about what makes some texts more interesting and what are vocational interests, how they can be measured and what do we know or think about how it happens that people have long lasting interests that translate well to a specific type of job or hobby. More here.